Recently Sun Microsystems started a campaign to present evidence that telecommuting is not just a simple convenience for workers, but with the current world situation is a very real solution to the environmental crisis. The morning routine goes beyond struggling to find something to wear, fight traffic or gauntlet of public transportation. The Sun Microsystems [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Today electronics giant Texas Instruments (TI) announced that it has acquired the energy-saving power supply company Commergy Technologies. When everyday more electronics devices are introduced in the daily lives of thousands of people, what does devices consume in energy becomes non-trivial as an impact on the environment.
Commergy Technologies is an Ireland-based company that its main [...]
BP as agreed to invest in biofuels in venture in Brazil. The venture is to produce ethanol from sugar cane in Brazil, they say this proposal would not affect food supplies. From the $560m, BP will take a 50% stake in a venture with $60m, and will further invest the remaining $500m in two other [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Recently I came to learn from this new home ethanol systems soon to be put into sale. It is call the Efuel100 MicroFueler the world’s first portable ethanol micro-refinery system. The unique component of the system, it replaces the traditional ethanol reflux column system with a solid state distillation technology, making it possible for homeowners [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Solar Cells printed on a Inkjet ?
Solar Energy from new manufacturing techniques promises to lower the high cost of producing and adopting this clean renewable energy. With the high prices for oil these days, there has been a rampant adoption and increase in demand for solar panels in recent years. The increase in solar panels [...]
Today I will expose again the novel rechargeable batteries developed by A123 Systems. With their new technology they claim to have created a battery breakthrough with a technology that increases performance, packages with larger storage capacity and reducing the recharge times. These advances would hopefully open the door for some real progress in the adoption [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )1 Utility Scale Solar power plant, from the eSolar.com website, a new startup on solar thermal scalable electric power plants
eSolar Inc., was founded in 2007, has already closed $130 million in funding from several investors for scalable solar thermal power plants. The latest investor to join in the venture is Google.org, investing a $10 million [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Spain solar industry for the year 2007 has increase rampantly 10 times greater than the recorded from 2005. That is 250m euro to 2.5 billion in investments increase in the solar industry in two years. It is without doubt that Spain renewable energy efforts are admirable and should be mirrored by the entire world. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The newly introduced “Securing America’s Energy Independence Act” is giving lots of hope to the solar industry in America. It is indeed the largest solar energy legislation ever introduced in the United States.
If passed, it would boost solar energy investments by making them more affordable in all states. In the Southern States, solar energy investments [...]
Check this out. A new method for solar panel sun tracking that does not use any electronics, electrical power, nor motor or computers. It is a new type of “passive” solar tracker that uses a combination of direct sunlight (radiant heat) and shade (ambient air temp) to affect the thermal expansion and contraction of a [...]
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