Green Options » solar bricks http://greenoptions.com/tag/solar-bricks Posts tagged 'solar bricks' Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:53:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Building Green With Solar Bricks http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/04/building-green-with-solar-bricks/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/04/building-green-with-solar-bricks/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:53:08 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/04/building-green-with-solar-bricks/ Sunrise Solar Corp.)What a great idea: incorporating solar energy not only into windows and roofs, but into the building blocks of structures themselves … as in bricks. The solar-powered brick, which has a solar cell embedded inside it, could be used to provide decorative or safety lighting, or even illuminate rural airplane runways, according to San Antonio-based distributor Sunrise Solar. Equally cool: you can order bricks that glow in any of a variety of colors.

Photo courtesy of Sunrise Solar Corp.

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