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Andreas Mershin, a researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a big dream, one that could potentially change some parts of the world. He believes that it is possible to create inexpensive solar panels from plant wastes, an inexpensive peptide powder, and an ordinary substrate material.
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3 February 2012
05:43 GMT |
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After absorbing, filtering and improving the information provided by previous models, Sauter Carbon Offset Design and Ned Ship Group declared that they are working on developing a product which might be considered, in a few years, "the fastest and greenest superyacht in the world."
Emax E-Volution is worth approxima... |
27 October 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Eaton Corporation has stated that officials managed to obtain $8.1 million contract from Abengoa Solar. As a result, the company will have to provide renewable energy distribution equipment for Solana Generating Station, which will most likely become one of the the largest solar power plants in the whole world. The... |
18 October 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Moser Baer Clean Energy Limited (MBCEL) and GE Energy Financial Services announced their partnership in developing a greenhouse in Sardinia, Italy. The officials are talking about a very ambitious project, that depends on the construction of a greenhouse able to use sunlight to grow crops and produce energy due to ... |
18 October 2011
09:49 GMT |
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The producers who manufacture photovoltaic solar panels on US territory have real reasons to manifest their excitement as researchers found that the American solar market has experienced a 69% growth so far, in 2011. Until the end of this year, it seems that numbers should increase, adding to those 1,750 megawatts in... |
14 October 2011
07:27 GMT |
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It looks like the Chevrolet division of General Motors is not all about making not so eco-friendly Camaros, but they also have an ambitious carbon-reduction goal of preventing up to 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the air during the next five years.The company has identified 16 projects across A... |
10 October 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Modernizing America’s electric grid is seen as a critical move for a more secure energy future of the country, so the Obama Administration decided to accelerate the process.
The White House recently announced it would speed up permitting of seven transmission lines as part of an interagency effort to move su... |
7 October 2011
01:08 GMT |
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As the European Union struggles to complete its crisis response mechanism, important figures in the markets of biomass for energy are worried that this situation could also affect renewable energy policy decisions.As governments focus on the economy, the development of energy policies and subsidies could be shad... |
6 October 2011
06:55 GMT |
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In an attempt to reduce its environmental footprint, Frito-Lay North America has engaged in a process that will see every of its plants getting closer to the near net zero status. The latest to reach that goal is its Casa Grande, Arizona, facility.This has been made possible through the use of renewable energy source... |
6 October 2011
03:19 GMT |
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The ambitious plans made by the EU currently seem unlikely to turn real, according to Niina Kautto, a researcher at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University. The EU aims at increasing the proportion of renewable energy to 20 percent by the year 2020, while at the same time... |
3 October 2011
12:59 GMT |
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A wide range of renewable energy generation projects are to be made possible in the New York State thanks to a $150 million fund made available by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Public Service Commission (PSC).There will be 51 large-scale renewable electricity generator... |
3 October 2011
12:10 GMT |
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University of Toronto chemistry professor Greg Scholes strongly believes that we can improve our renewable energy production methods by a wide margin, if only we could learn to emulate the highly-successful designs that can be met anywhere in nature. He is mostly referring to solar energy, as this is the vastest sour... |
23 September 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Researchers around the world have been working on developing biological fuel cells for many years, and now a team at the University of Cambridge has finally been able to demonstrate the technology.
In a new study, they were able to create fuel cells capable of harnessing energy from plants themselves, opening up a... |
22 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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A pilot project for managing hog waste started three years ago by Duke University and Duke Energy has just received an endorsement from Google. The technology corporation has stepped up its investments in carbon offset technology lately, to help bring its net carbon footprint down to zero. The university and the pow... |
13 September 2011
06:28 GMT |
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A collaboration of Belgian researchers, featuring members from the imec research center, Plextronics and Solvay, recently announced the development of a new type of organic solar cell. The device is more efficient than similar cells developed in the past, and has numerous applications.
The organic, polymer-based,... |
5 September 2011
10:30 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) just inaugurated a new research facility, whose main purpose is to boost the country's leadership in biofuel research. The installation is dedicated to studying all aspects of converting biomass to fuel. The new center... |
19 August 2011
04:22 GMT |
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On Thursday, June 2, a large crowd gathered in the Aquatic Park section of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), where it participated at the inauguration of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)-North facility. The new installation joins the Pa... |
7 June 2011
03:56 GMT |
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According to the latest report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it would seem that the world could get as much as 80 percent of its energy demands from renewable sources by 2050, if steps are taken now.In the landmark study, experts explain that policies to target such ... |
11 May 2011
08:12 GMT |
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According to the latest scientific study on the issue, global warming and climate change will not affect the power output of wind farms in any discernible manner. Slight fluctuations are likely to appear, but they will not influence the overall production levels significantly.While the work needs to be expanded to an... |
3 May 2011
10:32 GMT |
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According to experts, Japan could switch from using fossil fuels and nuclear fission to renewable sources for its energy demands by 2050. The issue as to whether the will to do so exists is another matter entirely. But studies show that it's feasible to contemplate this idea. The Asian nation would become t... |
11 April 2011
04:43 GMT |
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The United States needs to develop its offshore wind capabilities as fast as possible, top US officials agree, and this is why the funds allotted for supporting the development of such projects have just been boosted by an additional $50.5 million. The announcement was made yesterday, January 7, by Secretary of the I... |
8 February 2011
04:50 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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As eco-consciouness becomes an increasingly important trend, more and more manufacturers start coming up with a series of products designed to take advantage of this renewable power source, the latest to do so being the Universal Power Group, who's just unveiled the Ecotricity line of solar powers, while making ... |
3 January 2011
09:46 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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Officials at the Lockheed Martin corporation announce that the company has just received a $4.4 million contract from authorities in the United States. The money is meant to further and support the development of an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot plant design. The renewable energy facility will be ... |
23 November 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Officials at the Boeing Company announce that the corporation has begun to mass-produce the C3MJ+, which is the newest type of terrestrial solar cell developed by the wholly-owned subsidiary Spectrolab. The cells have a conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, meaning that they convert more than a third of the total am... |
22 November 2010
09:57 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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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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As time passes, it becomes increasingly clear that fossil fuels will no longer be able to cut it in terms of servicing our power needs without destroying Earth. Experts say that hydrogen, the most abundant substance in the Universe, is the chemical of the future. Electricity coming from alternative sources is current... |
1 November 2010
11:50 GMT |
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A collaboration of national departments in the United States has agreed to allot more than $5 million in grant money to research dealing with furthering the use of renewable energy in the nation. The money were alloted to investigators conducting studies into offshore and onshore wind power generation, as well as in ... |
27 October 2010
04:16 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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Swedish energy company Vattenfall, has partnered with Germany's largest municipal utility to build a huge offshore wing farm in the North Sea, of a value of over 1 billion euros, by 2014.The wind farm is called DanTysk and it will contain 80 giant wind turbines supplied by Siemens, spaced out over an area of nea... |
22 October 2010
10:26 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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Renewable marine sources could contribute to covering an estimated 50 percent of all energy needs in Europe by no later than 2050, provided that action to support such a scenario is taken now.A new report on the issue was presented at the EurOCEAN 2010 conference, by researchers at the Marine Board of the European Sc... |
12 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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With the depletion of the world's fossil fuel reserves staring us in the face, we need to realize that we are now heading towards the Big Transition, which will seriously test our resolve, a new report shows.According to many analysts, the Peak Oil event and the subsequent drop in resources are the main events t... |
8 October 2010
09:08 GMT |
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Officials at Berkeley Lab announce that their facility has been selected to lead an international consortium that will manage the creation of a US-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency at the Lab. The establishment of the Clean Energy Resource Center (CERC) was announced formally by US Pres... |
8 October 2010
04:26 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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Until now, experts have placed a lot of emphasis on producing solar cells that are as smooth as possible, but a recent investigation suggests they may have been on a wild goose chase all along. Investigators from the Stanford University have shown in a new set of experiments that roughening silicon wafers up a bit re... |
28 September 2010
07:46 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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Geothermal energy could be the solution to all our energy needs – present and future, experts say. The source is nearly inexhaustible, and is located just under our feet. We only need to reach out and take it. Geologists estimate that massive amounts of heat exist in the planet's crust, mantle and core. Th... |
6 September 2010
10:57 GMT |
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A new study shows that, even with all their downfalls, fossil fuels are still reigning supreme when it comes to people' choices for fueling cars, power plants and so on.Even though scientists across the globe are drawing attention to the fact that fossil fuels need to be replaced, authorities seem to be unwillin... |
25 August 2010
05:58 GMT |
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The goal of producing electricity through renewable, clean methods has been with science for many years, but it has taken on new significance over the past couple of decades. The threats of global warming and climate change have placed more emphasis on deriving electricity from the Sun, wind, Earth's heat and so... |
2 June 2010
06:03 GMT |
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In 2006, when the first cost estimates for the planned ITER experimental fusion reactor were presented to the international partners, countries decided that the investment was worth pursuing. Over the past four years, however, things changed considerably, and the tokamak now comes with an estimated €15-billion (... |
29 May 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Though solar panel technology has come a long way over the past few years, it is still plagued by low conversion rates. This means that only a small portion of the sunlight that hits the panels actually gets converted to electricity. In a bid to increase efficiency rates, researchers turned to nature, and looked at h... |
11 May 2010
06:04 GMT |
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While constructing a wind farm may not seem overly complex, the challenges associated with placing turbines at an off-shore location are monumental. Foundations need to be set in place at the correct location, and secured tightly to the bottom of the sea or ocean. Then, the machines themselves need to be constructed ... |
3 May 2010
09:21 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in the United States, are currently engaged in a three-year effort of determining whether the construction of wind turbines in the deep-ocean, atop giant floating platforms, is a viable method of producing electricity. Strong winds blow at these l... |
29 April 2010
06:45 GMT |
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At this point, hydrogen is one of the most important chemicals in the world. It helps produce a wide variety of compounds for the chemical industry. Unfortunately, this is one of the few areas of science where the gas seems to excel, in spite of scientists' best efforts of turning it into a next-generation fuel.... |
14 April 2010
08:43 GMT |
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A patch of seemingly-inhospitable terrain in Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates, will within 5 to 10 years become home to the first city in the world that will be completely carbon-neutral. The goal is to construct a city of about 50,000 without relaying on dirty technologies and fossil fuels at all. Given t... |
29 March 2010
03:36 GMT |
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A group of experts is currently working on investigating a method of using the vast amounts of carbon dioxide gas that are emitted around the world for creating alternative fuels. The research is centered on developing advanced, porous materials that could eventually be used to store the excess CO2 gas, which th... |
24 March 2010
09:50 GMT |
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