News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

New Solar Power Receiver Increases Production Of Thermal Heat

A new product, called the UVAC 2010 Universal Vacuum Air Collector, has recently been released by Siemens, and was announced at the CSP Summit in Seville. This device uses high-tech coatings to absorb energy from the sun. This solar energy is then converted into heat and used for the production of electricity.  This UVAC 2010 [...]

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Many States Could Meet Their Renewable Power Objectives With Their Own Resources

There are thirty six states, which have renewable energy objectives, or renewable power mandates that could satisfy these by simply utilizing renewable energy located within that state. This is according to a report released by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. That same report states that twenty three states could become self reliant in electrical current [...]

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IT Giants Microsoft And Google Considering Financial Support For British Wind Power

Large Internet IT businesses have Immense power demands and more so than your average Fortune 500 companies. Why you ask? Because they usually have such huge server farms which in themselves take a lot of power to operate but also the environment they are kept in demand high attention to energy requirements. These big companies [...]

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Timing Is Perfect For Solar Energy Entrepreneurs As New Green Economy Emerges

North America sits at the precipice of a solar energy explosion as each sector of the solar power industry experiences a growth of enormous proportions. There is currently a triple digit increase in the photovoltaic cell manufacturing business and this means more jobs to build them and sell the wares here and abroad. Solar power [...]

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Arguments For And Against Renewable Energy

Humankind has no choice but to take renewable energy very seriously. It is gaining more respect daily and there are numerous reasons why this is the case. As prices very slowly begin to fall on alternative energy installations for residential use, governments are being pressured worldwide for them to be more responsible concerning the environments. [...]

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Simplifying Solar Power Technology For The Renewable Energy Novice

Renewable energy is something we cannot avoid thinking about as a nation or as a species for that matter. Our oil reserves are dwindling rapidly and our power needs continue to increase. Alternate forms of energy have come quite a distance in recent years and the one form of renewable energy that has made the [...]

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Carnegie Wave Energy Installs CETO Wave Power Unit In Australia

Renewable Energy Holdings, announced that its thirty one percent owned clean tech wave power manufacturer Carnegie Wave Energy is about ready to launch the initial commercial sized wave energy system in the waters off of Australia. They completed a deed of license between themselves and the Government of the State of Western Australia so they [...]

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Chalk Up One Agreement For Copenhagen Summit

An announcement out of the Copenhagen summit states that nine European countries will work toward developing an aptly named Super Grid that will make it easier to share their offshore wind power. Cross border sharing of wind generated electrical current will become much easier to navigate using a super grid for distribution. The nine nation [...]

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Balloons Concentrating Solar Energy Have Mass Utility Potential

Until now, energy collection has taken the form of oilrigs drilling in oceans, pumps drawing oil from fields, wind turbines dotting mountain ridges and shorelines. A new venture firm is discussing their novel idea of using balloons as a form of energy capture and power source of the future. Cool Earth Solar is that company [...]

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Solar Cooling And Solar Heating Can Save Money And The Planet

Solar cooling is derived from the identical energy that we use to assist us in staying warm when the winter arrives. There are several means by which solar cooling can be accomplished. You could use a passive method of solar cooling whereby a storage unit captures the suns heat when it is maximized during hours [...]

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