New York Firemen Benefiting From Solar Power
Providing emergency medical services and fire protection on a 7 square miles area involves high costs,so installing a solar powered system will save the fire station nearly $200k.
Australia's Best Spots for Harvesting Wave Power Shown by New Study
The Australians have just evaluated their potential for producing wave-based energy, within an area stretching from Gerlandton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania, and found out that by only using 10% of this area's potential they could meed 50 percent of the entire country's need.
Solar and Wind Farms Sharing Equipment to Become More Cost-Efficient
A team of researchers at the University of Western Ontario has developed a new way to use solar and wind power installations to reduce costs and improve their cost efficiency. Two Ontario power companies have already signed on to use the new technology.
Ballard’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Generator to Power 500 Ohio Homes
According to the company, this giant generator (large as a tractor trailer truck) is planned to be shipped to Ohio where it will be plugged into the power grid. Also being powered by hydrogen, it has a source of energy that can be extracted from a clean natural resource such as water.
Hydrogen Makes Metals Brittle: Fraunhofer Researchers Improving Material Technologies
Being the core of the dispute between early electric car adopters, hydrogen may be the solution to the electric movement, eventually even beating batteries by cleanliness. The technology behind hydrogen powered cars poses a few issues, though.
EnerSolar Street Lights: Solar Powered, Self-Contained LED Lighting Systems
As they state in a press release, there's no need to install anything else besides a box, like batteries, solar panels or the lights themselves. Everything is self-contained and ready to be mounted on any lighting pole through by the use of an universal mount. One full charge lasts for three nights.
New Mysterious Battery Technology From MIT Professor Cuts Price by 85%
Having received $6 million from ARPA-E and $10 million from venture-capital funding, 24M (whose name stands for "24 molar") is working with Rutgers University and MIT. Yet-Ming Chiang, the materials professor from MIT, who also founded A123 Systems, is behind the wheel and doesn't yet reveal any in-depth technical details about the new battery.
Wax Helps Scientists Reach Theoretical Storage Limit for Lithium Manganese Phosphate Batteries
In the war for efficiency, not only energy harvesters (like solar cells, wind turbines and others) have to win, but they will also have to be accompanied by storage devices, coming from behind. Daiwon Choi, working at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has discovered how paraffin (wax) can improve the battery manufacturing technology by enhancing their electrodes.
Magic Sticker Makes Solar Cells Up to 12 Percent More Powerful
Genie Lens Technologies has developed the easiest solution yet: a sticker that applied to the solar cell, will direct the incoming light onto the light-sensitive surface, greatly reducing reflections and improving the efficiency.
Meridian and AGL to Build a 420 Megawatt Wind Farm in Victoria
AGL Energy Limited (AGL) in partnership with Meridian Energy plan to build one of the world's largest wind farms that will be able to...
