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Following the trend of green revolutionary concepts, experts have scaled up efforts to introduce new materials, like black silicon or solar paint, whose results look good on paper, but their actual level of efficiency proved outside the labs is still far from making them truly competitive with traditional sources of ... |
19 January 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Developers plan to work on their technology harvesting and exploiting wave power, to offer it to households at unbeatable prices, lower than those displayed by natural gas and all the other alternative options.
After completing the work at their first test site, located at Ukraine's Institute for Hydromechanic... |
9 January 2012
05:26 GMT |
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AORA Solar is one step closer to proving that major projects involving renewable power are reliable options, especially nowadays when fossil fuel resources are limited and expensive.
The company has succeeded in completing the construction of a hybrid gas turbine solar thermal power station, located in Almeria, Spa... |
5 January 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Solar power could become truly competitive with other sources of energy within a few years, due to a new technology seeking to harness and store sunlight even after the sun has gone down.
It is currently tested by two major companies from California: SolarReserve and BrightSource, the Telegraph informs.
The proce... |
3 January 2012
04:19 GMT |
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The Environmental Protection Agency EPA has recently announced it is going to support a stricter set of regulations aiming to control the activity of some of the most polluting US power plants that develop oil and coal-burning operations. The anticipated changes are expected by the end of this week, believed to cur... |
13 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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The European Environment Agency says that major European facilities have to take €169 Billion ($223 billion) our of their pockets to minimize the impact of industrial pollution upon public health and the wellbeing of the environment.
In order to reach a pertinent conclusion EEA analyzed the level of pollution b... |
25 November 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Nowadays, solar industry is considered to be one of the most viable green options to replace the dirty polluting options commonly used in power plants all across the Globe. A recent poll revealed the fact that 9 out of 10 Americans support the industry and blame the Obama administration for not properly exploring th... |
4 November 2011
04:15 GMT |
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The owners of hybrid vehicles are well aware of the benefits they experience on the road, as their cars are powered by a mixture of gas and electricity. At this point in time, scientists from Tel Aviv University are trying to expand the area in which these advantages can be applied, by turning the power plants into ... |
4 November 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Bergamo Acquisition Corporation, a US-based energy company has signed a partnership with an Indian company to set up 1,000 MW of solar thermal power across India.The company will own 60% of the project and it has already chosen six sites, one in each state, for setting the six 100 MW power plants, whose capacity is s... |
13 October 2010
10:44 GMT |
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One of the three “erupting” lakes in the world, Lake Kivu, is part of Rwanda's plan of new energy sources.Even though the lake appears to be calm and harmless, it is more of a ticking time bomb due to the dissolved volcanic gases trapped in its waters.If the methane and carbon dioxide within these re... |
20 August 2010
03:28 GMT |
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The US Congress now finds itself in a dilemma – how to impose changes in the way America produces electrical energy, while at the same time keeping standards high. And the best place to start thinking about this is the Capital Power Plant, a 99-year-old facility that is supplying power to the important building... |
2 March 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The major coal ash spill that occurred in eastern Tennessee on Monday covered an area of approximately 400 acres in debris from a retention lake near the Kingston Fossil Plant. The Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest utility company in the United States, assured the locals that the water was safe to drink, despit... |
29 December 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Although portions of the coastline where sea and ocean waves are strong enough to generate large amounts of electricity are readily available and very wide spread, harnessing the power of the waves is not as easy as it may seem at first. Corrosion due to the salt in the water damages even the most resistant materials... |
17 December 2008
08:30 GMT |
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The construction of new coal-powered power plants in the US has now grinded to an almost complete standstill, because tighter carbon capture and storage regulations are in place in most states. And because most builders cannot afford the technology needed for sequestration, they simply prefer not to build the plant a... |
5 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Tarong Power is one of the main electricity suppliers in Queensland, where it's responsible for producing some 25 percent of the demand in the region. It has three major, coal-fired plants. Two of those, Tarong and Tarong North, engulf approximately 7 million tonnes of coal from the nearby mines of the company e... |
11 November 2008
08:45 GMT |
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The Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Pepperidge bakery now relies on its recently-built fuel cell power plants for 70% of its electrical energy requirements. The excess heat generated in the process is also used for baking purposes, reducing the pollution generated by CO2 emissions in the process. The recent partne... |
16 October 2008
04:57 GMT |
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China is currently unparalleled in its expansion of the electrical supply sector, as several new massive power plants go online in the country every week. For now, their power grid is second only to that of the U.S. but at the rate things are going, it's safe to assume that, in a few years, the Chinese will deve... |
7 October 2008
09:26 GMT |
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Usually, billboards take high amounts of energy from the power grid in order to light up, especially during night time. However, this is about to change, as an electricity supplier from California has installed the first electric energy generating billboard in the U.S. This device produces energy with the help of 20 ... |
5 December 2007
09:44 GMT |
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