You can become a homeowner if you are willing to move into a small house like Jay Shafer’s tiny house or Marianne Cusato’s cottages. They are cheaper and more important, green. Shafer built his first house ten years ago which he called it the Tumbleweed house. The house measured 100-square feet. Nowadays he lives in a 70-square feet house called the Weebee. Shafer’s tiny house uses only $3 for energy per month. The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company was founded by Jay Shafer and it offers houses ranging between 60-square feet and 600-square feet with the option “built and delivered”.

Now let’s get back to Marianne Cusato. The New York designer built an alternative to the FEMA trailer for the communities affected by Katrina and Rita hurricanes. The cottages are meant for resisting the hurricane winds. The first cottage for the victims of Katrina was 308-square feet. Marianne Cusato was awarded for her small house design and last summer The Congress allocated $400 million for an emergency housing program. The cottages are ranging between 544-square feet and 1800-square feet, and the price for the smallest cottage is $27,000.

Sudia Design Labs made available a new way of recharging all kind of devices: the SunTable. The table has room for six men and it provides 150 watts of power. The SunTable sports LEDs, so you can know its status, and an inverter, so you could plug in any device. This table fully recharges in three hours. It costs $3,600 and there are available only fifty piece, so starting March 15th you should hurry up to buy a SunTable if you want one.

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A U.S Air Force base in Nevada opened the biggest photovoltaic solar panel in the US, that brings power for abot 3,000 people from the base. The 14 megawattfarm is placed near Las Vegas and it will generate 30,000 megawatt hours a year, covering 140 acres. It isn’t very productive, but it’s something good, considering it reduces the use of energy produced from coal.

The U.S. military announced they also have more projects to build solar farms like this to power military bases.

It’s very good that the U.S Army thinks green and really make something to help the environment.

The developing countries are facing a energy crisis due to the quick depleting of the fossil fuels, which will stop their economies to proliferate. To keep their economy up they need to import energy from other countries, for which they pay large amounts in exchange.

Countries like Indonesia, Thailand and other countries from Southeastern Asia are in a big need of energy. The energy minister for Thailand says that they are importing 60% energy, and if they want to keep it up they will need to find new ways. To do so the countries want to turn on nuclear power which, they say, is a better option.

By using nuclear energy they can stop the depleting of the fossil fuels. The nuclear energy doesn’t release harmful carbons when being produced. George W. Bush agreed with the nuclear energy, and he said that the developed countries should help the developing ones.

Greenpeace activists also agreed with the nuclear energy. Although it seems that the nuclear usage is better than using fossil fuels they should consider the ill-effects. Also they should think about the cost of the buildings and the safety of using it, no one forgot about Chernobyl.

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The Nanosolar Powersheets we’ve presented last month now finally went on sale, but unfortunately not for the specified price of 30cents-per-watt. The powersheets offer reliable and flexible energy produced from solar power and can be printed on anything.

When they announced the development process, the company created a lot of fuss and had great success, that has now materialized in sales. All the production for the next 18 months of capacity has been ordered and will surely sell even better when they manage to develop the technology that will help them built up to 80% cheaper nanosolar powersheets.

via Dodevice