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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) have recently created a new solar energy-storage system, which they say will completely revolutionize the way this type of power is used. This video sees the technology's inventor explain how it works. One of the primary issues related to using solar... |
5 October 2011
05:30 GMT |
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In order to accommodate fluctuating power inputs, future energy grids will have to have the ability to store electricity in dedicated batteries. Thus far, creating such energy-storage devices has proven to be very difficult, but now a Pittsburgh-based company believes it may have come up with a solution.
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28 September 2011
08:58 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Rice University, in the United States, announces the development of a new manufacturing technique, that allows them to “amplify” the production of carbon nanotubes. The innovation will play a critical role in developing efficient electric grids in the near future.According ... |
15 July 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Scientists gathered at a workshop held on June 21 in Washington DC agreed that Earth needs a unified approach to defending against the effects of potentially-devastating solar flares. The experts called into view the September 1859 flare that caused widespread damage.At the time, the solar storm that struck Earth was... |
23 June 2011
03:57 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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The western region of India will become one of the most interesting in the world in terms of what type of energy it uses. Authorities in Delhi, in collaboration with the Japanese government, plan to build here no less than 24 “green” cities, in what amounts to one of the most ambitious infrastructure proj... |
29 November 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) say that the common idea held by poor and developing nations, that reducing greenhouse gas emissions equates keeping poverty levels high, is a misconception that needs to be fought. The developing world is currently emitting increasing amounts of pollution... |
26 November 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Space-based solar power could become a reality soon, if plans to deal with the emerging global energy crisis are developed in time. The world is gradually starting to reach Peak Oil, and governments need to plan ahead to prevent shortages.The alternative forms of energy production that we currently have, such as for ... |
10 November 2010
04:14 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce the development of a new defensive measure against solar flares. Dubbed Solar Shield, the new system can provide ample forewarning on incoming solar storms, which can fry satellites and disrupt Earth-based power grids.Powerful Sun storms can release massive streams of e... |
8 November 2010
09:13 GMT |
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Representatives from four cities in Japan are pledging to reduce the electricity consumption and carbon footprint they leave behind, by employing technologies that go well beyond what are countries have planned at this point.These four urban centers will test to see if increase reliance on renewable energies of all s... |
18 October 2010
05:05 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is currently conducting work into a new type of technology that, once completed, could eliminate an important bottleneck from the path of producing renewable energy.At this point, authorities and relevant actors avoid investing money in large-scale ... |
28 September 2010
02:06 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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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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For anyone living in the countryside, or at the edge of large cities, the sight of massive electricity poles is a very familiar one. These large structures, which can at times be as much as 12 feet wide and 100 feet (33 meters) high, are extremely resilient to a host of factors, but they are by no means invulnerable.... |
12 May 2010
09:58 GMT |
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As our Sun is beginning to wake up from its prolonged period of solar minimum, researchers are again starting to take interest in the possible effects that this awakening may have on our planet. Earth itself is at no risk from these outbursts of hot, ionized gas from the star, but everything that operates with electr... |
8 April 2010
17:31 GMT |
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In their perennial quest to developing new methods of increasing energy efficiency, and reducing consumption and waste, researchers have recently come up with a new concept that could see that happening. They argue that creating neighborhood grids, which could act like autonomous, smaller versions of the national pow... |
23 February 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Regularly, when air conditioning (AC) machines run low on internal refrigerants, they need to work over-time in order to compensate for the loss. This translates into a greater strain the machines place on the electrical power grid, and also a significantly increased power bill for the average consumer. Now, experts ... |
24 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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