News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Solar Powered Boat on The Surface of The Oceans; PlanetSolar

The largest solar boat will soon be on the surface of oceans of the world. The PlanetSolar, will be equipped with photovoltaic solar panels covering 500 square meters. This will be the sole supply of energy required by the innovative boat. The catamaran will be of a length of 31m and a width of 15m. [...]

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World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant Granted $1.37 Billion for Construction

A total sum of $1.37 billion of federal loan has been guaranteed by the United States Department of Energy for BrightSource Energy Inc. This will finance the world’s largest solar thermal plant at Ivanpah, California. The announcement of the construction was approved after a second plan was submitted. The first plan was to construct a [...]

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The Green Wave That We are Experiencing

Green technology is not only a recent trend. The latest wave started to surface in 2000 B.C. However, Its history is yet much older, the Egyptians started developing buildings using passive air conditioning. Thereafter, Varius Avitus, the Roman Emperor permuted the trend by importing snow from the mountains to cool down his place. This gave [...]

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Silicon Solar Cells Smaller and more Flexible

Solar technology is getting refined by researchers in the field. A new method has been discovered to construct silicon solar cells which requires only a fraction of the material used for typical solar cells. Some American researchers have successfully developed innovative and flexible silicon solar cells, having wiring system that uses only 1 percent of [...]

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The Green Island of Scotland; Testing its Renewable Energy Potentials

David Miller, a Science Correspondent and BBC Scotland Environment has had a visit to the Green Island of Scotland known as “Isle of Eigg” The environment at Eigg is wonderful and the inhabitants are willing to safeguard it as it is. Nowadays, there is only a particular noise that can be heard on the island. [...]

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President Obama is Going for Nuclear Energy, Is It Really Wise?

America is going for nuclear power energy as President Obama announces the necessity for its kind. There will be above $8 billion provided in terms of federal loan guarantees for three decades for the construction of the first Nuclear power plant. In the speech at IBEW Local Headquarters in Lanham, Maryland, he announced the importance [...]

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Hydrogen to Account for The Intermittency of Solar and Wind Energy

There is a belief that hydrogen will play a fundamental role in supporting energy provision as well as to act as fuel for automobiles. It is, nevertheless, certain that for hydrogen to take a basic role in both energy and transportation many new infrastructures need to be set in place. This will thus involve an [...]

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NREL’s One Megawatt Solar Array; A critical Analysis

NREL’s most recent expansion of a 1-megawatt solar array is going to support new research. The solar array is going to provide carbon free electricity as well as platform to scrutinize the potential impacts of renewable energy on the environment. It might be considered as a parody that solar arrays are likely going to heighten [...]

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World’s Largest Wave Power Station Being Built In Sweden

Seabased AB and Fortum are going to construct the world’s largest wave power plant. This is a renewable source of energy, which will provide customer, society as well as other stakeholders with reliable energy. The Sweden Energy Agency is supporting this mega project with a grant. It was only today, that the full financial support [...]

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Promoting Renewable Energy can Save the Environment

The strong step taken to urge sustainable energy will practically protect the environment as alternative sources of energy are going to be harnessed. There will be a shift away from over-exploited conventional energy sources. The use of sophisticated technology to produce, transmit and convert electricity will decrease wastage of energy. This is likely going to [...]

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