Wind Power Renewable Energy Resources of South Africa by 2013
Wind power resources of South Africa are estimated by SAWEA (South African Wind Energy Association) to exceed 30 GW.
The country has a relatively modest...
Wave power: one of the future sources of energy
By its power the Ocean is set to provide an exciting new source of clean renewable energy which can contribute to the global energy...
Google’s First Biggest Solar Power Tower Plant Till 2013
Google expanded its products portfolio from search engine to solar energy. They had invested $168 million in a Mojave Desert facility on 3,600 acres...
The energy efficient soldier
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Electronics Science and Technology Division are working to help the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) reduce expeditionary energy...
Antihydrogen Atoms Stored for the First Time
Atoms of antimatter have been trapped and stored for the first time by the ALPHA collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN,...
Giraffe Street a swing and solar power generating lighting system
Chen Wei and Lu Yanxin are well known designers to club together fun and eco friendliness concepts.
They come up with a brilliant design, which...
BYD Introduces K9 e-Buses in China
BYD’s all-electric K9 e-bus was officially unveiled at a contract signing ceremony held in BYD’s Changsha Industrial Park. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates attended...
Wind Turbine Tower with Viewing Deck Built on Top of Grouse Mountain near Vancouver
Not many tourists would be willing or able to climb a 60-m ladder just to pop the top hatch of a wind turbine nacelle...
‘Green’ steel and solar cells win Australian innovation awards
Two UNSW-developed technologies have been recognised with Collaborative Innovation Awards at the Cooperative Research Centres Association conference in Adelaide this week.
Low-cost Pluto solar cells...
Nearly Hard as Steel: Aluminum with Fullerenes
Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes —soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60...