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Extreme weather in Scotland is toying with the fate of renewables, raising a few extra questions regarding their real reliability and safety standards. The alarmed public witnessed a dangerous fire, as a result of the explosion of 300ft wind turbine, generated by powerful winds. Authorities indicate 70,000 househol... |
9 December 2011
05:30 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announces that a new cost model for the development and wide-scale implementation of hydrogen fuel cells is now in the works.
The study is meant to address the issues of complexity and elevated ... |
2 November 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Wind could represent the Chabi Desert community's most important resource which might improve the destiny of its members. Dutch and Kenyan investors have joined efforts with the African Development Bank, to build the most ambitious project the area has ever known.
They are talking about Africa's biggest... |
29 October 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the government encourages and actively supports the development of wind energy, major companies have a hard time designing and implementing cost-effective strategies meant to decrease the costs of generating and providing wind power.In order to deal with the prohibitive costs of their actions, C... |
24 October 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Evergreen Energy, a company from Denver which operates on the market of alternative energy has announced today the fact that Judith Tanselle, 57, was named President. Her daily activity will imply reporting directly to Executive Chairman Ilyas Khan. Apparently, her superior said that Tanselle's new position... |
13 October 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Enbridge enterprise, in partnership with Renewable Energy Systems Americas, has managed to complete their 535 million dollars wind energy project, by opening a new plant in Colorado. The company's main objective has been the development of 250-megawatt Cedar Point project, which exploit the benefits of wind ener... |
13 October 2011
06:16 GMT |
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announce the development of a new source of clean, domestic energy, which they plant to put through the test next year. If everything goes well, then the United States will have a new method of producing elect... |
9 August 2011
04:11 GMT |
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A study currently conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could finally allow for the construction of windows that have solar cells embedded in them. Researchers in Cambridge are now developing transparent cells that can use light while at the same time allowing it to pass through.There are some ... |
15 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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According to the results of a long-anticipated document, it would appear that it is both feasible and affordable to run the entire world on renewable and alternative energy within four decades.The Energy Report, which experts worked on for more than two years, shows that all electricity produced in the world in 2050 ... |
3 February 2011
09:11 GMT |
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A new analysis demonstrates that the United States can move to getting its power from clean and sustainable sources even today, using existing technologies, and costs roughly comparable to those associated with conventional energy. However, the societal and political will for this are lacking.There are, in essence, t... |
26 January 2011
06:04 GMT |
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In December 2010, a high-level panel of experts met in Cambridge, Massachusetts to discuss how to overhaul the transportation system of the United States, and set in on a path towards relying on electrical and hybrid vehicles. The conclusions of those discussions have just been made public. According to those who par... |
24 January 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Agua Caliente Solar, LLC has just received a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy (DOE), for loan guarantees extending to a maximum sum of $967 million. The money are destined for a solar power facility that will become the largest of its kind in the world. The planned, 290-megawatt photovoltaic so... |
21 January 2011
05:41 GMT |
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A researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) recently announced the development of a new computer model, which takes into account a number of factors when determining what technology authorities should opt for when it comes to energy production. Sadly, at this time, financial concerns are the only o... |
28 December 2010
09:43 GMT |
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Researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, will receive important funds to study methods of improving electricity transport and distribution, through smart power grid systems. Their job will be to come up with efficient, cost-effective ways of doing so. University researchers will get $1.2 million ... |
19 November 2010
06:02 GMT |
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Investigators in Austria are currently working on a new method of estimating the amount of electricity that wind farms will generate given a specified area and a type of wind patterns.The researchers are looking at several prediction methods, comparing them against each other and with real-life production numbers, in... |
25 October 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Officials in Washington announced that the White House will get a new set of solar panels on its roof, as well as a solar hot water heater, as part of ongoing efforts to raise awareness on the fact that alternative energy is readily available. At this point, solar panels are no longer prohibitively expensive, and an ... |
6 October 2010
05:43 GMT |
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A team of experts believes it may have just developed a way of using nanoscale wires for conducting artificial photosynthesis. If scalable and affordable, the new method could innovate global energy production.The reason why nanowires are used is the fact that they have demonstrated the ability to split water molecul... |
23 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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A team of investigators believes using a series of technologies developed for space exploration could help companies that construct large-scale solar power plants keep their panels clean. If dusting your carpet or curtains seems difficult, image how hard the task of cleaning up 50-football-field-worth of solar panel ... |
23 August 2010
05:23 GMT |
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British researchers from the Imperial College London (ICL) and the University of Cambridge are currently proposing a new long-term plan for supplying the world with electricity, which would see nuclear energy brought to the spotlight yet again.The 20-year-long master plan foresees the development of safe nuclear reac... |
13 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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The Hawaiian Archipelago, more precisely its Leeward side, is the perfect place to construct a renewable energy power plant, experts say. According to a new series of studies, this is the ideal location to construct facilities that rely on the ocean's seawater to drive impressively large turbines. These heat eng... |
4 August 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The most important goal for all companies working in the solar power industry is to produce solar cells that are capable of attracting as much light as possible. The more photons strike a material, the more electricity is produced via this method, and all solar cell builders are currently trying to obtain a very high... |
4 August 2010
08:16 GMT |
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One of the main reasons why alternative forms of energy production such as solar, wind, and geothermal power are not common today is the fact that they carry very high prices. In addition, obtaining energy from solar plants, wind farms and geothermal stations is an inconsistent process, in the sense that the amount o... |
2 August 2010
11:07 GMT |
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For many years, researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been renowned around the country for their involvement in battery studies,. Physicists here have studied everything from advanced power storage devices to fuel cells, and this made them th... |
30 July 2010
03:12 GMT |
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Yesterday, the US Deputy Secretary of Energy, Daniel Poneman, announced that the federal government has just allotted more than $122 million for the creation of an Energy Innovation Hub. The organization will be responsible for researching and developing new fuels, using nothing more than sunlight. The money, which w... |
23 July 2010
04:53 GMT |
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For the past three decades, there have been no new nuclear power plants built in the United States. The Three Mile Island incident, in 1979, persuaded the public opinion to turn against this form of energy, on account of it being too dangerous. The last order for such a plant that was actually carried out came in 197... |
21 October 2009
03:27 GMT |
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In the race towards creating more eco-friendly materials and devices, there are several chemicals that do the job as well as established ones, but with less of a carbon footprint. Such is the case with rare earth metals, which are minerals from which a variety of compounds necessary for constructing hybrid cars and w... |
31 August 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Two researchers recently proposed in the journal Renewable Energy that mine shafts about to be abandoned could be used to extract alternative thermal energy from the ground, helping meet local towns' power demands even after the coal yield became insufficient to keep the mine open. The internal heat of the Earth... |
27 July 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have recently released a new set of statistics, showing that the ratio of alternative energy to fossil fuels noticeably increased in 2008, as opposed to 2007. Wind farms, solar stations, geothermal plants and biofuels ... |
21 July 2009
08:44 GMT |
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced recently that the city would move towards gradually reducing, and eventually eliminating, the use of coal in its power plants by 2020, in a bid to combat air pollution, global warming, and climate change. This move is only the latest in a row coming from California, th... |
4 July 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Biofuel, obtained from the filtered residual oils of numerous types of plants, including algae, maize, sugar cane, and so on, has long been touted as the way to go in the fight against global warming. Its proponents say that it offers an inexpensive way of replacing fossil fuels, and of reducing emissions associated ... |
17 June 2009
04:20 GMT |
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One of the biggest challenges opposing the wide-scale introduction of hydrogen cars on public roads is the fact that hydrogen fuel sources are still fairly large and cumbersome, and they cannot be easily carried around. For long voyages in fuel cell-powered vehicles, having a spare is a must, but the large dimensions... |
12 May 2009
05:30 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has engaged in one of the largest scientific research initiatives of the last years, as it has begun to fund the construction of over 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers, to be errected all around America. One such institute will be built at Princeton University, wh... |
6 May 2009
14:11 GMT |
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UK-based enterprise Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd. is currently working on a new device meant to augment the electricity-producing abilities of wave-powered plants on shorelines, officials from the company have announced recently. The new instrument they've developed is an anaconda-shaped device, which is able to pick... |
6 May 2009
08:45 GMT |
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California took a giant leap forward on Thursday, when it became the first state in the world to impose regulations on gasoline and other fuels, with the purpose of reducing the environmental impact that they had. The move will force the market to look for cleaner alternatives, and has the potential to encourage inno... |
24 April 2009
09:30 GMT |
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The Russian government-held company Gazprom, the world's largest producer of natural gas, and the giant Shell Corporations have only recently signed an agreement that would basically allow the European monopoly to start selling its products on the US market, the largest of the kind in the world. The products wil... |
13 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Producing solar panels based on silicon technologies is still a very expensive way of addressing issues such as climate change and global warming, and the manufacturing process still presents fairly high costs. This means that the majority of the people will not be able to afford to buy and install solar panels on th... |
9 April 2009
04:48 GMT |
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The Tesla Motor Company seems to have hit the jackpot with its new Model S, following the success it had with the Roadster model in the past. According to the firm, more than 520 preorders have already been received for the all-electric automobile, even though the first ones are not scheduled to leave the assembly li... |
3 April 2009
08:47 GMT |
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One of the main goals in the field of hydrogen car research is the creation of a good fueling system. That is to say, a system that would allow travelers to fill their vehicles' fuel cells in less than 5 minutes, and then drive some 300 miles with a single charge. Making this happen is not as easy as it may seem... |
3 April 2009
06:04 GMT |
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A first-of-its-kind governmental survey in the US shows that over the last 40 years bird populations have declined dramatically, on account of a variety of causes, including global warming, increasing urban sprawl, and the appearance of new predator species in closed ecosystems. But regardless of the cause, in each a... |
20 March 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Coming up with an economically-sustainable alternative source of fuel is no easy task, and most existing methods of synthesizing such compounds either take up too much space, or are grown instead of crops that could have the potential of feeding a lot of people. Now, researchers in South Korea have managed to devise ... |
22 January 2009
03:17 GMT |
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The conclusion was presented to the world on Monday, by the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and the Greenpeace Organization, which proposed 2090 as the last target for complete renunciation of fossil fuels, including oil, natural gases and coal. The study estimates some $18 trillion savings in future fossil ... |
27 October 2008
08:13 GMT |
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Over the past few years, America has consolidated its role as a leader in the design, development and production of renewable energy, through its wind farms, solar plants and geothermal harvesters. The old economy, based on burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gases and coal, is being overrun by a new, cleaner one, whi... |
22 October 2008
11:29 GMT |
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The discovery was made by researchers at Oxford University analyzing a specific enzyme produced by fungi growing on rotten wood. The Laccase enzyme has an effect similar to that of platinum on electrodes composing a battery. Chemists say that their first prototype is able to supply more than 2,500 hours of life to an... |
11 October 2008
06:05 GMT |
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William Yuan, a Beaverton, Oregon 12-year boy, invented a new kind of solar cell that can absorb both visible and ultraviolet light. I bet this kind of news makes you feel pretty weird about your own accomplishments so far. It sure made me. And, to scare you even further, I took a look at little Will'... |
18 September 2008
10:30 GMT |
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North Carolina State University recently received a grant from NSF (the National Science Foundation) for the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy Delivery Management Systems they want to develop, dubbed "Internet for energy." The $18.5 million (about 13.5 million Euros) invested by NSF will prov... |
12 September 2008
06:42 GMT |
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A group of ten MIT students and staff members have taken part today in an experiment meant to power a computer using non-conventional energy sources. The experiment took place in the lobby of MIT's Stata Clara computing campus and demonstrated that computers can be powered using stationary bicycles. Five bikes h... |
21 December 2007
09:05 GMT |
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