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• German PV Solar Industry Is Thriving

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  Germany will add up to three gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity this year due to a strong demand in the last part of this year, the head of Germany’s Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft (BSW-Solar) solar industry association announced. Germany is the world leader in photovoltaic (PV) solar panel power, with 5.3 GW ...
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• Eco Tech: Coral-shaped nanomaterials better efficiency of solar cells

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 129
  Eco Factor: Tin-oxide nanomaterials shaped like coral for more efficiency. In an effort to enhance the efficiency of solar panels Chinese researchers have proposed unique coral-shaped nanomaterials that can be made from porous materials such as tin oxide. However, changing the structure and morphology of the ...
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• Emissions trading scheme dispute rocks Liberals

  
  eco media — Authority: 424
  Five senior Liberal Party frontbenchers and senators have resigned their portfolios over a vote on the proposed emissions trading scheme. The Liberal Party and leader Malcolm Turnbull were left in crisis today after Tony Abbott, Tony Smith, Sophie Mirabella and Senators Eric Abetz and Nick Minchin all stepped down in ...
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• Floating Algae Park between Brooklyn and Manhattan to produce bio-fuel

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  The PORT architects Andrew Moddrell from Chicago and Christopher Marcinkoski from New York propose the Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park that will tout a series of algae pontoons to convert carbon-dioxide emissions from NYC’s busy streets into bio-fuel. The temporary floating carbon-capturing bridge between Brooklyn ...
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• My Earth4Energy Review: How I made free electricity at home

  
  Share Your Experiences...with the World — Authority: 128
  This is my own Earth4Energy review. Lots of folks have been getting this how-to guide, so does it live up to all the hype? Let’s take a peek.First off, I’m a hard working guy that doesn’t like to throw his money down the drain, my wife even accuses me of being a miser at times… [...]
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• Eco Tech: Illinois researchers develop spherical solar cells to capture more light

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 129
  Eco Factor: Energy-efficient solar cells capture more light without the use of sun trackers. The amount of energy produced by a solar cell depends on the amount of incident sunlight. Since the position of the sun changes in the sky, manufacturers have developed sun tracking mirrors that can continuously focus ...
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• Housing+ for on-site renewable energy generation

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 649
  Designed by C. F. Møller Architects in cooperation with Moe & Brødsgaard, Cenergia, Phillips, Schüco, Erik Juul and Vogt landscape, the Housing+ is a passive housing that supports on-site renewable energy generation. Located around Aalborg waterfront in Denmark, the pilot-project features a long sloping ...
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• Zero-energy 60 residence passive housing project to generate on-site renewable energy

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  The future housing projects will seek to provide its inhabitants with on-site power generation so that they don’t have to rely on external power sources. One such Zero-energy concept project, dubbed as Housing+, featured a 60-residence colony designed by C.F. Moller Architects . Planned next to Aalborg Waterfront ...
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• Eco Architecture: Costanera Sur – A sustainable skyscraper for animals

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 129
  Eco Factor: Self-sufficient skyscraper proposal provides water and energy to surrounding structures. Visiondivision has proposed a unique skyscraper that won’t house offices or apartments but will provide sustainable living space for animals. Dubbed Costanera Sur, the vertical zoo will be built from debris ...
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• Bangladesh PM’s office goes solar to encourage green energy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Dhaka, Nov 26 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has installed a solar power system at her office to encourage green energy expansion in her power-starved nation.The country’s single largest solar power system, with a peaking capacity of generating 21.6 kilowatts, is now operating on a trial basis, ...
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• Could electricity come from the air?

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 484
  Researchers at the City College of New York are developing a new way to generate power for planes and road vehicles, which would source electricity from air flow. Using short, flexible piezoelectric cantilever beams which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity, the researchers believe the power ...
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• Global Energy Holdings Group files Chapter 11 – Newsday

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Global Energy Holdings seeks Chapter 11 protection WILMINGTON, Del. - WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Global Energy Holdings Group, an Atlanta-based renewable energy company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. In a filing Wednesday ...
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• New Kind of Power Plant Gets Energy From Salt Water

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  A Norwegian company thinks it can squeeze enough electricity out of the natural phenomenon of osmosis to power China. Right now the company’s plant can barely heat a tea kettle, but officials hope to power a village in a few years, and a lot more after that. It works by separating seawater and freshwater with a ...
  13 hours ago

• Algae Could Be the Key to Ultra-Thin Biodegradable Batteries

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels , but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries. Read the rest of ...
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• Local Targets - Good for UK Renewable Energy?

  
  Wind Energy Planning — Authority: 118
  The Conservative party tell us they are all about local empowerment and ‘decentralised devolution’. Their decentralisation green paper ‘Control Shift’ released earlier this year set out proposals for change if they are elected next year. Conservative proposals include abolishing all planning and housing ...
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• Building a good working capacity NI Fe Battery.

  
  Electronic Circuits Projects Diagrams Free — Authority: 167
  Ive been watching how to videos on the Internet and reading up on the old Edison type Nickel Iron batteries. There are loads of claims that they are superior to many of the modern types of rechargeable batteries. The problem is I am rather skeptical simply because what they claim Vs what I am seeing for actual ...
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• SOLAR LIGHTS UP THE CENTURIES

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  The origins of solar energy can be traced as far back as the 7th century BC.  The ancient Egyptians used the sun’s heat to bake straw and mud into bricks which they used as building blocks.Ancient Greeks and Romans recognised the benefits of what we now call passive solar design – using architecture to maximise ...
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• US Dept of Energy Investing in Small Business Renewable Energy Projects

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 119
  RenewableEnergyFocus.com, November 25, 2009The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will fund $18 million to support small business innovation research, development and deployment of clean and renewable energy technologies, including projects to advance wave and current energy technologies, ocean thermal energy conversion ...
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• Mass. moves to streamline renewable energy efforts – WTOP Radio

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to streamline the states push for renewable energy. The new law transfers the states Renewable Energy Trust to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, creating a single agency ...
  18 hours ago

• Power of osmosis used to deliver eco-friendly energy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A Norwegian firm is testing a renewable and emission-free source of energy that harnesses the power of water through osmosis The worlds first test plant to harness osmotic power, a new emission-free source of energy, opened on Tuesday, in Norway. Nestled amid pine-covered hills on the banks of the Oslo fjord, 60km ...
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