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GE Invests in Acciona’s Dakotan Wind Farm

Published Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:14:52 +0000

GE Energy Financial Services, an investor in energy and water industries and a business unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), is investing $141 million into a wind farm. This wind farm is owned by a Spanish renewable energy developer and wind turbine manufacturer named Acciona. This Tatanka Wind Farm, on the North Dakota-South Dakota [...]

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U.S. Leads World in Wind Energy

Published Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:08:16 +0000

The United States has taken over from previous champion Germany in wind power production. For this USA has to be thankful to nature and human resource that produce technology. Nature has gifted USA with stronger wind than Germany. Randall Swisher, the executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, said that the US wind [...]

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A Step Closer to the Optimum Solar Cell

Published Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:30:50 +0000

We are conversant with the fact that solar cells absorb the visible light of the sun, though half of the sun’s output is made up of infrared light that too strikes the earth and it remains completely un-utilized. That is why only about 30% of the total sunlight can be converted to electricity thus [...]

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Solar Energy Plant Coming to Philadelphia

Published Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:46:03 +0000

A company called Green Energy Capital Partners based in Philadelphia is planning to build what they term as the second largest solar energy plant in the nation, in the Carbon County. The $60 million, 100-megawatt solar energy plant will be built on 100 acres of land near the Green Acres Industrial Park in Nesquehoning. [...]

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Mariah Power - Low Cost Wind Energy

Published Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:21:42 +0000

Wind energy is ’sustainable energy’, just like solar energy and water power. We already know the benefits of wind energy and why we should opt for it. But currently manufacturers are concentrating on the drawbacks of the wind energy and trying to eliminate or minimize those shortcomings. For example turbines are noisy and this [...]

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Solar Lens Towers To Power California

Published Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:51:14 +0000

A Utah based solar company (IAUS) has begun construction on the first phase of a project they claim could produce electricity for Californians for a cheaper price than either coal or gas. The first solar lenses are being installed near the Great Basin Desert in Eastern California. The unique thin-film lens focuses the sun’s [...]

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Bio-Fuel Market Set to Grow by 1,000%

Published Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:00:32 +0000

Middle Eastern oil sheiks move over. There’s a new kid on the energy block! Bio-fuel is the new green, completely clean fuel source. It’s also known as “agro-fuel” and can be broadly defined as any solid, liquid or gas fuel consisting of or derived from biomass. Biomass is nothing more than materials [...]

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MIT Develops Way to Bank Solar Energy at Home

Published Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:15:03 +0000

The fossil fuel scenario is pressing us to look for alternative sources of energy and that too, soon. We all are tightening our purse strings when fuel prices are rising irrespective of whether we own a vehicle or not. We need some dependable alternative source of energy to power our industries, offices and homes. [...]

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Comparison of Innovative Tranportation Technologies

Published Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:03:22 +0000

Jerry Schneider has put together a comprehensive list of more than 100 ready and emerging alternative transportation technologies. The alphabetical list includes a link to each project’s homepage, as well as a comparison table with the location and status of each. The emerging technologies listed have been self-evaluated by the inventors/developers of that technology, [...]

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Texas Approves New Wind Power Project

Published Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:38:51 +0000

Much solar and wind power are generated far away from the real consumers. It’s a great problem to transport the generated power to its genuine users because vast amount of wind and solar resources are located in remote areas. Legislatures are paying attention to the time-consuming and somewhat costly process of building and upgrading [...]

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Colorful Glass Delivers Massive Solar Energy Boost

Published Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:27:28 +0000

Now the extinction of conventional energy sources are not oh so distant future happenings, scientists are working overtime to generate alternative clean energy sources. Researchers all over the world are trying to improve upon the shortcomings of non conventional energy sources. We know that sunlight energy is captured by solar panels and then this [...]

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Canberrans Warm to New Solar Energy Law

Published Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:50:16 +0000

The new Electricity Feed-in (Renewable Energy Premium) Bill 2008, empowers the Canberrans to generate their own electricity, and the beauty of this bill is they can sell back the excess electricity to the power grid and get paid for it! They will be paid a tariff 3.88 times the retail cost of electricity for [...]

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Cheaper, More Efficient Solar Panels

Published Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:32:22 +0000

HP and Xtreme Energetics (XE), a solar energy system developer based in Livermore, Calif., have announced that they have entered into an agreement for the development of a solar energy system. This solar system will have an edge over existing solar technologies. Their solar energy system will generate electricity at twice the efficiency and [...]

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Alternative Energy Leads Green Gold Rush!

Published Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:23:11 +0000

We all are familiar with the current scenario of the conventional sources of energy. Oil prices are rising and sources of conventional energy are depleting fast. They are not going to last forever. Conventional energy sources come with heinous side effects. We are paying dearly for playing with the eco-balance and situation will not [...]

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Aeroturbine - Next Generation Wind Energy

Published Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:12:59 +0000

Right now wind energy is only being harnessed in the windy regions of the earth. Installation of wind energy on individual basis is unpopular because of production and cost inefficiency. Noise pollution and birds getting killed are also not quite attractive side-effects of the windmills. We can’t even imagine of installing windmills on high [...]

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ES-A Series Solar Panels

Published Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:30:24 +0000

Solar panels are a collection of solar or photovoltaic cells. These photovoltaic cells harvest sunlight and convert the solar energy into electrical energy. Solar cells are positioned into grid-like pattern on the face of solar panel. Photovoltaic cells collect sunlight during day and this light energy can be stored and used as electrical energy. [...]

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The cityZenn - Dream Electric Car

Published Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:49:41 +0000

Till now we have battery operated cars or hybrid cars. Hybrid cars reduce your gas consumption and air pollution. If you are using battery operated cars, you can’t drive on the spur of a moment. You have to PLAN and recharge the batteries. Otherwise your vehicle will carry you for a few miles and [...]

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Off-Road Electric Vehicles

Published Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:10:21 +0000

Frontiers for electric vehicles have changed: 10 years ago or even more recently it was almost impossible to consider an electric solution for all-terrain purposes, now on the market we see new products with highly improved performances. Pioneer in this field is the Italian company Alkè (www.alke.com) who invested research and time to develop [...]

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Green Collar Jobs

Published Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:22:58 +0000

Green collar jobs are related to products and services that are environment friendly. The organizations that incorporate environment friendly practices are termed as “green” and the jobs arising out of this green policy is “green collared job.” Like other sectors, green sector too has designing, manufacturing, installing, operating and maintenance units. The current scenario [...]

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Harnessing the Power of Highways

Published Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:33:53 +0000

KinergyPower is a new form of alternative energy which is also an example of distributed generation. KinergyPower was invented by two brothers Stefanos and Dimitri Horianopolous in Greece in 2002. Their system uses a series of hydraulic pistons to absorb the kinetic energy from the motion of traffic and transform it into hydraulic pressure. [...]

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