But my wife Kathy, ever practical, pointed out a solar-powered umbrella might not fly very far in the rain.
But "solar" as an umbrella term did not seem ideal, especially as the wind and solar businesses began to seek their own identities.
DC SUN in turn spawned MD SUN, WV SUN and VA SUN, umbrella solar advocacy organizations in Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, respectively.
A vast central cluster of opening and closing solar powered "sunflower" umbrellas capture the sun's rays during the day and fold at night releasing stored heat in a continual cycle.
Top of the list is a solar shade, a gigantic umbrella in space that would shield the Earth from the sun's rays.
Until he made Human Universe this year, which he says he's pretty pleased with, Cox was worried he'd never top the first episode of Wonders of the Solar System, the one with the umbrella experiment that made his name.
Under the umbrella of this project five renewable energy technologies were promoted (solar thermal, solar passive, solar PV, biomass and geothermal energy) in parallel in five EU regions (East Attica, Sicily, Alpes-Maritimes, Andalusia and Madeira) by the corresponding agencies and promotion centers following an extensive and intensive work program be composed of six elaboration phases.
In 2012, under the umbrella of Aqton, he bought 94% of bankrupt solar module maker Solarwatt, which subsequently entered into a partnership with BMW.
Hanging from the ceiling is a replica of a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, a sprawling piece of hardware with solar panels and a couple of what appear to be giant mesh umbrellas.
STP now falls under the more general umbrella of space science, and particularly space weather involving research on our Sun, the solar wind, earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere and atmosphere with an emphasis on protecting the earth's environment and associated technological systems from solar storm damage.
