Renault Installs 60 MW of Solar Power For France Facilities
In order to decrease their carbon footprint and to raise the public awareness that they're actually doing something for the environment besides producing electric cars, Renault has decided to install a 60 MW solar array on its centers in several locations from France.
Cheap Hydrogen Obtained By Using Ethanol and Sunlight
Not only one time had ethanol been tested as a reliable source of hydrogen. Now, a multi-national team of scientists from Spain, Scotland and New Zealand have devised a method to use ethanol and sunlight to extract hydrogen for use in fuel cells to generate electricity.
NASA Develops Methanol Fuel Cell For Use In Space Applications
The result of a partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a new fuel cell technology could revolutionize the future of power sources, both commercial and military.
Solar Powered Ovens Made From Pizza Boxes Ehxibited on NYC Streets
While the green technology might still be a new thing for many, something our mind needs to get adjusted with, some other people already understood that this is their future. Or at least that's what students from 2 high schools in New York proved last week at the Union Square Greenmarket, when they showed up with a couple of green solar powered ovens.
24M's Liquid Battery Can Be Filled With Sludgy Electrodes, Cuts Price in Half
24M, a spin-off from battery maker A123 has published a paper which describes a new type of battery that would outperform any existing lithium ion unit designed for electric vehicles. Today's lithium batteries are bulky and heavy just because there's a lot of extra material in them that doesn't have anything with the storage of energy, but merely with supporting the active "ingredients."
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.
A Renewable Energy Superhighway To Be Built in Germany
Since Germany is way ahead in the clean energy race, a "little" impediment like the lack of a network to connect wind farms is not going to stop it. So the country is going to resolve the issue of transmission and connectivity by building a renewable energy superhighway.
Beznau Protest Success: All Swiss Nuclear Power Plants To Go Offline Until 2034
In a recent article I published, I've been saying that it's hard to almost impossible for a country like France, which depends heavily on nuclear power, to give up using it. Well, it looks like the democratic process worked after all in Switzerland, where crowds peacefully demonstrating near one of the oldest nuclear power plant in Beznau succeeded convincing the authorities to give up nuclear for good until 2034.
HERIC Topology: How a Brilliant Idea Brought 99% Efficiency For Solar Panel Inverters
Brilliant ideas usually don't need years of hard labor, or at least so it happens most of the time. For example, by implementing a switching trick to a DC to AC current converter used in solar panels, Heribert Schmidt, an electrical engineer (with a doctorate), from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems has managed to halve inverter losses, bringing the efficiency to 98 percent.
