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Updated: 1 year 32 weeks ago
Dock Here for Clean Renewable Solar Energy!
This can very well happen in the near future with billboards advertising – bold and strong, beckoning electric vehicles for recharging. Already in Berlin-Adlershof, this is happening. The largest independently functioning solar charging station is offering high-quality, computerized and completely safe kind of solar charging to electrical cars. Electric-power cars’ handicap – finding a [...]
Posted in: Electric Cars, Solar Power, Transportation
Posted in: Electric Cars, Solar Power, Transportation
Categories: Energy
Synthetic Fuel from CO2 and Solar Energy?
Really amazing are the innovative ways solar power is put into use. Now a team of scientists working in Sandia National Laboratories is focusing on exploring basic steps to make synthetic liquid fuel with the help of solar panels. The goal is that this will help considerably reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Conversion goals:
The team [...]
Posted in: Biofuels, Environment, Solar Power
Posted in: Biofuels, Environment, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
Airborne Wind Turbines?
Yes, the day is not far off when reaching for sky is the new motto for generating cost-effective renewable energy. Initially it was considered to be technically non-viable to tap high-altitude winds. But today, technically-advanced materials and innovative computer know-how are giving new life to this scheme with innovative autonomous aerial structures using wind [...]
Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Categories: Energy
Mira EV Travels 1000km on Single Charge
Mira EV has created a world record with completing 1000 km run on a single battery charge non-stop, powered by Sanyo’s lithium-ion battery systems. This experiment took place on the world’s longest race course in Japan, in Shimotsuma. Organized by Japan Electric Vehicle Club, this long marathon driving was accomplished by a [...]
Posted in: Electric Cars, Future Energy, Transportation
Posted in: Electric Cars, Future Energy, Transportation
Categories: Energy
Solar Panels – Are They a Threat to Biodiversity?
Solar panels are gaining more recognition as key ingredients to produce eco-friendly and renewable source of energy. With growing need for more energy, there will be in future, a plethora of solar panels all over the world. Now this has become a source of eco-conservative concern, according to Mr. Bruce Robertson, Research Associate, [...]
Posted in: Environment, Industry, Solar Power
Posted in: Environment, Industry, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
Sanyo’s HIT Solar Cells are a Hit in Italy
Japan’s Sanyo Electric Company is creating a record by powering the largest solar pant in Italy with its HIT solar cells. The Project funded by a consortium led by Deutsche Bank is expected to be completed by September 2010. Sanyo is successfully on its way to make the dream of a clean-energy society [...]
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
Sun Shines on Solar Energy Future
The chances of producing solar power as a more commercially viable source of alternative energy seem brighter now with the positive research results pioneered by University of Illinois professors. The Department of Energy and National Science Foundation-funded team led by Professors John Rogers, and Xiuling Li, has been exploring ways to find more optimal [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
Increase Renewable Energy Sources – Generate More Jobs
This has been the slogan that GE, one of the leading power suppliers and energy delivery technology pioneers, propagated all through the ‘Capture the Wind‘ tour across US. GE Energy, comprised of GE Power& Water, GE Energy services and GE Oil & Gas is on an all out effort to promote wind industry’s growth [...]
Posted in: Economy, Industry, Politics
Posted in: Economy, Industry, Politics
Categories: Energy
Giant Inflatable Airship Powered by Algae
This summer, piloted by Captain Allan Judd, Bullet 580 will usher in the return of inflatable giant airships. The 235 ft long and 65ft diameter ship is covered with a type of Kevlar, a material 10 times-stronger than steel but only one sixteenth of an inch thick. An E-green design special costing £5.5million, this [...]
Posted in: Biofuels, Inventions, Transportation
Posted in: Biofuels, Inventions, Transportation
Categories: Energy
Scientists Study Fish Schools for Wind Farm Ideas
Presently Fluid Dynamics Expert, John Dabiri, is very much on the quest of improving designs of wind turbines. Spotting behaviours that may throw light on energy-related practices in biological system and trying to implement that in real-life situations is part of that quest and Mr.Dabiri is jubilant that he is learning lessons from a [...]
Posted in: Wind Farms, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Posted in: Wind Farms, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Categories: Energy
Eco-Friendly Planes Designed by MIT-Led Team on the Anvil
The NASA Research Program ‘N+3′ has thrown open a challenge for exploring the potential to develop quieter subsonic commercial planes as well as supersonic commercial aircraft that burn less fuel and pollute less. The team led by MIT are working on developing two models to meet the NASA criteria as well to [...]
Posted in: Industry, Transportation
Posted in: Industry, Transportation
Categories: Energy
Future Air Travel will have Less Noise, Less Exhaust
EU’s ‘Clean Sky’ – the 1-6 billion euro research project – with 86 participating partners from 16 nations – has goals like developing unique application-specific technologies and evaluation and advancement of the entire aeronautic system. Aviation experts from ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) are expecting to achieve 50% reduction of noise [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Transportation
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Transportation
Categories: Energy
Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost
In a market-friendly scenario, Nanosolar claims to be able to produce electricity at 5-6 cents/kilowatt hour almost as cheap as power from coal and at about one-third the cost of other solar power. Nanosolar claims: Nanosolar claims mass production of solar power will now become feasible with their differently manufactured solar panels. Conventional silicon-made [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
MIT Researchers Print a Solar Cell on Paper
We love the idea of clean and green fuel. But they come with certain disadvantages. First one is they are heavy on pocket of a commoner. Second disadvantage is their power conversion rate is quite low. Last one is you need storage space to save all the power converted by a clean and green [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
Bladeless Wind Turbine – Inspired by Nikola Tesla
A research company in New Hampshire recently patented its bladeless wind turbine, which is based on a patent issued to Nikola Tesla in 1913. This wind turbine is christened as the Fuller Wind Turbine. This turbine is developed by Solar Aero. The specialty of Fuller Wind Turbine is it has only one rotating part, [...]
Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
Categories: Energy
Coal Emissions from U.S. Could Stop in 20 Years
Pushker Kharecha and his colleagues believe that we should follow some practical methods to do away with coal and conventional fossil fuel emissions. We all know that use of fossil fuels leads towards carbon emissions that cause immense damage to our environment. Pushker Kharecha and colleagues voiced similar sentiments in the American Chemical Society’s [...]
Posted in: Environment, Industry, Politics
Posted in: Environment, Industry, Politics
Categories: Energy
Solar Greenhouse to Produce Food and Electricity
Imagine a greenhouse that is producing solar power and food too. This excellent experiment is being done in Italy. The companies responsible for this project are Renewable energy company Solar ReFeel, CeRSAA and solar panel manufacturer Solyndra. The test site has been constructed at CeRSAA’s Albenga, Italy. The project intends to attain the production [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
Two Wind Farms get Investment from Google
Now big companies are going green and proudly proclaiming it too from rooftops. Google Inc. has invested $38.8 million in two North Dakota wind farms. This is the first direct investment by Google in utility-scale renewable energy generation. These two wind farms produce 169.5 megawatts of power. These two wind farms can light up [...]
Posted in: Ethanol, Industry, Wind Farms, Wind Power
Posted in: Ethanol, Industry, Wind Farms, Wind Power
Categories: Energy
Affordable Solar Power with Purple Pokeberries?
Researchers at Wake Forest University’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials are trying to achieve source of clean and green power through pokeberries! Pokeberries could be helpful in making solar power accessible to many. Nanotech Center scientists have extracted the red dye from pokeberries to paint their efficient and low-cost fiber-based solar cells. The [...]
Posted in: Biofuels, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Posted in: Biofuels, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
Categories: Energy
New Platinum Could Mean Cheaper, More Efficient Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are clean and green cells. They work without polluting the environment. Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that transform the chemical energy of a fuel into electricity generating water as a by-product. Fuel cells are most used in space flights but they can be best utilized in electric vehicles to reduce air pollution. [...]
Posted in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel, Inventions
Posted in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel, Inventions
Categories: Energy