The Energy Harvesting Open Access Data Repository Gathering Energy Information for Scientists
Why would anyone want a database of energy harvesting? Well, for one, such a database helps researchers in their work and second, you get...
Germany Uses More Renewable Energy Than Ever Before, Surpassing Nuclear
Among the world's most developed countries, Germany seems to be on the right track concerning renewable energy production. The country's renewable resources have been...
Europe Consortium Planning to Harvest Arabic Desert's Sun
One of Europe's most ambitious goals is to capture wind and solar energy across the Arab deserts to power homes in Africa, Middle East...
Chinese Coal Producer to Harvest Clean-Burning Combustible Ice
As China expects a period of peak energy demand from 2020 to 2025, its largest coal producer, China Shenhua Group, now announced that it...
Google Pulls Plug on Renewable Energy Project
Anyone knows that by trying to catch two (or more) rabbits at once you probably won't catch any. So does Google, it seems. Larry...
IBM and ABB Designing More Efficient Insulator for the Electricity Grid
IBM and ABB have decided to work together to find a better insulator for the electricity grid. They'll use IBM's supercomputers and ABB's expertise...
Heat Powered Cooling System Invented at OSU Is 80 Percent Efficient
A series of advanced studies in microchannel technology at Oregon State University has led to the invention of a waste heat recovering device that can convert heat into cooling with an 80% efficiency.
Arab Oil Prince Fears Rising Gas Prices, GE Forecasts Dawn of Solar Power
If you haven't been watching the news for the past few years, there's a war going on in the world of energy. While Arab Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the 19th richest person in the world and one of the ones who make a huge profit from oil, said to CNN he's worried about the prices of oil going up, Mark M. Little from GE tells Bloomberg that in 3 to 5 years we'll be able to produce electricity from solar panels for as little as 15 cents/kW, far less than by using oil.
GE Announces New Gas Turbine That Regulates The Electric Grid
As we have already said on numerous occasions, the problem with solar and wind energy is that it isn't available 24/7. Due to variations in the wind and solar intensity or presence, the energy generated would differ in quantity as well. So researchers have been looking for ways to store it for longer and have come up with geothermal and molten salt. Nevertheless, its incorporation into the grid also needs to be regulated.
U.N. Report Says 80% Energy Production From Renewables Possible by 2050
A recent United Nations report says that by 2050 up to 80 percent of the global energy could be supplied from alternative resources if public policies will come up with proper incentives.
