Posts Tagged environment

Novotech's System Generates Renewable Energy from Asphalt

Posted by Mike Sandru in Thermoelectric on October 27, 2009

Scientists at Novotech and two Massachusetts universities are working to create a new system that could channel heat from asphalt and other paving materials into clean and usable energy.

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Toyota Launching EV Charging Station at Tokyo Motor Show

Posted by Cristi in Car industry, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage on October 27, 2009

This year’s Tokyo Motor Show was dominated by the Nippon market, Alpina and Lotus being the only foreigners with a stand at the show. Big companies like Daihatsu, Honda, Toyota, Suzuki, Nissan and Mitsubishi presented a lot of new concepts and hybrid or electric cars.

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Oceanlinx Prepares to Deploy 2.5MW Tidal Power System Near Sydney

Posted by Cristi in Wave power on October 26, 2009

Engineers are performing the last tests and measurements before the grid-connection off the coast of Port Kembla, near Sydney. The system will be generating about 2.5MW by harvesting air pressure that will turn a wind turbine.

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Precision Nanoparticles Technology to Revolutionize Solar Cells

Posted by Cristi in New Inventions, Solar Power on October 23, 2009

The chemists from the Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University may have found the gold mine of solar energy efficiency. They invented the manufacturing of a highly precise and uniform nanopaticle that improves solar cells and further spurs the growing nanotech revolution.

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SEADOG Uses Waves' Own Power to Desalinate Sea Water

Posted by Cristi in Water Purifiers, Wave power on October 21, 2009

A company called Renew Blue, Inc. will use wave power to run a desalination plant in Freeport, Texas. The resulted water will be finally put into corn-based biodegradable plastic bottles. The SEADOG power system is made from a buoy which puts in motion a piston mechanism that rotates a water wheel to generate electricity.

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Meteosat Used to Detect Faulty Solar Panel Power Stations

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power on October 19, 2009

Italy is known for its plans to develop photovoltaic power as one of their main sources of energy. Having such a wide experience in solar power harvesting, several issues arise regarding the solar panels’ maintenance. Every PV plant has a sensor verifying the quantity of light arriving at its location at any given moment during the day.

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Prius Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV) Present at Tokyo Motor Show

Posted by Cristi in Electric Vehicles, Hybrid vehicles on October 18, 2009

A long time ago, Toyota Motor Corporation has started its green thinking trend with hybrid cars which revolutionized fuel consumption. Now they found a way to combine electric vehicles with hybrid ones and they presented their concept just days before the Tokyo Motor Show.

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Redox Flow Batteries: a Quickly-Charging Alternative to Li-Ion?

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 14, 2009

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) in Pfintzal, near Karlsruhe, propose an alternative to the lazily-charging Lithium-Ions: the redox flow batteries.

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New Method of Guiding Light Through Polymer Helps Solar Cells Get Cheaper

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Solar Power on October 14, 2009

New research is paving the pathway towards better and more efficient solar cells, as University of Florida chemists have invented a method of “hacking” the molecular structures of the materials the solar cells are made of, in order to gain a maximum transfer efficiency from them.

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New Ceramic Material Makes Fuel Cells Capable of Using Normal Fuels

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on October 13, 2009

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a new type of ceramic material that could widen the uses of SOFCs, so they could also be used with a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels, without the need of separating hydrogen or cleaning them.

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Reducing Coal CO2 Emissions with Chilled-Ammonia Technology

Posted by Cristi in Climate Change on October 12, 2009

The coal based power plant located in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin in Kenosha County called Pleasant Prairie Power Plant has generated approximately 1,226 MW of electricity in 2006, being one of the largest generating stations in Wisconsin.

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NASA to Make Its Future Rocket Fuel From Water and Aluminum

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on October 9, 2009

At first, I found it surprising, but when I did some research and had a second though about it, I learned that when NASA or any other space agency launches a space ship, it consumes about 773 tons of ammonium perchlorate, and releases some 230 tons of hydrochloric acid immediately after launch.

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IAV to Release On-the-fly Charging System for Electric Cars in 3 Years

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Car industry, Electric Vehicles on October 8, 2009

A German supplier of electronics and powertrain design to most of the major automakers for the last 25 years gives a solution to both the battery and the car manufacturers. The company is called IAV (Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr), and their solution is to charge the electric cars on-the-go through electromagnetic induction.

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The Sea Snake: Scotland's 750kW Wave Powered Project

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wave power on October 6, 2009

Scotland built a 180 m tube they call “The Sea Snake”, that will capture the waves’ movements and energy and transmit it via subshore cables to the land.

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The Napa Winery Making Hydrogen from Grape Wastewater

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on October 6, 2009

Napa Wine Company in Oakville found an interesting way of producing hydrogen by using the winery’s own wastewater, using naturally-occurring bacteria and a small amount of electricity to extract hydrogen the organic material they usually throw away,with a generator the size of a refrigerator.

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