http://www.greenkampong.com Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:35:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/solar-power-enters-the-plastic-age/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/solar-power-enters-the-plastic-age/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:17:04 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=4459 Cheaper and lighter compared to its more expensive, cumbersome silicon cousin, plastic photovoltaics (PV) could herald a revolution in the solar power market, according to a UK solar panel expert. “Plastics are much cheaper to process than silicon. In principle the devices we’ve been making might be very, very cheap and cover large areas,” said [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/solar-power-enters-the-plastic-age/feed/ 2 http://www.greenkampong.com/design/living-rooms-a-home-for-the-future/ http://www.greenkampong.com/design/living-rooms-a-home-for-the-future/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:39:01 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3943 This looks amazing!  Perhaps one day we will see such homes in Asia and Singapore… Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, a solar-powered home that won the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, provides a glimpse into future living. Take a tour through the home and listen to Joe Wheeler, one of three primary faculty members who worked on the [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/design/living-rooms-a-home-for-the-future/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/hdb-makes-single-largest-purchase-of-solar-panels/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/hdb-makes-single-largest-purchase-of-solar-panels/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:10:51 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3762 SINGAPORE: The Housing and Development Board HDB has made its single largest purchase of solar panels to date. The panels bought from Renewable Energy Corporation are worth about S$2.3 million. They will be installed in the 4th quarter of this year at six HDB precincts covering about 3,000 residential units. The precincts are Jurong, Aljunied, [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/hdb-makes-single-largest-purchase-of-solar-panels/feed/ 0