Siemens Water Technologies engineers have invented a technology that creates enough methane from purifying sludgy water to power the processes of a wastewater treatment plant. They even set up a pilot facility in Singapore.
According to some reports, a major amount of greenhouse gases is produced by airplanes. Airports in Michigan are planning to help solve this problem by growing biofuel-producing plants on the airport's land. These crops will generate biofuel for planes and will also cut their carbon footprint.
A company called On-Ramp Wireless invented a technology that uses the same frequencies Wi-Fi network cards use, but modulates the signal in such a manner that it doesn't get distorted by noise, such as the surrounding networks. On the contrary, the Ultra-Link Processing technology can send signals to up to 45 miles and even uses much less power to do that, enabling savings in what concerns both energy and equipment deployed on the field by utilities.
Yesterday, Nissan launched the 2012 model of the Leaf electric sedan and, as company officials claim, it will be available in more states than the current version. The electric car will have more features, including a fast charging mode, a cold-weather package and a higher price tag starting at $35,200.
The new smart-grid EV program will help utilities to directly control EV charging for participating consumers. This way, the utility can then reduce peak loads by offering discounts or other incentives to encourage drivers to charge their electric vehicles when overall electricity demand is low.
Only 6 percent of the electricity generated by the system is enough to power the St. Lucia campus, which is not small, after all. It is estimated that the entire rooftop solar system is able to generate around 1.22MW of clean energy.
Last week, the French government announced the launch of a $14.26 billion tender to build five different offshore wind farms. The goal is to reduce the country's longstanding reliance on atomic power and to boost its renewable-energy industry.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA), one of the Europe's largest airline, became the first company in the world that begins regular biofuel passenger flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg.
ECOtality Inc., a company that works on storage technologies and clean electric transportation in collaboration with Car2Go, a car sharing service that is a subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, are planning to develop the first large-scale electric car-sharing program in the U.S..
Volvo prepares to launch three different prototypes of range extending electric vehicles (RE-EV) in order to find the best ways of implementing hybrid technology which resembles that found in the Chevy Volt. The company plans to start testing the vehicles at the beginning of 2012.
