Tag: Alternative Energy - Page 8
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Flexible Solar Cells Reach Record Efficiency of 18.7%
The Previous Record was 17.6%Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have made flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) with a light-conversion efficiency of 18.7
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GE Mag Says Natural Gas-Powered Turbines Could Be the Answer
The world needs more green energy. It has to be reliable, too. How can we bridge the gap? The folks at General Electric's Txchnologist say innovations in natural-gas powered turbines could be the answer to meeting renewable
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2 Gigantic French Solar Farms Part of 100MW Super Array
They might not quite match the Google-supported 392MW solar thermal project in Nevada, but 2 projects launched in France look set to eclipse many other European utility-scale solar projects, like this 1MW solar farm in England.
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Alexis Madrigal on Powering the Dream (Podcast)
Wind turbines, solar cells, wave power. If you think these are newfangled technologies, think again. They were fangled long ago, and their story is the meat of Alexis Madrigal's new book, Powering the Dream. Madrigal (a senior editor at The Atlantic and
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Google Invests $55 Million in California's Massive 1,550MW Alta Wind Farm
Feeling Lucky? Your Searches Help Pay for ThisGoogle's not stopping its massive clean energy investments. After $168M in solar thermal and $100M in wind power, they're investing in... more wind power! They're providing $55 million
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Japan's 'Sunrise Plan' Could Require Solar Panels on All New Buildings by 2030
Photo: Dominic's Pics, Flickr, CCSun's Rising... And Solar Panels are There to Catch ItNuclear power isn't exactly popular right now in Japan, so the government is looking at other sources of power to secure the country's future energy needs. A new
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The 2011 Spanish Revolution; How Protesters Organise Themselves to Be Green (Photos)
The Indignados (or "Outraged") have been camping in over 60 Spanish cities for almost 10 days now. What started on the 15th of May (hence the tag #15-M) via social networks has become some of the biggest and most peaceful
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Electromobility Awards Announced at Challenge Bibendum 2011 in Berlin (Photos)
This week Berlin plays host to the Electromobility Conference and the Michellin Challenge Bibendum -- a race testing the ability of electric-powered vehicles to withstand the demands of everyday driving. Which
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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project
The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of
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Solar Plane Makes First International Flight While Streaming Live Video
Screen capture of SolarImpulse.com Soaring Solar Thanks to favorable weather, the SolarImpulse solar-powered plane is attempting the first international flight powered by only the sun. "Taking off from Payerne airfield (Switzerland), the solar airplane
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Wood Design from Spain: Fab Lab Houses, Wooden Islands and Spanish Guitars - Part 2 (Photos)
Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some
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5 Energy-efficient Induction Cooktops For Small Kitchens
The design brief: TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's 420-square-foot apartment in New York may be micro-sized, but his life calls for a great deal of outsized entertaining. So in spite of wanting
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Nuclear power: If Japan and Germany don't need it, why does anyone?
"If the third and fourth biggest
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Renewable Energy Can Power the World in 40 Years: IPCC
So it looks like renewable energy can power the world, after all. And no, it's not some hippie dippy Stanford researchers or a cleantech pioneer making the case this time -- it's the Intergovernmental
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Mobile Phones To Use Noise From Your Conversations To Charge Low Batteries
Using sound waves to charge small devices like cell phones is not a brand new idea. We reported on researchers from Texas A&M; and University of Houston working on just such a concept back in 2008. However, there is
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Arguments Against Nuclear, Oil, Coal... And Wind (Pic)
I think the image says it all. We can come up with some fairly legitimate reasons why we want to move away from nuclear, oil and coal as fuel sources. But wind? That's when the arguments against this renewable energy start to run
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Evolutionary Algorithms Can Make Large Wind Farms Produce More Power
Photo: kcdsTM, Flickr, CC Getting More Clean Power From Wind Farms A lot of attention is being given, and rightly so, to the growing size of wind turbines. Higher turbines with bigger blades can capture a lot more energy from the wind, and thus produce
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Toyota Prius Hacked Into Energy-Generating Roller Coaster (Video)
Prius cars utilize regenerative breaking to harvest energy and recharge the battery... and that's true when they're used as roller coasters. A team of makers decided that they wanted to see what else a Prius could become, and so
