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Aiming to squeeze the amount--and cost--of energy used to cool homes and businesses in warm-weather areas, ClimateWell, based in balmy Hägersten, south of Stockholm, is marketing a novel solution: solar-powered air conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooled By Sun And Salt | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...Solar panels provide the energy needed to ensure continual cooling. The idea has been agonized over since the mid-'90s by Ray Olsson, ClimateWell's head of innovation, and as engineered by chief technology officer Goran Bölin, heat from water connected to the solar panels dries and crystallizes the salt, evaporating the water absorbed in it and storing energy inside the salt for as long as it is needed. As soon as water is remixed with the salt, that energy is released, again cooling the water tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooled By Sun And Salt | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...Poss explains. "That's 180,000 diesel-burning trucks on our streets every day." Plus, those trucks roll, spewing pollution in their wake, whether trash cans are full or empty. As Poss puts it, "I just knew there had to be a better way." So he invented one: the solar-powered BigBelly Cordless Compaction System...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM POSS: Bringing Sunshine to Trash | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

Poss has made a career of renewable-energy engineering. He has created a wave-powered generator, various hybrid engines and has worked in solar. In 2003 he started Seahorse Power, which makes BigBelly, using start-up funds from his Babson College M.B.A. program. "Any business effort I made had to have good consequences for the environment," Poss says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM POSS: Bringing Sunshine to Trash | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...outside also resembles a mailbox. "We don't want people putting their tax forms in there," joked Boston official Timothy McCarthy as he introduced Beantown's 50 BigBellys to residents. It's the mechanics inside that makes the trash compactors so distinctive. Each is equipped with a 40-watt solar panel connected to a 12-volt battery, which runs the motor (the battery guarantees that the BigBelly works rain or shine). At 540 lbs., it's not easy to steal. The unit costs about $4,000, about 10 times the price of a conventional garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM POSS: Bringing Sunshine to Trash | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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