They say hope floats. Israel’s premiere environmental architecture firm Geotectura has certainly taken this statement to heart. Joseph Cory a designer at Geotectura, has worked with an aerospace engineer, to develop floating solar balloons capable of collecting solar energy in crowded cityscapes and places where large solar panels are not a viable alternative. They hold potential for disaster-stricken areas as well.
Filled with helium and coated with a space-age fabric made from photovoltaic solar cells, this project called SunHope is a promising low-cost system that could collect solar energy with less environmental impact than other traditional solar energy solutions.
Traditional solar systems, report Inhabitat, have daunting barriers to entry: they require high initial investments, large land requirements, and an in-depth installation process. On the other hand, the Sunhope project can go around these problems by constructing low-cost photovoltaic arrays designed for vertical rather than the horizontal spac