Solutions From the Sun

Visitors to the Gold Coast Airport will notice the distinctive blue lights that have recently been installed to mark the general aviation taxiways. The automatic solar-powered lights have been supplied by local company Orion Solar Pty Ltd. Sales manager Richard...

Solar Energy System Empowers

Jeremy Mercer does not consider himself an environmental activist but his actions say more than any flag or bullhorn. He and his wife Jennifer watched Al Gore’s documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, last spring. It changed them. “It was...

Restoration of Connecticut’s Avery Point Lighthouse

The author is Executive Director of the American Lighthouse Foundation and in contacting the Editor wrote: “Many people in the marine aids to navigation fields share my fascination for the LED beacons manufactured by the British Columbia-based Carmanah...

Carmanah Wins New U.S. Defence Deal

Carmanah Technologies’ best customer has come back for more. The Victoria-based solar power and lighting company inked a $600,000 contract this week with the U.S. Department of Defence for airfield lighting. The order includes taxiway, runway, approach,...