Solar Land - Background (2021-04-07) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Keep hunting the sunlight.
Solar Land Cover - Opening (2021-04-07) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Change is now.
Welcome hunters to the game of our future.
The rule is for us and this precious earth to remain healthy and wealthy. Leave what we have created behind, we are hunting for the new opportunities to transform the place we are living in. Everyday brings new hope. So long as the sun still lights up and can be converted to energy. Shall we start hunting and collecting solar-powered items, and take them to our goal in Solartopia; our well-planned city in which water, light, fresh air, and profits from clean energy are accessible to all.
Keep hunting the sunlight. Better future awaits in Solar Land.
Best wishes,
Creative Economy Agency (Public Organization) &
Office of Energy Regulatory Commission
Solar Land Exhibition : Touring VDO (2021-03-18) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Land Application (ENG) (2021-03-19) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
You are entering Solar Land.
Enjoy the journey to the future.
Solar Land Exhibition Zone (2021-03-18) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Land (entrance) (2021-03-26) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Land Zone 1 (2021-03-18) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Land - Power of The Sun (2021-03-18) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
4,600 years ago, the moment that interstellar dust and gas gathered up. There's powerful gravitation in the center of it, the temperature rising high. Occurred the nuclear fission that melts all the matters into a giant fireball, in which we called it, the Sun.
This gigantic sphere has a temperature of 5,500 degrees celsius. It provides heat, warmness, and light for the Earth, and humans have got direct advantage from the Sun ever since.
In the 19th century, Edmond Becquerel, a French physicist, discovered the photovoltaic effect which can convert sunlight into electric energy.
And that is the origin of a solar cell.
From the knowledge, Charles Fritts has invented a solar panel by using Selenium coated with a thin layer of gold to generate electricity for the first time.
Nowadays, the solar cell has been used widely—As a primary and alternate source of energy, either in a household or an enterprise. Especially in Asia, China and Japan are using solar cells for more than half of the entire world. In the United States, there are over two million units of solar energy used currently.
As for Thailand, solar energy is becoming more and more important every now and then. Today we can change our 'role' from a consumer to a manufacturer to produce electricity and sell the excess from daily usage back to the public sector.
Are you ready to change and grab the opportunity with us for the future?
Change for ourselves.
Change for the better quality of life.
Change for the survival of this world.
Change for the profits of everyone.
Let's hunt for the light.
Zone2 - SOLAR MONOPOLY (2021-05-11) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Land - Which 'Light Hunter' are you? (2021-03-18) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Which 'Light Hunter' are you?
“If humans simultaneously store solar energy for one hour, we can have renewable power generation for the next whole year.”
The sun can produce energy of 173,000 terawatts/second (humans only consume 15 terawatts per day). The more we 'hunt' for solar energy, the longer and greater we can convert it into electrical energy that can produce lighting, agriculture, boiling clean water, operating space shuttles, or even granting business opportunities in sunlight investment.
For you, for us, for the earth, for prosperity, are we ready to go hunting the light?
Solar Land - For YOU (2021-03-25) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Land Exhibition (2021-03-26) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
SONNENGLAS®
"The Sun In A Bottle"
Aside from a large solar-panel used on a vast solar farm, sometimes we only need smaller cells to generate dim light, with less immense energy usage. This solar-cell bottle lamp converts solar energy into orangish-warm light from the hidden LED bulb. It can store solar energy and illuminates for up to 12 hours.
SolarGadget (2021-03-26) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Window Charger
"Meet the Solar-Power(ed) Banks"
The device to store up sunlight shines through our windowpane. It can convert solar energy into a 2,600 mAh battery for home appliances. This simple yet practical design allows sunlight to be used even when staying inside the building.
RAV Power Solar Charger
"A Portable Slim Solar Panels"
Travel lovers will surely need this 2 cm. ultra thin solar-powered charger. With the foldable design and water-proof, it can charge up to 3 devices simultaneously.
Foresee - Safety Helmet (2021-03-26) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
FORESEE by Solar Vengers
"(More Than A) Safety Helmet"
A safety helmet attached with Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) technology, a solar panel works in the same way as a plant's photosynthesis. It can absorb sunlight and convert them to electric power. This helmet has many functions for the driver, e.g., using head motion to turn on a turn signal.
SPHELAR® TEXTILE "Solar-fiber fabric"
An innovation developed through the collaboration between the industrial sector and the educational sector in Japan. The fabric is woven from SPHELAR® YARN solar fibers. The structure consists of small spherical solar cells, only 1 mm. in diameter, placed together, and the electricity generated is transmitted through tinned copper strands wrapped around the fiber. It is heat resistant and high durability, called the Aramid Fiber.
In Japan, the woven solar cloth is used in conjunction with the tent canvas during disasters. There is also a Swedish brand called Radius, which brings them to make a bag that can charge mobile devices.
Thurmalox 250 (2021-03-31) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
THURMALOX 250
"Light-strengthen substance"
Solar panels cannot effectively convert sunlight to energy if the solar irradiation is too low. Even if the temperature is high but not enough light intensity, then electricity cannot be generated.
This Silicon coating substance is an indispensable option to help a solar panel absorb more sunlight so that there is sufficient solar irradiation to produce energy for home use.
Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard-2 (2021-05-13) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
LOGITECH WIRELESS SOLAR KEYBOARD
"Wire-Free, Worry-Free"
This might look like a regular keyboard in plain sight, but what is special about it is the ability to charge itself either indoors and outdoors. At full charge, its usage duration lasts 3 months.
It’s tough, it’s durable. Gonna grab one right now!
SOLIOMCAM
"The Outdoor Solar security camera"
This outdoor wireless CCTV not only provides a full-functioned security system, it also comes with a lower power bill. The camera with its 3 solar panels works along with a 10,000 mAh solar battery. The panels can put in a power of 500-1,000 mAh per hour. It takes 3-4 sunny days to fully recharge. Gives you peace of mind from the security checks around the house and pocket-friendly from cheaper bills.
Flexible Robot Skin (2021-04-07) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
FLEXIBLE ROBOT SKIN
"When robots take a sunbath"
Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) devised a way to turn silicon panels into flexible cells while maintaining solar energy efficiency up to 19 percent. By using the solid-silicon board cut into triangular shapes, then attached them to the 'ecoflex' elastic sheet. Stepping over the limitation of solar cells' shape, and developed to be used as a robot skin in the future.
Solar Land - For US (2021-03-25) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Energy Pumping System for Agriculture
"Beat the heat with the sun"
Even in the dry season, solar energy has been used to generate power for the groundwater pumping system, helping the farmers to continue their farming activities. There are around 1,400 solar energy pumping systems running nowadays across Thailand. The system can be easily installed, configured, and maintained, either the solar panels and the pump, as well as working quietly.
Solvatten (2021-04-26) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solvatten
"Clean Water From Sunlight"
A child dies every 15 seconds in remote areas due to toxins or impurities that contaminate the water. This portable solar water purifier was invented for communities inaccessible to clean water.
Solvatten was designed to be both a water purifier and a boiling machine using solar power, with a rucksack for portability, and easy-to-use. Just pour in 11 liters of water, and lay exposed to sunlight for 2-6 hours. The solar cells will convert sunlight to thermal energy, warming up the water. Then the light signals to indicate that the water is cleansed and ready to be consumed.
Source: WaterAid and Solvatten AB (Sweden)
Little Sun "Feel the Sunshine"
For those having sufficient brightness all day, lighting may be just a matter of convenience and decoration at night, congratulations. But for the remote areas, the light reflects the educational opportunities.
Little Sun is a portable lighting device, designed by Olafur Eliasson, an Icelandic-Denmark artist, for townspeople's open-space activities. In the meantime, it is also the light source for children in the areas with no sufficient electricity to read their books at night time. With only five hours of charge, this little sun can illuminate for 4-50 hours long, depending upon bright light or warm light.
Source: Little Sun (Germany)
Solar on the Mars
The new material for future solar cells
Carrying large equipment to the outer space for solar power collecting as NASA once did may no longer be necessary. Perovskite Solar Cell has been discovered as a type of minerals used for coating onto materials printed via a 3D printer. It's electrically conducted in liquid form. With this technology, astronauts can easily print their solar panels from somewhere in space. They will only need a printer and its 'ink,' then press the button.
Source: NASA
We Care Solar Suitcase (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
We Care Solar Suitcase®
Sunlight for new lives
This suitcase for medical devices is powered with solar energy. It was designed to support medical personnel working in a remote area. Inside the case are mobile communication and medical devices, including emergency obstetric care such as a Fetal Doppler. All tools are powered by solar energy primarily so that everyone can access healthcare, and welcoming a new life to the world, safe and sound.
Source: We Care Solar (USA)
We Care Solar Suitcase (2021-04-23) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
ColdHubs (2021-05-11) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
ColdHubs
Fridge for the community
This cold storage is an essential part of extending the lifespan of newly picked fruits and vegetables. Keeps cold at 5 degrees celsius in a solar-powered fridge, it can prolong the crops from 2- -21 days. This is shared space in the community for farmers to store their farming products, using the 'pay-as-you-store' subscription model. Asides from reducing organic wastes from product loss, it also grants income for local people thoroughly.
Source: Coldhubs
Solar Land - For the planet (2021-03-25) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Hyundai Sonata Hybrid (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Hyundai Sonata Hybrid
Driving While Charging
The invention of the roof isn't just for residence when you realize the importance of free energy. A car roof, now becoming a worthy mobile solar-charging device. The solar cells on the rooftop is a secondary power source aside from the main battery. It prolongs the driving distance for nearly 3 kilometers per day and is capable of storing power to be used for over 1,000 kilometers a year.
Source: Hyundai Motor (USA)
Solar impulse 2
Not A Single Drop of Fuel for this Cross-Continental Journey
Solar Impulse 2 is the solar-powered aircraft program from Switzerland that aims to use clean energy. In 2016, this plane flew across the world for 17 times, which took 43,041 kilometers in total, without the use of oil or fossil fuel even a single drop.
Source: Solar Impulse Foundation
LightSail®Sailing Boat In A Space
A small spacecraft propelled by its sails and solar energy. This project has been fundraising by The Planetary Society, a world-class non-profit organization, to support space exploration.
Back in 2019, LightSail was launched along with the most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy. Its sails work as a solar receiver and reflect them in the opposite direction, driving the ship with solar energy.
Source: The Planetary Society (USA))
SOLAR Road (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
SOLAR Road
The Solar-Absorbing Street
At the coming 2021 Olympics in Japan, you’ll find solar power generation roads. With a special resin coating, it is durable enough for a car to drive on. These solar panel roads will be built in front of convenience stores. One set can generate electricity at around 9 percent of the amount required in one store.
Source: Japan News-Yomiuri
Big Belly (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Big Belly
Smart Waste System
Big Belly isn't just a smart trash using solar power for a garbage compression to hold 8 times the amount of regular bins, but it is a system to manage waste efficiently. It features an interactive lid that can be opened without touching, data collecting for monitoring the volume of garbage inside to plan the route of garbage trucks, making the city free of visual pollution, and optimizing the garbage truck's energy consumption. Now that's what you call it 'Smart City'.
Source: Bigbelly (USA)
Big Belly (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar POH (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
SolarPOH by Solar Vengers
THIS PIER IS SAFE
Currently, only at Si Phraya pier that has lighting powered by solar cells, with a security system using ocean liners-grade, leak-proof sensors. It also features counting sensors for preventing passengers overloading. When you take a ride home today, try using a speed boat at Si Phraya pier. While waiting for a boat, you may feel safer than ever before.
Reichstag Dome in Berlin (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Reichstag in Berlin
Energy perspective in German parliament
Norman Foster, an innovative and eco-building architect, has significantly renovated the Federal Republic of Germany's parliament building. He added a Reichstag Dome that takes natural light into the facility and reflects them as a light source from the core.
Along with the installation of giant solar panels on the roof. The energy can be managed according to weather conditions, hot or cold. It is regarded as a building that has adopted renewable energy as a global leader in clean energy cities.
Source: Foster and Partners
Solyar (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solyar by Solar Vengers
From concrete jungle to energy storable lawn
The solar energy, modular floor tiles, designed to be a landscape architecture elegant with storing solar energy capability. Its half-circular design can be placed in various ways according to light direction, changing public spaces into power generators. It uses the Monocrystalline tempered glass laminate solar panel technology. One set of a floor tile comprises 4 modular pieces and can generate electricity of approximately 44-48 watts.
Design and development by Shma Company Limited
Sense Solar (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Sense Solar
How much energy our rooftop has produced?
A photovoltaic energy tracking device and system connected to the home electrical panel controlled via a mobile application. Process data with intelligence. This allows you to see the amount of electricity from sunlight produced in each period. Compared to the use of internal energy from the authority (On-grid system), the remaining electricity can be observed and sold back clearly.
Source: Sense® (UK)
Biodegradable Solar Gel
A gel that photosynthesis
The University of Connecticut has researched and developed a solar synthetic gel from degradable organic substances, such as protein waste from the meat industry, fatty acids from coconut, and organic dyes. It can synthesize sunlight, just like chlorophyll in plants.
This research could be a new hope for sustainable use of clean energy. From panel production to the disposal of environment-friendly organic solar gel.
Solar Land - For profits (2021-03-25) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
PEA Solar Hero (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
PEA Solar Hero
The little helper for installing your solar cells
An application from the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) that helps plan your solar panels installation rooftop for an individual house. It also helps calculate your rooftop area, power-generating capability, gives instructions on how to choose your equipment, estimates the cost of installation, even links to the banks to apply for a loan for your facility. All in a single app.
Source: Provincial Electricity Authority
BANPUNEXT (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
BANPUNEXT
Co-builder of the green Earth
An application for monitoring the electricity generation of the solar system from anywhere and anytime. Real-time or recorded, including services like consulting, design, installing the complete solar-based electricity generating system.
Source: Banpu Next Co., Ltd.
Power Ledger (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Power ledger
Another level of P2P energy consumption
Trading platforms on Blockchain technology allow everybody access to clean energy without an intermediary. This Australian company also corporates with the Thai Digital Energy Development Company Limited to develop a platform for trading the energy credits by the name TraceX REC, which will open accessibility for Thai people to the energy market in late 2020.
Source: Power Ledger (Australia), and TechSauce
WePowerDigital assets from green energy
A trading platform for renewable energy is just introducing the new kind of investment via 'We Power Token,' a digital asset, or 'token' that helps create the new sources of renewable energy. The value of tokens risen by the energy creators of 'We Power', that share 9 percent of their power generated to the pool of token holders. The token can be stored and used as energy or sold for a profit later on.
Source: WePower
Plenti
Green Loans and Investment
An enormous initial investment cost for installing a solar system would not be a hindrance. There is a financial institution in Australia called Plenti solar cells and energy storage batteries at home. Until now, more than 52,000 Australian families have received their loan, in the range of 60,000 to approximately 140,000 baht.
4 easy procedure:
1. Estimating your interest rate. 2. Online registration. 3. Waiting for approval. 4. The approved credit line is sent directly to the installer.
Plenti is also open for green investors. There are options for either a short term investment of 1 month (interest at 2.4 percent) or a 6 months to 5 years investment (interest at 6.5 percent). For instance, in a 5-year period, an investment of 620,000 baht might gain a total return of approximately 855,000 baht.
Source: Plenti (Australia)
Disney Solar Farm (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solar Farm at Walt Disney World
A solar farm for fun
Walt Disney World, a theme park that presents imagination to people worldwide, has installed solar farms in the area of 270 acres (around 1 million sq.m.) Over 500,000 solar panels are placed in the shape of Mickey Mouse to generate electric energy for the park. This helps reduce the release of greenhouse gas at 57,000 tons a year, which is equal to the pollution from 10,000 cars on the streets.
How safe is the roller coaster? How well solar farms work? You can ask Disney fans.
HANWALL
Power Generation Glass & Window
With CGIS (Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide Solar Cells) assembling with an engineering glass, the result is an innovative, high-efficiency window glass for storing solar energy. This helps expand the perspective of the architectures to create various buildings and integrate sustainability together.
Source: SUNERGIST, Authorized Distributor
Heliogen
A Major step to climate change solution
Heliogen aims for the use of solar energy in place of fossil fuel. With Heliomax technology, mirror panels are designed and controlled by a computer system to concentrate sunlight before letting the tower capture the light. This creates HelioHeat; ultra-high temperature heat up to 1,500 degrees Celsius, which can be used in a commercial industry and converted into Hydrogen to fuel vehicles (HelioFuel) without releasing Carbon.
Source: Heliogen
ZONE 3 - SOLARTOPIA (2021-05-11) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solartopia - The city we live and breathe (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Japan Smart : Microgrids City, SOLAR-SHIMA Ashiya, Hyogo (Japan)
United Kingdom : Holistic Green Urban Planning City, BEDDINGTON ZERO ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, Hackbridge, London (England)
United Arab Emirates : Net Zero Energy City, THE SUSTAINABLE CITY Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Thailand : Solar Energy in Buildings and Energy Tracking Dashboard, ROYAL POLICE CADET ACADEMY SOLAR SYSTEM, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Solartopia - The city we live and breathe (2021-05-12) by TCDCThailand Creative & Design Center
Solartopia
The city we live and breathe
Thailand is now heading in the clean energy route, the first action is on solar power. Our high technology and innovation allows sunlight investment to be accessible to all. Today, there are tons of ways to get solar power without putting panels on the roof, and everyone can be a sun partner and make a profit on solar.
It might need a radical change to live in utopia, yet in “Solartopia”, we need a right to develop to make a better future possible.
นิทรรศการโดย
Exhibition by
สำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี
Office of the Prime Ministerสำนักงานส่งเสริมเศรษฐกิจสร้างสรรค์ (องค์การมหาชน)
Creative Economy Agency (Public Organization) สำนักงานคณะกรรมการกำกับกิจการพลังงาน
Office of Energy Regulatory Commissionศูนย์สร้างสรรค์งานออกแบบ
Thailand Creative & Design Center
ข้อมูลนิทรรศการ
Exhibition Content Research
ฮิวแมนไนซ์ | บริษัท ฮิวแมน ไนซ์ เอ็กซ์พีเรียนซ์ จำกัด
Humanice | Human Nice Experience Co., Ltd.
ออกแบบและติดตั้งนิทรรศการ
Exhibition Design
ออกแบบมัลติมีเดีย
Multimedia design
ออกแบบแสง-เสียงนิทรรศการ
Exhibition light & sound
บริษัท อินเตอร์แอคชั่นดีไซน์สตูดิโอ จำกัด
INTERACTION DESIGN STUDIO
ที่ปรึกษาและคณะทำงานโครงการนวัตกรรมเพื่อการพัฒนาองค์ความรู้และส่งเสริมการใช้พลังงานแสงอาทิตย์ (Solar Vengers)
มณฑินี ยงวิกุล
Montinee Yongvikul
ภูเบศ วิทยาสุข
Pubate Vidtayasuk
ปิยวรรณ กลิ่นศรีสุข
Piyawan Klinsrisuk
ชนนกานต์ ไกรสีกาจ
Chonnakarn Kaisikarj
ที่ปรึกษาภัณฑรักษ์
เลอชาติ ธรรมธีรเสถียร
Lerchart Thamtheerasathian
ภัณฑรักษ์
ทรงวาด สุขเมืองมา
Songwad Sukmaungma
เหล่า Solar Vengers
โค้ชกลุ่ม CreativeVenger
พงศธร ละเอียดอ่อน
โค้ชกลุ่ม DesignVenger
พรเทพ ฉัตรภิญญาคุปต์
โค้ชกลุ่ม MakerVenger
กัลยา โกวิทวิสิทธิ์
ทีม SolarPOH
กัญญาณัฐ คมวิชายั่งยืน
บัญชา สระทอง
ศศินันท์ คิรินทร์รัตนะ
ทีม FORESEE
ชาญชัย ชวานนท์
ฟ้าคราม บัวใส
ทีม Solyar
ยศพล บุญสม
Yossapon Boonsom
นักรบ สายเทพ
Nakrob Saithep
รวิพร บุญยาสัย
Raviporn Boonyasai
อัตนา วสุวัฒนะ
Attana Vasuwattana
ชัยรัตน์ ธรรมทัตโต
Chairat Thummatatto
ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านพลังงานทางเลือก
ดร.พิศิษฐ์ คำหน่อแก้ว
Pisist Kumnorkeaw, Ph.D.
ทาคุยะ โอนิชิ
Takuya Onishi
อัลวาโร คอนติ
Alvaro Conti
วิรัตน์ ศรีวัฒนพงศ์
Wirat Srirattanapong
ขอขอบคุณ
With special thanks
กรมเจ้าท่า
Marine Department
บริษัท แสงมิตรอีเลคตริค จำกัด
Saengmitr Electric Co., Ltd.
ลิตเติล ซัน (เยอรมัน)
Little Sun, Germany
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