Solar energy is a primary focus for Japan Japan is on its way to overtaking the U.S. and Germany in terms of solar energy installations. The country has been investing...
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The BMW i3 is set to roll out this year, which I think has many of us EV lovers a little giddy. BMW’s i series looks hot, different, sharp. It looks like it was made to fit with an era of iPh... Delete the scoop?
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The Shams 1 Concentrated Solar Plant (CSP) in Abu Dhabi is the largest of its kind in the world and it has finally gone live. Green Prophet visited the 100MW plant in the western region of the Unit...
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Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL) is to install up to 600 BlueGen 1.5 kW fuel cells across German Delete the scoop?
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Downloads : Soutenu par la Commission Européenne et l’Ademe, l’Observatoire des énergies renouvelables réalise et publie tous les deux mois depuis 1998 le baromètre EurObserv’ER. Delete the scoop?
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http://youtu.be/wEUkYvGJetg As noted in previous posts in this series, the renewable energy graduate student who got me to go give a guest lecture to his class on renewable energy also recently passed along some useful videos on different types of... Delete the scoop?
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The report on the public consultation on the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) launched by the European Commission last summer, gauges opinions from 127 individual citizens, research organizations and companies from 22 European countries on the future of the hydrogen fuel cell industry in Europe. 95% of respondents expressed support for hydrogen as a storage medium for renewable energy. Delete the scoop?
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Wind power has surpassed nuclear power to become China's third largest energy resource. Delete the scoop?
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Stockholm is the very first city to be designated European Green Capital 2010 by the EU Commission for leading the way towards environmentally friendly urban...
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A study carried out by the French Agency for the Environment warns that emailing is just as bad for the environment as flying.
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"Sending an email with a photo attachment consumes far more energy than we think,"..."Reduce the number of emails you send - a 10 per cent reduction could save up to 1 tonne of CO2 a year". Delete the scoop?
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A simple, single nanowire crystal is capable of super-concentrating the intensity of the sunlight that it is exposed to up to a factor of 15, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered. Delete the scoop?
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Japan has succeeded in pioneering the exploitation of vast reserves of undersea methane. It could be good news for a resource-hungry country and bad for an overheating planet. Delete the scoop?
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Shams 1 CSP plant in Abu Dhabi, developed by MASDAR in association with Total and Abengoa Solar. Construction situation by Jan 2012. 100MW Concentrated Solar...
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Shams solar power station is a concentrating solar power station near Madinat Zayed, Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. The solar power station is located approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Abu Dhabi and 6 kilometres (4 mi) from Madinat Zayed on the road from Tarif to the Liwa Oasis.It became operational on 17 March 2013.
The first part, Shams 1, uses parabolic trough technology and will have a capacity of 100 megawatts (MW), which makes it among the largest parabolic trough power stations in the world.Shams 1 is expected to be commissioned in early 2013 and to be followed by Shams 2 and Shams 3 stations. Delete the scoop?
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Vaskiluodon Voima, a Finland-based company, is building a biomass gasification plant in Vaasa, Finland. The 140MW plant will produce biogas from wood, comprising mainly forest residue, to generate electricity and provide district heating to the...
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World’s largest biogas plant inaugurated in FinlandThe plant’s operator, Vaskiluodon Voima, said it would also help create hundreds of new jobs in the region.
Built near an existing coal-fired power plant in Vaasa, central Finland, the 140 MW biomass gasification factory is expected to cut coal use by up to 40 per cent. Fuelled mainly with wood residue from Finland’s large forestry sector, the plant is expected to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 2,30,000 tonnes a year while providing both heating and electricity for Vaasa’s approximately 61,000 residents. The plant’s operator, Vaskiluodon Voima, said it would also help create hundreds of new jobs in the region. Delete the scoop?
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Scientists from UC Santa Barbara’s have reinvented solar power with completely new technology. Delete the scoop?
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The government of Denmark has signed the Finance Act for 2013, allocating millions of euro for the transition to a greener society. Delete the scoop?
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La primera edición de Solar Decathlon Europe tuvo lugar en Madrid en 2010. Aunque plantea sus propias particularidades, la competición se basa en el Solar Decathlon americano. Delete the scoop?
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ITM Power is pleased to announce that the UKH2Mobility Partnership has made the following announcement today, on completion of Phase 1 of its program of evaluating the roll-out of hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cell electric vehicles in the UK. Delete the scoop?
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Quite frankly, if the company's numbers are correct, this could be the biggest solar news of the decade.
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“Using specialized lensing and a rotating, conical shape, the Spin Cell can concentrate the sunlight 30X onto one sun mono PV with no heat degradation. This increases the Power Density while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership and Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), which is estimated to be $.08/kWh for the Spin Cell.”
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In the quest to produce an environmentally benign renewable fuel, scientists have explored many techniques to split water molecules to produce hydrogen. Still, the current photovoltaic designs are not yet technically or economically viable. Materials research in this area has been promising, but research on the engineering design of these photoelectrochemical systems has been sparse. Delete the scoop?
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Innovations in the way we harvest energy means that human warmth can now be saved and harnessed to heat buildings
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