Auto: World’s Ugliest Car Gets Unsurprisingly High Gas Mileage
The design of this newly marketed solar car may not be so appealing or powerful looking, but it can acquire high gas mileage and be better for the environment.

Note to automakers: cars of the future are meant to be fierce. Sure, they may get the equivalent of 100mpg through electric efficiency, but they’d better look like they can decapitate onlookers during the morning commute…
Then again, any car capable of 44mph speeds for three hours at a time—that runs on nothing but the sun—has our ears perked.

Designed for the streets of Taiwan, the car uses a airplane-grade Nomex honeycomb body that makes it just 550lbs with seats. The light weight brings efficiency, so much so, in fact, that the developers claim that the car just needs a few hours of sunlight to recharge its batteries for another 3 hours of driving. But we’ll admit it—with a solar panel that tiny on top of the car, we can’t help but be a little skeptical about that figure.

Then again, for its groundbreakingly low $24,600 price tag, we’ll be willing to give it a chance over this more expensive, equally hideous alternative.

This video is an upbeat and energetic look at solar power including solar panels. The video also has slides with information and statistics about the ways solar power is already implemented into our world today.

This page by Solar Energy Solutions provides up to date and in detail information on solar panels and other forms of solar energy. It includes informations on what makes up a solar cell and how they generate the clean reliable energy we can use in our homes.

A PV cell, also known as a self-generating barrier layer cell is a PV detector that converts radiant flux straight into electrical current. It consists of a thin silver film on a semiconductor layer deposited on an iron substrate.

This article explains alternative energy principles and ideas. The fact being that our supply of energy today is declining. Coal and oil are in high demand and are quickly being depleted. Alternative energy solutions are available, although not widely considered. Alternative sources such as solar and wind power could not only provide more than enough energy to replace our dependence on coal and oil, but also benefit the entire planet.

The alternative energies that most money has been invested in so far are solar and wind energy. One of the reasons that these energy sources are so popular is because of the availability of the fuels and the amount of research already conducted into their viability and possible uses. Solar power is probably the most effective and available energy that homeowners can use to help do their bit for the renewable energy cause.