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Italy to Install Solar Hydrogen Fuel Pumps at Gas Stations
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High-Flying Turbines Could Tap 870 Terawatts of Wind Power You know where there’s a lot of wind that could be harvested for energy The upper layers of the atmosphere, which contain as much as 870 terawatts of power — that’s 870 trillion watts! Researchers, startups and even some established players are getting serious about capturing that energy, and they’ll be gathering for a conference [...]..
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China’s Green Energy Businesses are Breaking International Law As you well know, a lot of things are made in China, mostly because the cost of producing thing is much lower there than elsewhere. Recently the country has seen a boom in renewable energy manufacturing, however a recently released report shows that almost all of China’s renewable energy manufacturing businesses are breaking World Trade [...]..
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Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm to Get Even Bigger Located in East Renfrewshire in the UK, Whitelee Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in Europe, and it’s about to get a whole lot bigger with plans to install another 75 turbines. The wind farm expansion came about after energy company ScottishPower Renewables struck a deal with Alstom, a French engineering firm, to [...]..
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Dept. of Energy Puts $8.5 Million Toward New Smart Grid Tech We as a planet are only as good as our grid when it comes to sustainable energy development. We can build the best wind farms and solar projects but if our grid is antiquated, that power will never reach the citizens of Earth. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu knows this full well and that’s why [...]..
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Parisian Building Taps Metro System as a Heat Source A low-income housing building in Paris is being sustainably renovated to utilize a very unique heating system — it will be literally drawing heat from Parisian commuters in the metro. Each passenger lets out about 100 watts of energy in body heat each time they enter and wait in the subway — couple that energy [...]..
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World’s Largest Wave Energy Site Now Installed in UK The Wave Hub, a groundbreaking renewable energy project that is set to become the UK’s first offshore facility dedicated to wave energy, has been installed off the North Coast of Cornwall. Four wave energy generation devices will connect their arrays into the Hub, allowing developers to transmit and then sell their renewable energy to the UK’s [...]..
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Photovoltaic Slate Tiles Upgrade Your Roof With Solar Power There are two factors that stand in the way of most solar roof installations – cost and aesthetics. Heritage Solar Slate aims to tackle the latter problem with their innovative solar tiles, which are designed to look just like roofing slates. The photovoltaic slates provide a stylish alternative to standard panels, are fully weatherproof, and [...]..
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SkyFuel’s SkyTrough is World’s Most Efficient Solar Concentrator When it comes to producing solar power, efficiency is the key – efficiency of the panels, efficiency of the system’s collectors and, according to SkyFuel, efficiency of the solar concentrator technology. Solar concentrators are increasingly being used in the industry, due to their efficiency in providing cheap solar energy. By harnessing the sun’s [...]..
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US and China Invest $100 Million in Energy Research Partnership As it turns out, the United States and China are going to walk hand in hand into the renewable energy future. Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the two countries have formed the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center and will both provide a total of $100 million dollars in funding to research to [...]..
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Sakku.Traveler is a Stylish Solar Bag Made from Recycled Sails! If you love cruising along the city streets on your two-wheeler or charging along the sidewalks on foot, what better way to take advantage of the outdoors than with this super practical solar bag Designed by Swiss company Sakku, the sakku.traveler is a stylish solar bag that not only stores energy from the sun to [...]..
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New Black Silicon Solar Cells are Cheap and Absorb More Sun While the reflective and shiny solar panels that researchers have been making thus far look pretty, they’re no match for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) recently discovered black silicon solar cell. The scientists at NREL discovered that etching thousands of tiny holes into a silicon wafer causes it to be almost black and thus able [...]..
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Bacteria Harvests Precious Metals to Produce Clean Energy Typical of industrial construction, precious metals such as gold, platinum and palladium are sometimes lost given the difficulties of effectively extracting them. However, researchers from the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham have found a way to use microbes, similar to the common soil bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, to recover palladium from [...]..
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Peace Corps to Start Clean Energy Program in the Americas Since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order, thousands of volunteers have traveled to developing countries to implement programs that range from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation. Now they’ll be adding another task to their list: the implementation of renewable energy. The US government just awarded [...]..
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Off-the-Shelf Dyes Increase Solar Panel Absorption The hippies were the first to push solar energy en masse in the 70’s, so it’s a wonder we haven’t thought of this before — it turns out the same stuff used to tie-dye t-shirts can increase the efficiency of solar panels. A new paper released in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy details [...]..
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New Stick-on Solar Panels Make Installations a Snap Today Global Solar unveiled a new type of flexible solar module that builders can stick directly on the roof, rather than constructing racks to hold heavy glass-covered cells. The modules won’t cost less than traditional arrays, at least initially, but they make it easier to include solar power at the time of construction and, without [...]..
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Precast Concrete Bases Improve Wind Turbine Efficiency Photo © Flickr DraconianRain A recently-released report announced that the use of precast concrete bases can actually make wind turbines sturdier, more efficient, and less resource-intensive to produce. According to the Atlas CTB White Paper, the wider footprint of precast concrete bases adds stability to the foundation of wind turbines and can reduce the amount of [...]..
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U.S. Coast Guard to Install New Wind Turbine at Base in Maine Following in the footsteps of the U.S. military’s embracing of renewable energy, such as fighter jets running on biofuel and hydrogen fuel cell powered tanks, the U.S. coast guard has decided to use wind power by installing a turbine at their Southwest Harbor Base in Maine. The turbine is part of a more amibitious program to [...]..
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High-Flying Solar Robots Designed to Soar Above Dubai Soaring like robotic birds, these energy generating flying devices were conceived by Carlos Campos Yamila Zynda Aiub Architects for the skies of Dubai. Called Wings, the curious “creatures” use solar cells to store energy, which they then use to illuminate the land below them at night in a flutter of constellation-like formations. Read the rest of [...]..
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Italy to Install Solar Hydrogen Fuel Pumps at Gas Stations Hydrogen fuel station by Honda Clean energy company Acta has unveiled plans to install a network of solar-powered hydrogen fueling stations throughout Italy. The new fuel pumps will harness solar energy to produce hydrogen fuel from water through electrolysis. While hydrogen-powered cars may not get the column inches that electric cars do, they offer an alternative [...]..
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Researchers One Step Closer to Capturing Electricity Out of Thin Air Electricity’s most fundamental riddle: How does it form in nature Even centuries after Ben Franklin so famously harnessed lightning, recreating this natural phenomenon has remained an unsolved mystery to the scientific world. That is until now. Recent laboratory tests conducted by Brazilian scientists at the University of Campinas have shown that water vapor picks up a charge [...]..
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