News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Solar Powered Water Purification Systems – Mobile MaxPure

An innovative stand-alone solar-powered water purification system has been introduced to the market by Worldwater & Solar Technologies Incorporated. It is a machine built with a pump, filter, to desalinate water and to purify. The system does also provide energy for purposes such as communication. The standalone machine has already several successful stories across the [...]

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Minor Changes To the Tiniest Parts In Solar Cells Yields Surprising Rise In Efficiency

A team of engineers from University of Buffalo has been able to significant increase the conversion rate of solar-energy technology by tweaking the tiniest parts of the cells. At University of Buffalo, researchers have already demonstrated that embedding quantum dots into modern photovoltaic cells increase the energy output significantly. It allows the cells to generate [...]

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India’s Ambition To Use Renewable Energy

India is a country known for its dense population and its marvelous progress in informative technology. However, if we look back 7 years, and evaluate the slogan ‘Power for All by 2012’, the progress is ridiculous. In November 2011, the International Energy Agency reported that there are still 288 million people in India, who do [...]

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Renewable Energy Outlook For Asia Pacific 2012

For Asia Pacific, the top six predictions for 2012 are: 1. Conventional Power Generation & T&D Infrastructure Development will be the strongest and largest source of revenue for power equipment industry. 2. There will be a 20 % growth in the renewable energy markets in 2012, in terms of total investments. 3. There will be [...]

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Solar Industry Experienced Steady Growth in America – 2011

Recent the Solar Energy Industries Associated, Washington released a review on the solar energy market of U.S in 2011. The report says that the solar market has experienced as strong growth in 2011; with falling cost and rising employment creation. Some facts of the Solar Market in 2011 have been recorded in this article: 1. [...]

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Google Investing 94 Million In Solar Farms

Google is investing 94 million in 4 solar energy farms located close to Sacramento in California. This is a joint investment with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. The total investment of the company has now reached $ 1 billion. Recently, on Google’s Green Blog, they communicated their intent to invest 94 million in 4 solar [...]

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“Dark State” Increasing Solar Efficiency by 44 %

Xiaoyang Zhu a chemist at University of Texas at Austin says that the conversion efficiency of traditional solar cells can be radically improved based on new ways of converting solar energy. According to Zhu’s team, it was found that the efficiency of harnessing electrons from a single photon of sunlight could be doubled by the [...]

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China is Going Green & There Are Strong Reasons For Doing So

China is steadily encouraging environmental improvement as a strategy to reduce the healthcare cost associated with thousands of people falling sick due to pollution levels. Apparently, the world’s largest polluter is investing most in green technology. This shows the country’s intention to rapidly reduce greenhouse gases. And to change her reputation as a polluter to [...]

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Solar Power to Reach Grid Parity In 5 Years

India’s government says that solar power will cost the same as typical electricity within five years from now. In 2017, the tariff of solar power will be on the same rate as thermal energy. Recent trend has shown a significant decrease in price per project.. The renewable-energy minister says that companies are bidding at rate [...]

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Is Solar Powered Data Centre in Apple’s Quest to Go Green?

Large giant tech companies are going towards solar energy. Apple is changing its North Caroline Centre to solar power from coal. In a recent study released by Greenpeace found that Apple ranked last in the field of being Green. The pool included large tech companies. But now they are slowly moving towards solar power by [...]

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