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The Energy Generating Office Complex In Paris, France 2008-09-03 06:45:30 The “Energy
Plus” office building, to be located outside of Paris
, is designed to produce all its own energy for heating, lighting and air conditioning. This zero-energy building, according to the designers, will be the greenest office building ever created. It will accomplish this by having more solar panels on its roof than any other building - producing enough energy to power the entire bui Read more:Complex
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The Tallest Wind Turbines In The U.S. Installed In Texas 2008-09-01 13:31:47 The tallest wind turbines in the U.S. have been installed in Texas
— the Vestas V90 turbines are 345 feet(105.156 meter) high, and are rated at 3 megawatts each. They are part of the 63 megawatt Snyder Wind Project, a wind farm that’s just been installed in western Texas.Texas is already home to Horse Hollow, the world’s largest wind farm with 421 wind turbines that generate a total capacity Read more:Turbines
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Melting Steel Using Solar Radiation!! 2008-08-31 13:58:52 A group of MIT students are now vaporizing wood and can potentially melt steel using just the sun. Their goal is cheap and efficient solar power.Their solar concentrator, a 12-foot by 12-foot mirror( 3.65 m by 3.65 m), is made of off-the-shelve metal frames fitted with bent mirrors that concentrates the sun's light on a single spot.These students started a new company, RawSolar
, to sell their desi Read more:Radiation
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Megawatts From Mirrored Sunlight In Spain 2008-08-31 10:11:25 A company called SolFocus (which was spun out of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 2006) has started installation of a 3-megawatt solar power plant in southern Spain
. SolFocus makes solar cells that use much less silicon than regular panels because they use lenses and mirrors to concentrate sunlight. The solar concentrators magnify sunlight 500 times, which according to the company, is the “swe Read more:Mirrored
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Madrid's 'Air Tree' Produces Oxygen and Power 2008-08-30 10:29:23 In Madrid
, Spain they are currently building a huge structure called an “Air Tree” or “Eco Boulevard de Vallecas”. The Tree was created by Urban Ecosystem to be a social center, and to improve the surrounding environment. The structure is also completely self-sufficient, generating all its own power with solar cells. Any surplus energy is sold to the electrical grid. It also produces oxyge Read more:Oxygen
Storing Solar Power In Molten Salt 2008-08-29 07:16:12 Solar power is a truly efficient source of energy, but it tends to fluctuate, and, as you might know, it turns off at night. One clever way to alleviate this intermittence is to store solar energy in the form of heat using molten salt. An aerospace company, Hamilton Sundstra, has created a venture called SolarReserve, and it plans to have its first molten salt solar power plant online by 2010.(Thi Read more:Molten
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LabVIEW:Graphical Programming Tool 2008-08-28 04:57:47 What is LabVIEW?LabVIEW, short for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench, is a programming environment in which you create programs using a graphical notation (connecting functional nodes via wires through which data flows); in this regard, it differs from traditional programming languages like C, C++, or Java, in which you program with text. However, LabVIEW is much more than a Read more:Graphical
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The Skinny on RFID 2008-08-27 10:55:52 by: John HansonRFID is the abbreviation for Radio Frequency Identification. RFID is a method used to store and retrieve data using RFID transponders or tags. RFID tags have antennas that allow them to accept and respond to queries from the RFID transceiver. There are passive and active RFID tags. The difference between the two is that passive tags do not need an internal power source, but active t
North America’s Largest Solar-Electric Plant Switched On 2008-08-27 09:51:30 North America
’s largest solar photovoltaic system is now running and generating power — about 30 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. The 14 megawatt power plant is at the Nellis Air Force Base in the sunny desert of southern Nevada. It’s expected to save about $1 million in power costs annually, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 24,000 tons each year.Type your summary hereTh Read more:Electric
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Solar Film Debuts: Cheapest Solar Panel In The World? 2008-08-25 02:32:49 Nanosolar has just announced that, after five years of development, it will be shipping its innovative “solar film” product. Basically, Nanosolar is able to print solar panels on machines that resemble printing presses. The company, whose backers include Google’s co-founders, say it is producing the world’s lowest-cost solar panel, costing as little as 99 cents per watt.What will Nanosolar Read more:Panel
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The Coming Age Of HDTV - What Does It Mean To Me? 2008-08-25 00:55:57 by: Lloyd HowardHDTV
- high-definition television: it is something that has been discussed for some time now, however not everyone has a strong sense of what it is and why he or she would want to have it. Because all television stations will be required to broadcast a digital signal after February 17, 2009, many viewers are beginning to ask a lot more questions about how the new digital age of tel
Apple iPhone 3G 2008-08-25 00:29:39 After one year of the first AppleiPhone
, Apple has released its new Apple iPhone
3G. iPhone 3G came with a slightly different design but with large variety of new features. These features include access to 3G wireless networks, Microsoft Exchange server e-mail and support for large number of third party applications.Apple iPhone features:Memory: iPhone comes in two models, 8GB and 16GBMeasurments
Sir_Fz's Personal Blog 2008-08-24 14:04:06 Having trouble with viruses, spyware and adware? Your operating system is acting funny? The best protection software recommendations are available at Sir_Fz's personal blog. In addition get reviews of the best games and access to Sir_Fz's famous Eggdrop Tcl scripts. Click here. Read more:Personal
How to Move Green – The Greenest Cities in the US 2008-08-23 16:23:54 by: Josh AllenWhile you have been considering all sorts of characteristics of a city to move to, have you considered how the city sits on the green list? It is time to consider things like better air quality, renewable energy, certified green buildings, public parks, and superior recycling programs. If this sounds like a better life to you, take a look at a few of the characteristics found in the Read more:Cities
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Renewable Energy powers Italian village and Boasts Economy 2008-08-23 08:03:47 Varese, a town in Northern Italy, runs on 100% renewable power. The town uses a mix of wind, solar and small-scale hydropower. The town has reaped benefits from the energy network through added jobs, and an additional 350,000 euros [US $514,000] in revenues that are handed over to the council each year. Varese has also seen a six-fold increase in tourists in the last ten years, many coming just to Read more:Energy
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UK Plans 25 Gigawatts Of Offshore Wind 2008-08-22 11:05:03 The UK plans to build offshore wind farms that generate a total of 25 gigawatts. This is in addition to an existing 8 gigawatts of planned construction. This vast increase in wind power, in addition to the wave and tidal projects being tested in the Orkney islands, could power all of the UK’s homes by 2020.The scheme could see turbines so large that they would reach 850ft(260M) into the sky. Eac Read more:Offshore
Electrical Engineering Majors 2008-08-22 05:02:40 Electrical Engineering is at the center of the modern technological boom. While you are watching TV, using you PC, making a telephone call or surfing the internet you are using electronic devices. Electrical engineers implement power systems like coal, nuclear, fossil fuel power plants. These power plants gives you the electricity to light up your house, use your personnel computer(PC) or notebo Read more:Electrical Engineering
Biomethane: A Fuel From Pure Grass 2008-08-21 11:52:08 This is highly optimal. In Austria, cars can now fill up on a renewable, locally-produced fuel. The fuel is called “biomethane”, and it’s created by fermenting meadow grass (Poa pratensis). The grass is grown without the input of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. And it’s a true ‘cellulosic biofuel’ — it doesn’t rely on grains and oilseeds.It’s known in the U.S. as Kentucky bl
HP To Install 1 Megawatt Solar Rooftop 2008-08-21 11:50:24 Hewlett-Packard has announced it will install a 1-megawatt solar array in its San Diego facility. The installation will be made up of 5,000 panels on seven buildings. It’s a large solar array, but smaller than Google’s 1.6-megawatt solar array, which is thought to be the largest corporate installation to date in the United States.SunPower will install its solar panels and sell the electricity Read more:Rooftop
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Electric Eel Used To Power Christmas Tree 2008-08-21 11:50:09 In Japan, there’s an aquarium with an electric eel in it. And the eel’s electrical power is being used to energize the lights on a Christmas
tree. It’s clean energy right? Each time the electric eel at the Aqua Toto Gifu aquarium touches a copper wire in its tank, it sends power that lights up globes decking a Christmas tree.Officials expect the “eel Christmas tree” to be a popular attr Read more:Electric
A Solar Carport to Charge Your Car Or Home 2008-08-21 11:49:44 A carport that can generate power from the sun is debuting at the Electric Vehicle Symposium 23 (EVS-23) this week in Anaheim, California. Created by a company called Envision, the Lifeport can generate power for the home, or it can used to recharge electric vehicles directly. A 22 square foot carport incorporates 24 solar panels, and is rated at 4.8 kilowatts. It delivers and average of 16.4 kilo Read more:Solar
Vancouver: All New Developments Must Be Green 2008-08-21 10:39:44 In June, the Vancouver
City Council unanimously approved the adoption the the highest green standards for private sector development in North America. Effective immediately, all new re-zonings for development in Vancouver will be required to achieve or exceed the level of LEED Silver, and they will have to achieve LEED Gold on January 1st, 2010.The City of Vancouver already had a green building re Read more:Green
The Wind Shade Roof 2008-08-20 15:52:44 Personally, I find combination of clean energy and art to be compelling. Michael Jantzen’s designs certainly embody both ideas. Pictured above is his “Wind Shade
Roof” concept – it’s a swimming pool complex with wind turbines integrated into the roof. The turbines provide power for night lighting, pool heating and pumps.I’m sure the design is not entirely optimal, but also I’m would
New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts) 2008-08-20 15:38:41 The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That’s enou Read more:Largest
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Tips to Save Energy-Going Greener 2008-08-20 11:51:04 Electric energy consumption falls into three categories:1-Lighting2-Heating, Ventilation and Air conditioning or HVAC3-Plug in power as in: refrigerators, freezers and various electronic equipment, laptops and PCs, etc...First, simple measures can be taken to reduce lighting energy consumption like:1-Switch all lights that are not needed as when you leave the room.2-Make maximum use of the dayligh Read more:Energy
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iPhone Solar Charger 2008-09-20 15:42:00 iPhone SolarCharger
Does your iPhone suddenly displays the low battery warning? Worry no more, with this gadget you can recharge it anywhere by harnessing the sun! If your an iPhone addict this gadget will help you take the iPhone any place without worrying about electricity (camping, hiking, etc). To check the features click on read more.Features: (Source: MOBILE.BRANDO.COM.HK)Lithiumion polymer Read more:iPhone
Newest biofuel: diapers 2008-09-19 10:32:00 A cement plant in Utah found a new way to produce energy by burning diapers
. Besides generating energy the company is getting paid to do that.A cement plant uses heat to convert limestone into cement. This plant in Utah uses Little Mermaid Huggies as the fuel. With fuel costing one third of the operating cost, using Huggies helps the Devils' Slide Cement plant save nearly a million dollars a year
Solar Battery Charger for $14.99-Soldius 1 2008-09-19 10:32:00 Soldius 1 is a pocket sized solar charger, it comes with a collection of universal power adapters for charging many popular devices like the iPod, Blackberry smartphones and most Nokia, Motorola, SonyEricsson, Samsung and Siemens phones.It also comes with a femaale USB power tip.The device costs just $14.99, but supplies are short. The Soldius solar charger comes in black or white.Placed in direct Read more:Charger
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Biofuel motorbike takes victory 2008-09-19 10:32:00 Who says Green can't win.Team Inzane's Ducati 800SS motorbike,driven by Russell Joyner, has won a race at the Norfolk Snetterton track using biofuel. The bike used E85 which is a blend of 15 per cent petrol and ethanol distilled from biomass.Making this victory a clean one!Via: LowCarbonEconomy.com
3-MW Solar Park Comes Online in Spain 2008-09-19 10:32:00 One of the world's largest solar energy projects that utilizes copper-indium-diselinide (CIS) modules just came online in Albacete, Spain
. This project made by Swiss solar inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering AG and solar systems supplier Wurth Solergy. The system, which consists of 41,600 solar modules and 100-kilowatt centralized inverters generates a total of 3.26 megawatts of electricity. Read more:Solar
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