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Puerto Rico will stop burning coal next year

Matias Prieto — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:44:54 +0000

Puerto Rico has a plan in motion to shut down its coal-burning power plants by next year. After going through an energy crisis, Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Roselló signed the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act, which claims the island will be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2050. Not only this, but they […]

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Ørsted Acquires Lincoln Clean Energy to Form Onshore Wind

Ally Munda — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:20:38 +0000

Danish power giant firm Ørsted announced on Monday, October 1, the completion of its acquisition of 100% equity interest Lincoln Clean Energy LLC (LCE), a US onshore wind energy developer. The acquisition was valued at approximated $580 million. Ørsted has since restructured its business units and created a new unit called Onshore Wind. The acquisition was first […]

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How to Build a DIY Bicycle Powered Generator

Arsenij Percov — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:04:28 +0000

The Instructable user henrycaleb wrote a guide on how to create bicycle powered generator using a bike, an alternator, a car battery, a belt, and a wooden frame to connect all of the components together. Step 1: Gather Materials Tools: Drill Drill bits of many sizes Lug nuts Ratchet and socket set Large amount of […]

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UAE Emerges as Leader in Clean Energy Technology

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:53:00 +0000

Climate talks are happening in Paris at the moment, but many are uninterested in the proceedings. World leaders promise to commit to clean energy technology, but their programs often do not seem to cause any real change. However, Abu Dhabi and Dubai are examples of cities that have made real changes to their infrastructure, and […]

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Obama’s Clean Energy Initiatives – We Need More Win!

Benji Jerew — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:51:33 +0000

In promoting a clean energy mix for the United States, in between zero-emissions vehicles, advanced rechargeable batteries, solar power and wind power initiatives, and implementing stricter emissions regulations across the board, it hasn’t been all “win.” Understandably, many of the technologies may very well have been ahead of their time or just poorly planned or […]

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Germany Penalizes Clean Energy Producers for Using Their Own Energy

Mila Luleva — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:59:57 +0000

In their attempt to reduce the increasing electricity bills, German government is taking drastic and slightly controversial measures. Merkel and team plan to introduce a new charge, which will be introduced to penalize clean energy producers for consuming their self-generated energy instead of selling it to the grid for the price set by the government. […]

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$150 Million Offered by DOE In Clean Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:47:59 +0000

Under a federal program that is set to expire in 2014, twelve clean energy businesses in the United States will receive a total of $150 million in tax credits for domestic manufacturing equipment, the Obama administration announced Thursday. The awards will help businesses build up their manufacturing equipment and infrastructure for products that support wind […]

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Pressure Cooker Technology Helps Make Better Lithium Ion Batteries

Danny Harper — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:20:02 +0000

With all the issues that come with current electric car batteries – long charge times, short-range, bulky batteries – evolution is vital for this clean energy to become cost-effective. Fortunately, researchers at the University of California-Riverside have redesigned the component materials of the batteries themselves as a way to begin solving these major roadblocks. By […]

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DoD, US Navy Focus on Clean Energy in Hawaii

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:51:27 +0000

The Energy Excelerator, a funding agency for renewable energy start-ups based out of Hawaii, has just been given $30 million by the US Navy to continue its work on alternative fuel initiatives. The Energy Excelerator also receives funding from the Department of Energy (DOE), among others. The agency already has a host of success stories […]

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Renewables to Provide a Quarter of The Global Power Supply by 2018

Mila Luleva — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:03:52 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report earlier this week, stating that in the coming 5 years, solar and wind will represent a quarter of the global power supply. The predictions indicate that renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar, wind and bioenergy are becoming extremely competitive, and are likely to overtake major conventional […]

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Adoption of Clean Energy Too Slow to Limit Global Warming

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:33:11 +0000

On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that low-carbon energy development is progressing far too slowly to have any limiting effect on global warming. Governments are not taking quick enough action, and power generation is still dominated by the fossil fuel industry. Experts have warned that the goal of limiting the global temperature rise […]

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“Flammable Ice” Deposits Help Japan Meet Energy Needs

Mila Luleva — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:07:24 +0000

Earlier this week, Japan announced that they were able to extract the so-called “flammable ice” gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits. Since the country is one of the biggest importers of gas, exploring such resource could be the key to resolving Japan’s energy problems. Flammable ice is a valuable replacement of oil and gas for […]

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Low-Carbon Hybrid Systems Key to China’s Future Energy Development

Mila Luleva — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:35:56 +0000

In order to optimize any future energy development, China should integrate nuclear or renewable energy so that they bring down to a minimum the use of high-carbon energy resources. A recent study published in the first issue for the year of the journal Scientic Sinica Chemica, presents a low-carbon hybrid energy system, which provides a […]

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Apple’s Data Center and the Clean Energy Paradox

Leigh Hutchens — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:32:57 +0000

According to the North Carolina Utility Commission, Apple intends to double the amount of fuel cells it will use at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. In November, Apple filed to increase its fuel cell size but kept the endeavor completely confidential. Bloom Energy is installing 50 Bloom boxes for Apple to produce 10 […]

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Alternative Energy Sources May Reduce the Gulf States’ Reliability on Fossil Fuels

Leigh Hutchens — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:41:31 +0000

The Gulf desert states are some of the largest greenhouse gas polluters in the world. Fossil fuels are consumed at record speed thanks to desalination, large-scale construction projects, and widespread air conditioner use. Projects fueled by the gas and oil industry also contribute to large scale fossil fuel consumption. To add insult to injury, Saudi […]

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New Sun-Powered Water Splitting Process Discovered

Leigh Hutchens — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:29:16 +0000

Researchers have determined that water splitting can produce clean energy hydrogen and use small metal particles exposed to sunlight to perform the splitting. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory used gold particles less than one nanometer in size to increase hydrogen production, far exceeding the hydrogen production of other catalysts. Less than […]

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Confronting Climate Change: 9 Clean Replacement Technologies

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:34:44 +0000

July 2012 was the hottest month ever recorded, and 2012 is becoming the hottest year since record-keeping began in the nineteenth century. Global climate change is here now; it is not only a harmful problem for future generations. And it is bound to grow worse if we continue to ignore it, to deny it, or […]

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Americans Willing to Pay Extra for Clean Energy, Study Says

Guest Contributor — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:27:16 +0000

Barack Obama’s January 2011 State of the Union address called for a National Clean Energy Standard (NCES) that would target having 80% of all energy sources in the US to be generated from green sources by 2035. The U.S. citizens are ready to pay the extra cost – as long as they will get green […]

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On-Plant Carbon Capture Much More Efficient Than Air Scrubbing, Study Says

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:32:29 +0000

To get rid of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, one sure way to go would be capturing the gas directly from the air. However, this is more of a challenge than would be capturing the carbon at the source of its emission, the power plant furnaces, say Stanford and MIT researchers. A similar study has […]

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Chinese Coal Producer to Harvest Clean-Burning Combustible Ice

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:21:10 +0000

As China expects a period of peak energy demand from 2020 to 2025, its largest coal producer, China Shenhua Group, now announced that it wants to start commercializing combustible ice, a gas hydrate (methane+water) found in the Qinghai province. The country first made public the discovery of combustible ice in May 2007, under the bed […]

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Obama Plans an $8 Bln Green Energy Budget for 2012

Mike Sandru — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:47:19 +0000

The Department of Energy has $29.5 available billion for the fiscal year 2012. About $8 billion would be invested in solar, wind and advanced batteries. "Whomever leads in the global, clean energy economy will also take the lead in creating high-paying, highly skilled jobs for its people," the administration said about the budget.

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Scatec Solar Plans Huge Solar Power Project for Iron County

Mike Sandru — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:47:37 +0000

Oslo-based Scatec Solar plans a new solar power project in Iron County, Expected to be the largest in Utah, the Norwegian company says the investment will be around $500 million. The photovoltaic panels will be placed across 650 acres in northwestern Parovan.

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China's Ambitious Plan To Increase Renewable Energy To 500 GW By 2020

Mike Sandru — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:36:01 +0000

China has published an astonishing and ambitious plan for renewable energy increase for the next 10 years. The plan is to get not less than 500 GW of clean energy on the grid by 2020.

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Hybrid Electric Tugboat Proving Capable to Reduce Emissions

Mike Sandru — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:04:21 +0000

Emissions reduction has been proven to be present even in the shipping industry, the clean energy sector. This time it's about a hybrid electric tug boat, named Carolyn Dorothy, on which the University of California-Riverside has conducted a study whose end results show that the ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œlittle ladyÃƒÂ¢€ does indeed reduce emissions considerably.

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Oregon Utilities Setting Target of Reducing CO2 Emissions 10% Below 1990 Levels

Mike Sandru — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:12:18 +0000

To decrease the amount of greenhouse emissions 10% below 1990 levels, Portland General Electric (PGE) in Oregon intends to replace coal plants with 2,362 MW wind energy systems and 557 MW of simple-cycle combustion turbines burning natural gas.

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Ohio's New Solar Power Plant to Create More Than 600 Green Jobs

Mike Sandru — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:50:28 +0000

A former coal strip mine is going to be transformed into a huge solar power plant in Ohio, creating 600 permanent jobs. The 49.9-megawatt project will be developed by New Harvest Ventures and Agile Energy, and the produced energy for the next 20 years will be bought by American Electric Power.

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The White House To Be Equipped With Solar Panels, After All

Mike Sandru — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:05:57 +0000

Previous news were saying that the Obama administration doesn't have any plans of installing solar panels on the White House. Not even a month has passed, and a representative of the White House in Washington, DC says solar panels will be installed on the White House in order to impulse Americans to adopt green energy.

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Huge “Bloom Box” Hydrogen Fuel Cells Provide Clean Electricity To Adobe Systems

Mike Sandru — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:26:57 +0000

Adobe Systems is launching a new emission-free fuel cell technology for cars, under the name of “Bloom Box” fuel cells, in San Jose, California. What is new about the project is the size of the fuel cell, as large as a parking space, that can provide clean energy for dozens of cars or even for […]

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Wind Tunnel Concept Converts Wind Energy Generated by Subway Trains into Electricity

Mike Sandru — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:02:11 +0000

Metropolitan cities around the world build more and more underground subway systems in order to minimize the number of vehicles on the roads. The industrial designers also though to help city authorities by redesigning the current systems, making them more efficient.

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Shanghai Railway Station Benefits 6.8 MW Solar Power Plant Since Sunday

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:43:00 +0000

Germany and Spain may be the leaders in solar photovoltaics, but China comes from behind and amazes everyone with an enormous power station just above the Beijing-Shanghai railway station. The plant is able to produce 6.3 MWh (megawatt-hours) of electricity and can provide the needs of 12,000 households in Shanghai.

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Converting Plastic Waste into Clean Energy Without Releasing Harmful Emissions

Mike Sandru — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:36:17 +0000

Student scientists at Northeastern University have designed an apparatus capable to transform waste plastic into an alternative fuel without releasing harmful emissions.

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New Sources of Combustible Ice Could Power China for 90 Years

Mike Sandru — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:27:13 +0000

China has recently discovered major deposits of combustible ice on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. According to the researchers, this new source of low-emission fuel could power China for 90 years.

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China's Biggest Renewable Energy Project to be Launched Soon

Mike Sandru — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:46:15 +0000

China is planning to reduce its carbon footprint by 40-45% from the 2005 level and until 2020 to generate 15% of its electricity from low-carbon technologies. According to Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, a national program consisting of billions of dollars of investments in solar, wind and nuclear energy would be launched very soon.

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BPP Backpack Hydroelectric Generator Provides Up to 500W of Mobile Power

Mike Sandru — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:11:43 +0000

The Bourne Energy company, located in California, has developed a human-portable hydroelectric generator that produces up to 500W of renewable energy and weighs about 30 pounds. The Backpack Power Plant (BPP) can generate clean energy from any stream deeper than 4 feet.

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European Countries To Hit Renewable Energy Targets by 2020

Mike Sandru — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:23:11 +0000

The analysis, which assessed all forms of renewable energy, found that while 13 of the 27 European Union (EU) countries are going to meet their targets for renewable energy capacity, 8 are set to exceed it and the remaining 6 are expected to fall short.

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New Artificial Leaf Concept Increases Hydrogen Output Three Times

Mike Sandru — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:17:40 +0000

This idea is not new, but until now scientists have focused on trying to mimic or modify the molecules directly involved in splitting hydrogen. "We'd like to adopt an entirely different concept, to mimic photosynthesis by copying the elaborate architectures of green leaves," says Tongxiang Fan.

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Micro-Scaled Piezoelectric Device Harvests Electricity from Vibrations

Mike Sandru — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:24:33 +0000

The world we live is full of f vibrating surfaces like train stations, dance floors and highways that that could yield a rich trove of clean, eco-friendly energy. It is called piezoelectric energy, formed by the conversion of mechanical strain into electricity.

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Asia's Largest High-Concentration PV Plant Capable of Producing 100MW in Taiwan

Mike Sandru — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:12:26 +0000

Yesterday ( 23 December 2009) has been inaugurated in southern Taiwan the largest High-Concentration Photovoltaic (HCPV) in Asia. According to the officials this HCPV power plant is expected to save up to 700 tons of carbon emission annually.

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Researchers Develop Device to Convert Vibrations Into Electricity

Mike Sandru — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:37:25 +0000

Bristol University researchers have developed a new way to provide free energy to businesses and homes. They have created a new type of energy-harvesting device that makes use of non-linear springs and mass.

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Micro-Turbine Designed to Be Powered by Solar Thermal Energy

Mike Sandru — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:27 +0000

Israel-based HelioFocus Ltd and the Californian Capstone Turbine Corporation have announced an agreement to build a micro-turbine that will produce electricity from concentrated solar energy.

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Solarig to Build Eight Photovoltaic Parks in Italy

Mike Sandru — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:42:00 +0000

SOLARIG, a Spanish solar company, has started construction of 8 photovoltaic parks in Itlay this month. When the construction will be ready, the parks will provide 8 MW of clean energy in total. The same company plans to build photovoltaic projects that will produce 30 MW throughout different regions of Italy.

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Novotech's System Generates Renewable Energy from Asphalt

Mike Sandru — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:55:06 +0000

Scientists at Novotech and two Massachusetts universities are working to create a new system that could channel heat from asphalt and other paving materials into clean and usable energy.

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Steorn's Free Energy Machine to Be Tested One More Time This Year

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:34:55 +0000

Maybe you've heard about Steorn and their Orbo. Steorn is an Irish company that has been promising for a few years to accomplish something mankind has been dreaming for thousands of years: some call it perpetuum mobile, others call it overunity, but it is mostly known as "free energy" in lay terms.

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Florida Harvesting the Gulf Stream for Electricity and Hydrogen

Cristi — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:20:35 +0000

Florida's needs of electricity have made scientists think about never energy solutions. The needs of 4-7 million homes are so big that conventional energy would be too expensive and pollutant to still be used.

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Crude Glycerin from Biofuel Production has Great Unexpected Uses

Cristi — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:43:50 +0000

Glycerin in its pure form is used to manufacture soap, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and many other products, but the crude glycerin is an impure form that is unsuitable for these products. But what if we could use it putting back biodiesel in its correct position of green alternative power source?

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Scientists Developing Artificial Leaves to Produce Energy

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:49 +0000

Mimicking nature has been man's dream since he tried inventing the airplane, and even earlier. Mimicking a leaf for obtaining energy from the Sun has been even more challenging than learning to fly, though, until now, nobody succeeded imitating the evolution or creation or whatever our nature is made of.

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Yahoo Will Build the Most Green and Efficient Data Center

Cristi — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:34:39 +0000

Yahoo is going green! This news was presented at a press conference in Buffalo, New York, by Yahoo representatives a few days ago. In a world where everybody needs to turn green and needs to make use of as much as possible clean energy sources, Yahoo is making a big step.

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Solar Impulse: Viable Manned Flight Powered by The Sun

Cristi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:20:16 +0000

Solar Impulse, the first solar powered plane has been unveiled in Switzerland. With a wingspan of a Boeing 747 but lighter than a small car, the plan could fly around the world powered entirely by the sun.

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Thin-Film Panchromatic Solar Cells: Next Generation of Solar Efficiency

Cristi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:07:05 +0000

A Korean team led by Nam-Gyu Park has recently made a breakthrough discovery in solar cell development. This discovery will not only increase the efficiency of thin-film panchromatic solar cells but as well the use of clean and reusable energy on the entire globe.

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60,000 Green Cars Will Run on Chinese Roads Until 2012

Mike Sandru — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:24:57 +0000

Approximately 60,000 alternative fuel vehicles will run on the streets of China until 2012. The initiative is part of the effort to reduce emissions and save energy, announced the Minister of Science and Technology of China, Wan Gang, quoted by Xinhua press agency.

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Thorium: The Ultimate Cleanest Nuclear Energy Source

Cristi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:36:25 +0000

The president of the Unite States of America Barack Obama could be the person to influence the usage of the ultimate alternative energy ever discovered: THORIUM.

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OTEC: Lockheed Martin Studies Ocean Energy Production Tech

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:32:39 +0000

Lockheed Martin, specialized in building rockets and aircraft engines, is surprisingly taking over this niche of energy production. They spent the last year studying how to make a big and long fiberglass pipe to sink it into the ocean.

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BioWave – free electricity from mimicking sea plants

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:55:47 +0000

A long time ago, nature set its oceans and the living things in them. There were plants residing on the bottom of the ocean, plants who sway back and forth, as the water moves around them. So, BioPower Systems from Australia thought that making an under-ocean energy collecting system whose movement resembles with the one […]

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