News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Large Wind Power Projects Coming To Pakistan: 17 proposals for 3,000 MW Project

The biggest wind turbine manufacturers are seeking turnkey EPC contracts. Some of the world’s largest company involved are Vestas, Siemens, GE, Goldwind, Nordex and SUNEC. In addition, to the 500-MW wind power plants that are expected to be finished by 2013; Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Board (AEDB) has been having more than 17 companies providing offers [...]

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Toyota: Greening Technology Exhibit

Toyota Biotechnology and Afforestation Laboratory hosted, last week, in Aichi Prefecture, the Toyota Motor Corp’s exhibition to show the latest developed technologies in their biotechnology and afforestation research departments. The event showcased three main research directions: Yeasts as bio-fuels. The Japanese company has developed a new yeast designed to increase ethanol bio fuel yield from [...]

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Supply of Wind Energy Can it be Speculated?

Japan’s earthquake produced pandemic problems, especially when associated to the Fukushima nuclear power complex. On the other hand, Japan’s nearby wind farms were almost totally unaffected. It is an established fact that wind turbines does not always run on 100 percent, there are moments of intermittence. Yet, there are already clear that other sources of [...]

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Opinion’s On Wind Turbines

Wind power is one of the benchmarks of renewable energy. However, in some region of the world, the reputation of wind turbines isn’t the best. There are even instances when the negative effects of wind turbines – makes wind energy ostensibly alike dirty green energy with some regions having signs indicating “Stop the Turbines”. From [...]

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Metso Supplying one of the World’s Largest Biomass Boilers to US Power Producer

Metso is a global technology corporation formed in 1999 for the supply of process industry machinery, power, paper, mineral resources, automation solutions and equipment. Their primary role as a service industry is to the processing of pulp and paper industry, acting as a power producer, retain a strong expertise in mining, construction, energy and environmental [...]

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Ghana Is A Winning Country In Renewable Energy

Ghana has won one of the worlds’ most prestigious international prize for green energy of this year’s Ashden Awards. Furthermore winners from Pakistan and India participated in the event VIP ceremony, presented by the British Minister for Change of Climate Greg Barker. The Ghana News Agency in Accra last Friday mentioned that the Prince of [...]

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Study Confirms GM Is on Top of 2010 US Clean Energy Patents List

A study released last Friday said that General Motors in Detroit, Michigan received more patents on clean energy than any other company in the year 2010. The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index analysis revealed that nearly 14 percent of the 1881 United States patents awarded to organizations last year were represented by General Motors; One [...]

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Producing Hydrogen as a Renewable Resource

Siemens, at this moment, is part of a team investigating on the myriad of approaches on how to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful chemical raw materials. In this research, they are taking into account the possibilities of removing the gas permanently from the environment. Such a process of fossil fuel combustion can reduce the [...]

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County Unveils Its Latest Solar Energy System

The County of San Diego as well as San Diego Gas & Electric revealed a novel solar energy structure recently. According to them the latter will generate sufficient capacity to power 107 houses on a yearly basis. The County Operations Center Parking Structure is located on 5550 Overland Avenue. It comprises of twenty-four panels on [...]

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Biodiesel: How Is It produced?

To be able to successfully produce biodiesel, transesterification is required. What, then, is this process called “Transesterification”? This is the method used for converting used oil into biodiesel with the use of methanol (a type of alcohol) reacting to triglyceride oils found in greases and fats, producing formation of fatty acid alkyl esters (biodiesel) and [...]

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