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Solar Powered Mobile Phone – a Kenyan solution for poor people

Adrian — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:42:32 +0000

Kenyans from rural areas with no access to electricity have got a super communication solution offer. Kenya’s Mobitelea Ventures and Telecommunications Company Safaricom bring a solar powered mobile phone which avoids to be plugged into the main sources of electricity. Kenyahas a high solar potential with many areas of more than six direct sunny hours […]

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Hull Green gym to power LED lighting system of the area

Adrian — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:38:39 +0000

The city of Hull, UK seems to play the role of host for the first outdoor green gym that converts people power into electricity. With help of The Great Outdoor Gym Company (TGO) local authority has installed some devices to make sport movement more compelling. Electricity generated this way on the cross trainer and exercise […]

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Solar spider silk battery, the thinnest in the world

Adrian — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:50:38 +0000

How thin battery do you think is possible to be realized? The researchers from the Tokyo University, Japan and from Johannes Kepler University, Austria have created the world’s thinnest and lightest solar battery having a thickness of only 1.8 micrometers. As described in an article published in Smartplanet, this solar battery is thin enough to […]

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A new kind of wind system for far remote water areas

Adrian — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:31:25 +0000

Wind system as a capsule was designed by the industrial designer Chen Xingnuo as vision of the future when people in remote areas will need to supply their energy needs. This wind system has the main objective to supply electricity when live on the water during the cloudy windy days. Wind Capsule System consist from […]

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Power source for implants by breathing energy

Adrian — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:32:34 +0000

Instead of using traditional batteries as a power source which require to be cut for replacing them with new ones, now there are various recharging technologies such wireless transmission of power from outside the body, biological fuel cells that generate electricity from a person’s blood sugar or piezoelectric to generate electricity from body movements or […]

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Another wind farm to be build by Duke Energy till 2012 in Texas

Adrian — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:23:34 +0000

Duke Energy Renewables announced that will construct a large wind farm in Texas. Duke Energy will build, own and operate a wind farm with a big generator capacity of 202 MW. The project called Los Vientos II Wind Power is to sell the electricity and renewable energy credits to Austin Energy. The average amount of […]

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Microbes Generate Electricity While Nuclear Waste is Cleaned Up

Adrian — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:55:23 +0000

Michigan State University comes with interesting news about how microbes generate electricity while nuclear waste is cleaned up. The research team headed by Gemma Reguera a microbiologist at the university published a complete report in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’. The studied microbe is a Geobacter with the ability to immobilize the […]

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Idaho’s Researchers Developed Solar Cells Able to Gather Infrared Radiation

Adrian — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:44:11 +0000

A new kind of solar cell that can produce electricity even at night was developed by the researchers from Idaho. They promised to create a new efficient form of renewable energy. Steven Novack at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory said to UPI in Idaho Falls that the critical factor of this solar […]

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Deepwater Wind Proposed a 1000 Megawatt Wind Farm Near Rhode Island

Adrian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:18:44 +0000

Deepwater Wind, a wind power developer, proposed a 1,000-megawatt wind farm in a spot between Rhode Island and the eastern end of Long Island in New York. Their towers would be so huge, their blades rising 500 feet above the water’s surface, that they would be separated by seven- or eight-tenths of a mile, and thus would […]

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Hydrogen Energy is the Least Polluting

Adrian — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:03:37 +0000

An atom of hydrogen consists of only one proton and one electron. Hydrogen is the simplest element and it’s also the most plentiful element in the universe. Despite its simplicity and its abundance, hydrogen doesn’t occur naturally as a gas on the Earth, it is always combined with other elements. For an example, water is […]

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