Michael Janzen

I ran across this big backyard sized mirrored solar dish on CleanTechnica. It’s a project by some students at MIT that has turned onto a new start up called RawSolar. I’ve often thought that there would be a big market for a mirror like this coupled with small stirling engine for backyard alternative energy generation. But it would have to be low cost. These folks are planning on using it to generate steam to drive a turbine.

I found this on materialicious. It’s an article that summarizes eight small wind turbine manufacturers. These are the kind of wind turbines you might use to augment a photovoltaic array and power your house.

• Small wind turbine article on Jetson Green
• Small Wind Roundup – materialicious