The next 20 years could see the world’s energy needs being filled by wind power, was announced by Stanford University. A climate model has been developed by The University’s School of Engineering and the University of Delaware and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). It was claimed that it [...]
Continue reading...8. November 2012
Being well-known for its potential to offer clean and abundant electricity, wind power has become one of the fastest-growing energy sources around the world. By 2030, the Department of Energy of the USA, has estimated that wind power could constitute 20 percent of the nation’s electricity supply. The USA has passed Germany to become the [...]
Continue reading...4. November 2012
According to Thursdays’ report, Nebraska is missing a great opportunity for job creation to the state economy. This followed equally with cleaner form of energy, and is thereby trailing its neighbours in wind-energy development, like Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Nebraska is in a good position to use wind as a renewable-energy resource, [...]
Continue reading...28. October 2012
Concerning public policy, solar power is becoming more and more attractive (in the economics perspective), and currently it can be considered the most promising development to be initiated. For example, in about one year and half, the prices of PV (photovoltaic) modules dropped 40 percent and the good news: the price tends to keep dropping [...]
Continue reading...14. October 2012
After a few years of blissful running, the renewable-energy sector has suffered some blows. Now, casting shadows on the feasibility of its reputation as the energy source of the future is likely to change things. Speaking from Pembina Institute, Matt Horne, the climate-change director at the Institute agreed to the fact that the situation is [...]
Continue reading...7. October 2012
Saudi Arabia, although a leading purveyor of fossil fuels for the rest of the world, it has always been under pressure on oil demand supply ratio. This has ultimately led the nation to explore and opt for other sources of fuels. Saudi Arabian government has already made public its plan to build its first expansive [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2012
Sunlight reaching American households is enough to supply at least 50 percent of the total electricity needs of America. Recently, scientists concluded that progress in the field of affordable solar-energy technology is fundamentally necessary for people to opt to invest in roof shingles that can generate electricity power. Actually, shingles that are capable of generating [...]
Continue reading...20. September 2012
Recently Austin-based Solar Power Technologies informed that the company merged with a Vermont-based Company named Draker Laboratories Inc. They also added that the new combined company created a new fund of eight million dollars from the Austin Ventures and other different investors. The company officials said that the recent company would operate under the name [...]
Continue reading...2. September 2012
Japan is currently working hard t on nuclear power. For that matter, their goal is to increase the number of project involving alternative energy. This includes initiative such as the recent solar collector, located in the Miyazaki Prefecture (University of Miyazaki’s Kibana Campus). The faculty of engineering of the university successfully completed the solar thermal [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2012
A delegation constituted of three members of a Korean company named Concentrix Solar was called on MOS/Board of Investment, Chairman Saleem H. Mandviwalla. The Korean company demonstrated a deep interest in investing in solar projects located in Pakistan; one of these projects is the solar-energy installation of 300MW located in Quetta (Pakistan). This three-member delegation [...]
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17. November 2012
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