News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Green Living in Vauban; Germany’s Eco-village

Eco-friendly products have successful hit the marketplace in the west. Organic food and green products have been expanding with two digit figures for the past 15 years, excluding 2009. In addition, automakers are providing new auto-solutions. Fully electric and gas-electric hybrid vehicles are stepping onto the road. This is good news for our plant. The [...]

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Storage Technology: An Energy Management Device For Home Use

Clean Power Solution has introduced an energy management device. The technology helps to store energy to be used on the place instead of pushing excess production of clean energy to UK’s National Grid. It is called the EMMA device. It is a technology that regulates the electricity that can be produced through photovoltaic panels as [...]

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IPT – The World’s very First Wireless Electronic Car Charger Has Been Launched in UK

IPT (Induction Power Transfer), the world’s very first wireless electric car charging system has been recently launched in London. The IPT is commercially available. The brainchild of London start-up HaloIPT wants to electrify the England’s M25 motorway by making use of magnetic induction. Magnetic induction is a principle that has been discovered in the year [...]

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Biomass: Changing Waste Into Watts

Prior to striking an agreement with Capital Power Corporation in the early 1990s, the five main sawmills, located in the Central Cariboo region of the British Columbia Interior, did not have much choice than to burn their wood waste or heave it to a landfill. Nowadays, the sawmills’ wood residues are being used by Capital [...]

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Green Cars in Progress as Companies like Mazda Invest in Research And Development

Reuters reported that Mazda Motor Corp, is investing a large portion of funds in R&D for the creation of hybrid cars. According to the Nikkei daily, their fiscal expenditure on environmentally friendly vehicles is expected to increase from 20 percent in 2010 to above 40 percent by 2015. The company has put aside 100 billion [...]

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Green Buildings Conserve & Save Energy

Green buildings have existed for nearly thousands of years though no one would have named them so, until recently. The Romans used what we term passive solar methods to keep their buildings cool in the hot Italian sun. Regrettably, by the 20th century these rational and simple techniques were ignored. Heating spaces became so cheap [...]

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Duracell Releasing Energy Efficient Wireless Chargers

The new myGrid drop-and-go charger saves up to 15 percent on energy costs. It is an innovative wireless charging pad device developed by Duracell to help private and business users to charge mobile devices. The Duracell myGrid drop-and-go charging device is a wireless charger able to handle up to four mobile devices at a go. [...]

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The American Coal Addiction Can Cease: It Doesn’t Need a Herculean Effort To Happen

People consider coal to be an indispensable source of energy. The worse is that Americans are predicting coal to play a critical role in the future’s energy supply. The coal equation can easily be eliminated from our energy supply. However, there need to be a will to do so. Here is a brief overview how [...]

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Making the most of energy efficiency and alternative energy

Conventional energy sources like gas and oil will stay indispensable in order to meet the global demand in the anticipated future. However, taking into consideration the limited nature of these resources and their undesirable effect on the environment, there is presently a pressing and mounting need to reflect on the possibilities of how man can [...]

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A More Effective Way to Produce Solar-Grade Silicon

A Norwegian manufacturer, Elkem Solar, has through research and development been able to establish a more effective way to produce conventional silicon production. The company based in Kristiansand has achieved some of its set goals: 1. The Cost of silicon production has been decreased considerably in respect to typical production approaches. 2. The energy consumption [...]

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