5 GigaWatt Solar Power Field To Be Built In South Africa
South Africa has recently unveiled plans for building world's biggest solar energy park, which, according to officials, will be capable of producing about 5GW of clean electricity.
The Blythe Solar Power Project Approved by Federal Regulators For Building 1 GW Plant
The Blythe Solar Power Project, that we talked about in a previous article, has been approved by the U.S. federal regulators. It will occupy 7,000 acres in Riverside County, California, and will generate more than 1 gigawatt of totally renewable energy.
Solar Powered Refrigerator Invented by 23 yo Emily Cummins
Emily Cummins, a 23-year old girl from the UK, has been named an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree for inventing a solar powered refrigerator - basically a device that uses water evaporation to extract heat (just like your skin gets colder when your sweat evaporates off).
Tata Using Steel As Substrate For Cheap Solar Cells
An economically-sound solution to solar power comes from Tata Steel's Corus and Swansea University researchers, who developed a technology that uses steel sheets for more efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.
Asteroid Impact To Have Created Geothermal Energy Reservoir In Australia 300 Million Years Ago
An important geothermal resource area in Australia has been found to have a less known, asteroid-related history, as Dr. Tonguç Uysal from the University of Queensland did some research on the energy capabilities of the Cooper Basin.
MIT Researcher Michael Strano Reports News About Storing Energy In Carbon Nanotubes
We've been talking a while ago about Michael Strano and his thin carbon nanotubes that can transform fuel poured onto them into electricity. A chemical reaction is set up by heating the nanotubes, triggering the transformation at a speed of 10 meters per second.
Mercedes Benz Starts Leasing B-Class Fuel Cell Vehicles In Europe and US
Only to the visually-impaired it may look like fuel cells and electric cars don't enjoy success nowadays. Daimler AG has just started a pilot program of leasing Mercedes-Benz hydrogen fuel cell cars to 5 to 15 users in the US, to see how their car acts in real life conditions and how people receive them. To me this looks like a postpone of the real thing, just like GM did to EV1.
What Would Happen If The US Granted Solar As Much Subsidy As To Fossil...
1BOG had a wonderful idea from the beginning to make these long images showing one concept or another, some kind of a statistic about various facts, related to alternative/renewable energy. They show the facts in an un-editable, banner-like shape.
Solar Roadways Project Wins $50,000 Ecomagination Prize
After participating in the GE Ecomagination Challenge and winning $50,000, Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie Brusaw are much more optimistic in what concerns their Solar Roadways project, which aims to make the road produce electricity through embedded solar panels.
Japan Planning A Really Smart Grid Worth Envying and Following
An article I just read, written by Technology Review, shows how the Japanese want to amaze us, the rest of the world, over and over again. Not only they're stuffed with the latest gadgets not yet found anywhere else, but now they want to set an example for the US and Europe to follow.
