Filed in archive Wave
by Reden Rodriguez on August 28, 2006
What is the Wave Hub? When it's funding is completed, it may become the newest, most innovative example of the UK's renewable energy program. The Wave Hub is a deep-sea electricity socket that...
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The Science Daily reports of a new alternative energy source for powering medical devices, sensors and portable electronics. The new source would come from muscle contraction or other body movements....
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Can you burn plastics? This is a very old question that has not really been answered. Some people think that burning plastics in wood stoves, furnaces, or in open fires is better than burying...
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In just over a few years, investment companies, banks, and other financing institutions have caught on to the renewable energy fever. The proof of this pudding is the meteoric rise in share prices of...
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University of Birmingham: Scientists from the University's School of Biosciences have found a way of extracting hydrogen from confectionery wastes. The justification for your extensive craving for...
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I took some time to compare the two most common biofuels pound-for-pound, just to check if what we are promoting to supplant fossil fuels, is in fact logical. Here is a excerpt from the paper entitled...
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Ever since I started looking at renewable energy projects, the world has changed. Unsightly landfills and poor solid waste methodologies used to be a city's bane. With renewable energy...
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Scott wrote a very interesting post on Biodiesel and its impact on the vegetable oil industry. The article that Scott referred to says that the increased use of biofuels, particularly biodiesel will...
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University of Florida: The director of the University of Florida's Energy and Gas Dynamics Systems Laboratory, William Lear has revealed a gas turbine engine that features a heat exchanger to...
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The Earth has been wired long before the age of the internet. The man who discovered and initiated research on microbial fuel cells is Yuri Gorby, a scientist from the Pacific Northwest National...
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Scientists have developed a method of examining the processes of a fuel cell, by producing the first three dimensional images of the interior or a fuel cell. Similar to Magnetic Resonance Imaging...
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The word "waste" isn't really applicable nowadays. Waste can be used for power generation, as proved by Russian researchers from the N.E. Bauman Moscow State Engineering University....
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Solar energy is used by plants to efficiently produce energy and food, so why cant men to the same? Michael Haumann from the Freie Universität Berlin who is studying the detailed cycles of...
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Leave a soda bottle out to bask in the hot sun and what do you get? With a new technology that adheres both solar cells and heat pumps onto surfaces, you may soon get a cold drink instead of a......
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The US Army together with engineers from the University of Florida has built a successful prototype power-refrigeration unit that produces power, water, and refrigeration. Primarily designed for...
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The US produces Bioethanol from corn. Right now, people are looking at Cellulosic ethanol production, which will make use corn waste to produce the biofuel. Researchers from Penn State and led by Dr....
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As Fuel cells become mainstream renewable energy resources, it is important to set benchmarks to measure its performance and output. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
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Carnegie Mellon University: Materials Science and biomedical engineering Professor Prashant Kumta discovered a nanocrystalline material that is cheaper, stable, and produces higher quality energy...
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The NREL's Solar Energy Research Facility is in the cutting edge of developing new solar lighting technology called Hybrid Solar Lighting. Hybrid solar lighting collects sunlight and routs it...
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Filed in archive by Reden Rodriguez on August 16, 2006
Researchers are studying the viability of creating electricity from microbes that are continuously fed with waste water. If this technology reaches a proven and commercially realizable point, we could...
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If you are thinking of a heating and cooling system for your new home, try to look at geothermal heating. Alliantenergygeothermal.com provides information on the science behind geothermal home systems...
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The Green Gross Domestic Product (GGDP) is fast becoming an important index of economic growth. The difference with your regular GDP? The GGDP indexes economic growth in consequence with environmental...
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Filed in archive Wave
by Reden Rodriguez on August 12, 2006
ocean Power Technologies of London is set to build (what it claims to be) the first commercial wave plant in Europe. Located off the coast of Spain in cooperation with the French oil group, Total, the...
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According Sir Martin Rees, president of the British Royal Society, the most prestigious scientific institute, a program with the single-minded commitment such as that of the US Apollo program is...
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