![]() ![]() (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images for SATC) Mark Evans/Getty Images AsiaPac/Getty Images for SATCĬhasing the sun: Racing 1,800 miles by solar power The race starts on the 13th of October in Darwin in the Northern Territory and travels the Stuart Highway to Port Augusta and then via Highway 1 to finish in the City of Adelaide in South Australia. Teams from across the globe are competing in the 2019 World Solar Challenge - a 3000 km solar-powered vehicle race between Darwin and Adelaide. GLENDAMBO, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 17: The Antakari team car 'Intikallpa V from Chile competes in the Challenger class on Day 5 of the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge at Glendambo on Octonear Woomera ,Australia. ![]() Ubiquitous Energy’s home state of California is one of the first to require that every new home incorporate some form of solar technology. It’s one of several emerging products that harness solar energy, with others including irrigation pumps and a “solar oven” that can be used to make cement and steel. While several companies are working on similar products, the technology is still in the relatively early stages. The company is looking to capitalize on the United States’ renewable energy boom, with solar and wind energy projected to surpass coal by 2021, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. “It can be applied to windows of skyscrapers it can be applied to glass in automobiles it can be applied to the glass on your iPhone,” Miles Barr, Ubiquitous Energy’s founder and chief technology officer, told CNN Business. The company, spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012, hopes to use that tech to turn practically any everyday glass surface into a solar cell. ![]() Ubiquitous Energy has developed transparent solar cells to create its ClearView Power windows, a kind of “solar glass” that can turn sunlight into energy without needing the bluish-grey opaque panels those cells are generally associated with. What if every window in your house could generate electricity? One Redwood City, California-based startup thinks its technology can achieve that by transforming the way solar power is collected and harnessed. ![]()
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