Renewable Energy from Volcanoes to Power Island of St. Lucia
According to a new study, the Caribbean islands represent one of the perfect location for the development of renewable energy.
VF 247 – Vodafone's First Solar Powered Mobile Handset for India
I order to help India's rural masses who lack electricity, Vodafone Essar Ltd. recently developed a solar-powered mobile phone. According to officials, there are almost 20 million new mobile subscribers each month in India.. The problem is that many of them live in rural areas, where the energy supply can be patchy at best.
Capstone Microturbine and Heliofocus CSPs Working Together Efficiently in Israel
We've been talking about the Capstone Turbine Corporation a long time ago. They used their turbines to everything from cars to solar generators. Now, Capstone and HelioFocus (a company specialized in solar concentrators) announced today their first product that converts sunlight into electricity. The solar receiver is from Heliofocus and the turbine from Capstone.
Installation of Largest Rooftop Solar Project in Portland Finally Completed
Portland General Electric and ProLogis have managed to finish what they started in March 2010, bringing their total solar build-out to 3.5 MW of solar energy. Atop of 7 ProLogis distribution warehouses in Clackamas, Portland and Gresham were installed 673,000 square-foot panels producing 2.4 megawatt of solar power.
A New Research Center to Develop Methods of Generating Fuel from Sunlight
A new research center in California is about to be established after the U.S. Department of Energy has invested $122 million. Researchers from the new center will try to find ways of generating fuels made by using sunlight. The project will be led by a team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Caltech.
Scientists Discover How to Extract Hydrogen From Waste Vegetable Oils
Waste vegetable oils have previously been used to fuel older diesel engines, but until now nobody succeeded to extract the hydrogen in them and to sequester the carbon dioxide with cheap and affordable technologies. Leeds University scientists have broken the ice and discovered an energy efficient method of extracting both hydrogen and carbon dioxide from otherwise disposable vegetable oils.
Chevy Volt to Use AFS Trinity's Ultracapacitors for Better Acceleration / Regenerative Braking
Hybrid and electric cars both have regenerative braking systems, which transfer the energy otherwise lost as heat back into electricity, by switching the motor's function from its normal one into an electricity generator when the driver pushes the brake pedal.
India Plans to Generate 1,000 MW of Solar Power by 2013
Among the most important solar power harnessing nations like Spain, Japan or Germany, India decided to produce 1,000 MW of solar power by 2013.
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Porsche Going to Make Electric Sports Car: Not Yet, Though
It's been a while since Porsche made an electric car, just like I wrote a week ago, after admiring the creator's first EV at the Technical Museum in Vienna. Just like then, nowadays the Porsche car company (acquired by VW) is preparing to take off on the track of electric cars, and releases press announcements and teases us with concepts of what their first sports electric car is going to be.
Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells: A New Graphene-Based, Flexible Kind of Cell
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California has published a paper in the most recent journal ACS Nano, revealing a new approach to solar cells. Specifically, they combined graphene, one of the most recent and studied materials discovered, and organic (Graetzel) solar cells. Their project has produced organic photovoltaic cells (OPV).
