News tagged with renewables


Predicting a boom in solar power

Technology / Energy

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Although you may not see ubiquitous solar panels while driving through Wilton, the officials of Alteris Renewables, Inc. say the idea is becoming more accepted.





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China is now the world's top producer of the solar power cells

China solar panel makers see boost from Copenhagen

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy.


Seeking a Smarter Grid: Integrating Wind Energy by Linking Buildings to the Grid

Seeking a Smarter Grid: Integrating Wind Energy by Linking Buildings to the Grid

Technology / Energy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

In utility parlance, wind energy is known as a “variable load.” That’s because wind is naturally unpredictable and inconstant. What’s worse, it is more likely to blow at night, when demand for electricity ...


Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future

Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.


Shifting the world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy as early as 2030 -- here are the numbers

Shifting the world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy as early as 2030 -- here are the numbers

Technology / Energy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (31) | comments 21

Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so ...


A technician of German automaker Volkswagen's adjusts a mini gas-fired power plant

Home power plants project unveiled in Germany

Technology / Energy

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 23

An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people's basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year.


Cleaning Up Black Carbon Provides Instant Benefits Against Global Warming

Cleaning Up Black Carbon Provides Instant Benefits Against Global Warming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world could buy time to forestall disastrous environmental and geopolitical climate change effects by using existing technologies to curb emissions created through diesel and solid biomass ...


Australia's government is seeking approval for plans to produce 20 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020

Australia targets 20 pct renewable energy by 2020

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Australia on Thursday passed a clean energy law requiring the country to produce 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020 in move that could draw billions of dollars of green investment.


Energy Secretary Ed Miliband

Britain launches renewables drive to cut emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 2

Britain announced plans Wednesday to slash emissions with a huge increase in the use of renewable energy to generate one third of the country's electricity needs by 2020.


Electric Raptor

Raptor: An Electric Car Nearly Anyone Would Want to Drive

Technology / Energy

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (25) | comments 7

I love my Prius, it's true. But sometimes, I look at the Dodge Charger (I'm watching Burn Notice this summer) and think, "What a cool car." And when we think of cool cars, it's hard to keep the image of a ...


Texas wind farms deploy radar so birds, not feathers, can fly

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Wind on the Texas coast is tempting for energy companies. Unlike other parts of Texas - the nation's No. 1 wind energy state - the coast has breezes that blow consistently on summer days, when energy demand peaks. But there's ...



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