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Toyota to Introduce Six New Hybrid Vehicles By The End of 2012
According to a top research and development executive, Toyota Motor Corp wants to launch six new hybrid vehicles into the market until 2012 and to introduce an electric vehicle to the U.S. roads by the end of this year.
Siemens Invests in India's Renewable Energy Sector
Siemens, one of the companies with a huge potential in the solar and wind business, infrastructure and industry solutions provider, began operations in the renewable energy field in India by creating an office in Vadodara.
Angel Car Becomes World's First Mobile Charging Station
A Swiss company has found a new method to charge electric vehicles if they run out of power or when they are away from home. Called Angel Car, the company's new mobile charging station is located inside the back of a van that can be driven anywhere electric cars need electricity.
Russia's First Biofuel Plant To Be Built In Siberia Next Year
If you thought that only the Americans and the Europeans have plans to green themselves up, then you were wrong. Russia, still one of the world's biggest economical powers, plans to start building the country's first biofuel plant in Siberia.
Solar Cells Featuring Carbon Nanotube Antennas Concentrate Light 100 Times
These days, MIT chemical engineers have come up with a new approach to concentrate solar power by 100 times without needing any lenses, mirrors or anything else than the solar cell itself.
Polar Bear Hugs Nissan LEAF Owner In The Company's Most Touching Ad
Nice idea for a car that pretends itself to be more than hybrids are, and though less than fuel cell powered ones. Batteries are still a pollution factor, but hydrogen extracted by solar power means are not.
New Stretchable Conductive Material Could Find Uses In Organic/Thin Film Solar Cells
Stretchable solar cells and other flexible electronic devices can celebrate the making of a material developed by three institutions from Germany and Japan called the "silver particle-containing polyurethane base electric wiring."
Fungus Genes Could Help Make Ethanol From Wood Chips and Switchgrass
According to a group of scientists, genes copied from a common fungus could make the production of ethanol from wood chips and grass (abundant materials) much easier. If this experiment will be a success, it could one day help ethanol compete with gasoline.
Vinalhaven, Maine, Has Three Noisy Wind Turbines That Stir Disputes
Wind turbines are not always friendly with their neighbors, because they emit loud sounds and disturb the normal activity of people, especially during nighttime. There are regulations to this, but they are interpretable, even in the eyes of experts, who see the same numbers and tell two different stories.
SunPower To Use Ice and Batteries For Storing Solar Energy
Storage technologies are often a roadblock for alternative energy, because of its intermittent nature. Utilities producing power from wind or solar, for example, have to develop ways of storing the energy for the periods when there isn't such a great demand on the grid, and the produced power is higher than the consumed.
