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Toyota is eager to prove that its new Yaris Hybrid is capable of combining three awesome advantages: driving performance, correlated with sophisticated exterior design and a low level of CO2 emissions.
The company has recently released the first pictures and very little technical details, to keep potential buyers i... |
10 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) say that Opportunity will spend its next winter on the Red Planet at a location called Greeley Haven. Following preliminary analyses, the area promises to provide interesting science for a long time. The exploration robot is c... |
6 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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China is one step ahead in developing and implementing viable solutions to overcome the energy crisis. State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) has recently announced the completion of what appears to be the biggest, most eco-friendly battery energy storage station, built in Zhangbei, Hebei Province.
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4 January 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Photovoltaic solar panels are definitely not a new concept. Experts think they are close to raising the competitiveness of organic solar cells, making them appropriate alternatives to the already popular crystalline silicon.Heliatek thinks it is on the right path, since its sample cells displayed a 6.0 percent conver... |
10 December 2011
07:20 GMT |
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The Golden Temple, or the Temple of Goods, located in Amritsar, India highlights the strong connection between a deep respect for religion and a honest care for green values.
Authorities from the temple take into consideration the option of relying on modern, eco-friendly solutions to minimize the impact of pilgrim... |
22 November 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Most of the fans of renewables are already aware of the fact that solar finance company Solar Mosaic and Oakland’s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights worked in partnership to implement the benefits of renewable energy coming from the sun, while improving and greening the lives of people from the Oakland’... |
12 November 2011
04:38 GMT |
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Apparently, researchers are keen on sparing no efforts in coming up with new ideas which could fasten the development of renewables. The scientists from DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in partnership with the MIT team of experts have launched an online tool named the Materials Project, which acts lik... |
11 November 2011
11:02 GMT |
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At times when governments don't seem eager to invest in renewables, scientists try to improve the alternative sources of energy on their own. Solar power, considered to be one of the safest, most efficient means of producing green energy still requires a lot of improvements.
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11 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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It is generally accepted that the expansion of alternative sources of energy will influence the development of national economies worldwide. This time, Greece tries to apply the benefits of the solar industry, in order to pay its debt and overcome the national crisis it is presently experiencing.
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1 November 2011
06:18 GMT |
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IKEA redefined, in time, its position as a major company keen on respecting its customers and earth-friendly values. The company focuses on making profit, while trying to decrease the potential negative effect its activity might have upon the environment. The individuals and enterprises that choose to decorate their ... |
19 October 2011
10:02 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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Coming from Etón Corporation, the Mobius rechargeable battery case with solar panel designed specifically for the iPhone 4 is now availale for purchase at Amazon.com.With a retail price of $80, the Mobius is also capable of preventing the iPhone’s back-glass from being scratched.Fitted with a high-effici... |
19 September 2011
13:17 GMT |
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Sporting venues are increasingly turning to solar panels systems to generate clean electricity for their venues because of their important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and operational costs.Gehrlicher Ecoluz Solar do Brazil S.A has recently been awarded a contract for the planning and construction of the... |
16 September 2011
07:30 GMT |
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The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards will mark solar energy’s first starring role in U.S. entertainment culture, thanks to a canopy of 225 high-performance solar panels from SolarWorld that will be used to power the red carpet.Some of the hottest names in American television will step onto the red carpet located outs... |
16 September 2011
03:02 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, the last of the three massive solar panels that will power up NASA's next Jupiter-bound spacecraft was folded into its final launch configuration, after having successfully completed a wide array of tests meant to assess its functionality.The tests were carried out by engineers at a Titusvi... |
28 May 2011
02:25 GMT |
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The most abundant source of renewable energy has always been the Sun, but technologies available to us today make it impossible to convert its heat and light into electricity in an efficient manner. Now, experts develop a new approach to doing so, that is 8 times more effective than any others.
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3 May 2011
02:46 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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Although solar power is most likely our best bet for the future of renewable energy, the truth of the matter is that, for the time being, the level of efficiency delivered by solar panels is still rather limited, compared to their full potential that, however, might actually be a lot closer, due to a breakthrough 3-d... |
20 January 2011
01:47 GMT |
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A team of Swedish researchers came up with a way of connecting solar panels to the existing boiler within a house.This means that people who wanted to do so but had to spend a lot of money, will afford to turn to solar power to heat their water.Previous systems needed the house owners to change boilers, making the ne... |
13 January 2011
06:15 GMT |
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Sanyo's been one of the best-known names in solar-panel research for quite some time now, but it seems that they've managed to take this technology to a whole new level, since they've just revealed the fact that they've started mass producing the world's most efficient solar panels.According ... |
6 December 2010
05:31 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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Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, are working on improving the performances of water-based lithium-ion batteries. This might just be the new safer and cheaper way of storing power from solar panels or wind turbines.Common lithium-ion batteries are made from two electrodes within a liquid electrolyte... |
9 August 2010
03:07 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have recently finished developing a new type of tiny solar cells. The new devices are no larger than the pieces of glitter that can be seen adorning holiday cards and hats, and can therefore even be woven into clothes, their cre... |
29 December 2009
03:06 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was arguably one of the most successful NASA missions to Mars, and not necessarily in terms of endurance, but when considering the scale of its discovery. Born out of a previous lander's failure, the robot managed to successfully land on the Red Planet in search of water-ice and touch dow... |
17 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Scientists at the Boston College recently announced that they managed to devise a new type of very thin solar cells, which are able to harvest the energy stored in so-called “hot electrons.” These particles are generated as free electrons, when photons making up light are captured by the components of reg... |
11 December 2009
10:21 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tel Aviv University (TAU), in Israel, announce the development of nanoscale peptide assemblies, which hold great promise for creating a new class of coatings. They could be used for solar panels, or for windows, and could endow these structures with the ability to clean themselves, and always retain... |
4 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that hovercraft are usually used for navigating swamps and shallow waters, a few modifications are, apparently, enough to turn them into potent scientific tools. Researchers Yngve Kristofferson and John Hall are planning to use a modified Griffon Hovercraft 2000TD to analyze a patch of Arctic sea... |
13 October 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Out of all the renewable sources of energy that could be tapped to create electricity, solar radiation is now, by far, the most favored. Although some may argue that geothermal energy is truly endless, the fact is that billions of dollars are currently being poured into research related to creating more efficient and... |
18 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Over the past few years, large amounts of efforts and considerable sums of money were poured by governments into producing new generations and types of solar cells. While this may look like a good thing, industry officials say that the lack of funding for completely developing and scaling up the existing technologies... |
3 August 2009
03:05 GMT |
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A new design for growing optical semiconductors, created by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), will make efficient, low-coast, and flexible solar cells and panels a reality in the future. In the new proce... |
10 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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As an essential part of the United States' future energy security strategy, solar cells are now the object of a large-scale investigation, conducted by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) facility. The goal of the new study is to discover special coatings... |
26 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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A team of experts from the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has recently announced the development of a new type of material, an electronic glue that is able to bind nanocrystals together, and that also helps them pass electrical charge from one to the other. The find could have importa... |
12 June 2009
05:56 GMT |
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The process of photosynthesis is perhaps the most important one on Earth, as it is the source of our oxygen, and also a huge storage facility for atmospheric carbon dioxide, of which we pump copious amounts in the atmosphere. But one of the bases for this process is the vegetation's ability to capture and conver... |
5 May 2009
06:20 GMT |
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The growing effects of climate change and global warming have prompted a lot of companies and other entrepreneurs to start investing in renewable energy, such as solar power and wind farms. However, it would seem that a new problem is now emerging, namely the fact that large amounts of solar panels, scheduled to be c... |
30 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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At 3:13:17 pm EDT (1913:17 GMT) on Saturday, the Discovery STS-119 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) landed successfully at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its mission was deemed an astounding success, as the joint crew of NASA's veteran shuttle and that of the ISS managed to install the last... |
30 March 2009
03:34 GMT |
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After 8 days of joint missions with the three-member crew of the ISS, the Discovery space shuttle has undocked from the International Space Station yesterday, on its way towards its Saturday landing at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The most crucial phase of the STS-119 mission has thus been completed, and al... |
26 March 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Just as the space shuttle pulled apart from the ISS, its cameras recorded the first pictures of the completed orbital facility, with all its solar panels fully deployed. Discovery was brought about in a “victory lap” around the station, and so the first images became available. According to Mission Contro... |
26 March 2009
03:46 GMT |
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President Barack Obama has made a very long distance-call on Tuesday, when he made contact with the joint 10-member crew of astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station and the Discovery space shuttle. The President, who has called the crew from his Oval Office, has said, first of all, that everyone at... |
25 March 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the STS-119 Discovery mission will have the rest of Tuesday off from chores, in order to be able to spend some time together, before the shuttle leaves tomorrow. With yesterday's third and final spacewalk complete to a partial success, there are no impo... |
24 March 2009
09:43 GMT |
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More than 10 years ago, sixteen nations embarked on one of the most ambitious projects in the world, the construction of an orbital facility meant to provide the contributing countries with the opportunity to conduct zero-gravity scientific experiments, as well as to make other scientific observations from outside th... |
20 March 2009
11:38 GMT |
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On Thursday, two Discovery astronauts spent little over six hours installing the new S6 truss rod segment to the International Space Station (ISS)' starboard side. The operations began at 1:16 pm EDT (1716 GMT), and were carried out by mission specialists Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold II. With the successful... |
20 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Despite only having arrived aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, the crew of the Discovery shuttle has already begun working with the ISS one at deploying the last segment of the orbital facility's main truss, which is also outfitted with the last array of US solar panels. The operations that start... |
19 March 2009
03:23 GMT |
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The Discovery space shuttle finally completed a huge part of the STS-119 mission on Tuesday evening, when it finally docked on the International Space Station. The procedure ended at 5:19 pm EDT (2119 GMT) and the three astronauts aboard the orbital facility were very pleased to eventually be able to see other people... |
18 March 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The seven crew members aboard the STS-119 Discovery mission, which successfully launched yesterday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will inspect the heat shield on their shuttle for any signs of damage on Monday. They are scheduled to dock on the International Space Station tomorrow, and they have to... |
16 March 2009
11:15 GMT |
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Soon after Samsung announced the development of a solar-powered mobile phone that would be showcased at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, we learned that another Korean phone maker, LG Electronics, also came forward with a similar device, meant to be demoed at the show as well. Although LG h... |
13 February 2009
06:54 GMT |
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American Building Technologies, a subsidiary of Mulk Holdings, a multi-national group based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has managed to devise a new method of producing solar energy at a 50 percent lower cost, while at the same time increasing the efficiency of the entire process. The new production system is s... |
19 January 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Rev. Paolo Padrini, a “technology” priest, created an iTunes version of the Breviary, which he then made available for download to the Italian people, for a free trial. The new way of spreading the word of the Lord was ratified by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which says that the use o... |
23 December 2008
02:26 GMT |
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The Nervi Hall in the city-state of Vatican has been outfitted with some 2,400 photovoltaic cells, which will supply the 10,000-people capacity dome and some of its surrounding buildings with approximately 300,000 kilowatts-hour (KWH) of electricity throughout the year, thus reducing the state's dependency on It... |
26 November 2008
05:36 GMT |
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As our planet's natural resources are slowly nearing complete depletion, mankind is constantly on the look-out for new, alternative power sources. And one of the most promising such sources is solar power, which might become extremely important on the future as it can provide the required energy for one's d... |
11 July 2007
06:41 GMT |
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Telefonica's office complex situated in Madrid has developed a building concept that is meant to save a great amount of energy. Their solution comes in the shape of solar panels mounted on the entire surface of the building.The need for saving energy and reducing pollution has pushed Telefonica into setting an e... |
5 June 2007
02:18 GMT |
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