Jul 2
Inexpensive Thin Printable Batteries Developed
For a long time, batteries were bulky and heavy. Now, a new cutting-edge battery is revolutionizing the field. It is thinner than a millimeter, lighter than a gram, and can be produced cost-effectively through a printing process.
Jul 2
Green Car News – IXYS (NASDAQ:IXYS) Announces Taking Delivery of the Tesla Electric Car
BIEL, Switzerland & MILPITAS, Calif. – July 2, 2009 – IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ:IXYS) announced that it has taken delivery of a Tesla electric vehicle (“EV”).
Jul 2
Hybrid Car Sales Set to Boom in Near Future
The year 2009 has so far been witnessing negative trend in the overall automobile sales, affected by the ongoing global economic crisis.
Jul 2
Thermodynamics Wins Again
Back in 2006, the Irish company Steorn announced that they had discovered a “a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy.” A magnetism-based perpetual motion machine is what it amounted to, which would clearly violate various physical laws, such as the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics. Steorn put an advertisement in the Economist after announcing their new technology, seeking qualified experts to form a “jury” to validate their claims.
The jury is in. The laws of science do not fall so easily:
Irish ‘energy for nothing’ gizmo fails jury vetting
An Irish company had promised it could deliver non-polluting, virtually cost-free power but an international jury said yesterday it did not work.
Scientists doubted the claims and, when the company resisted calls to release precise details of how Orbo worked, it asked an international panel of experts to adjudicate on the device.
Steorn organised a panel of 22 independent scientists and engineers from Europe and North America chaired by Ian MacDonald, emeritus professor of electrical engineering at the University of Alberta.
“The situation was we had engaged them in February 2007 and went through a process with them,” Mr McCarthy said. Two years have passed however and the jury clearly decided that enough was enough.
It posted an announcement on its website http://stjury.ning.com that it was disbanding.
“The unanimous verdict of the jury is that Steorn’s attempts to demonstrate the claim have not shown the production of energy,” it stated. “The jury is therefore ceasing work.”
Undeterred, Steorn rejected science and announced that they would proceed toward licensing their technology by the end of 2009. No joke.
Jul 2
First Hybrid Solar Power Station
Weizmann Institute created a milestone in the field of alternative energy in association with AORA. AORA is a leading Israeli solar energy technology company. It launched the world’s first hybrid solar thermal power station at Kibbutz Samar in southern Israel. During the inaugural launch of the powerhouse, guests from other countries such as Spain, [...]
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Jul 2
Video: Marketing Solar Energy to the Public Remains a Challenge
As the solar industry grows, marketing and public outreach are set to become a larger part of the day-to-day operations of installers, integrators, manufacturers and trade associations. Solar Energy Industries Association president Rhone Resch identified it as a major hurdle moving forward.
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Jul 2
Ox Mountain Landfill Gas Project Begins Operation
One of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest renewable energy projects, a landfill gas-to-energy station at Republic Services’ Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay, began operation this week. Owned and operated by a subsidiary of Ameresco Inc., the landfill gas to energy plant will supply enough renewable energy to customers in Alameda and Palo Alto.
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Jul 2
Perpetual Power Completes 1-MW Solar-Powered Water Pumping Systems
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA Inc. and Perpetual Power (P2) have completed the installation of four solar-powered deep water wells at Limoneira Company’s Ducor Ranch in California. The four 250-kilowatt (kW) solar arrays that make up the proejct include single-axis tracking systems which are expected increase power output of each array by 15%.
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Jul 2
Nacel Energy To Build 20-MW Texas Wind Project
Nacel Energy Corporation has entered into four long term wind development rights agreements covering 1025 acres in Donley County, Texas. The rights include access to the area where the company plans to develop Leila Lakes, its fifth wind energy project in the state. At project build-out, Nacel Energy anticipates 20 megawatts (MW), or more, of installed capacity at Leila Lakes.
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Jul 2
Solar Liberty To Install 1.1-MW System in Buffalo
New York Power Authority (NYPA) president and CEO Richard Kessel said that he will be seeking approval of a US $7.5 million contract for the installation of a 1.1-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) system at the University at Buffalo (UB). According to the plan, the bulk of the work to be undertaken by Western New York firm Solar Liberty.
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Jul 2
Federal Efforts a Travesty
“‘We’ve ensured a role for coal,” said Rick Boucher, Democratic Congressman from West Virginia, regarding the federal climate change “mitigation” bill that recently passed the House. I’m forced to use quotation marks around “mitigation” because this “deal with the devil,” as Ted Nordhaus, of the Breakthrough Institute, described it, confirmed my worst suspicions: even under a progressive and popular President the chance of an effective federal climate change mitigation bill passing through Congress is minimal to none.
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Jul 2
Iberdrola Sells Chilean Hydro Stakes
Chilean energy company CGE, through its CGE Generación subsidiary, is to acquire stakes in two hydroelectricity companies in Chile as part of an asset divestment programme by Spanish group Iberdrola.
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Jul 2
Thornton Bank Offshore Project Officially Commissioned
Thornton Bank, Belgium’s first offshore wind farm, has been officially inaugurated.
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Jul 2
4 Greenest Notebooks from Laptop Magazine
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Laptop Magazine has tested some of the industry’s greenest notebooks and decided on the most eco-friendly in each of 4 categories, from netbooks to desktop replacements. Check out their choices. …
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