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Solar Energy’s Dropping Costs Fuels Green Energy Investments
At the heart of the clean energy business there are the readily renewable options such as wind and solar (and marine tidal), requiring lesser construction related foundations, beyond equipment installation and operation than its…
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Denmark Upgrades Wind Turbine Capacity, Reduces Number
An overwhelming statistical fact throws light on the evolution of wind turbines, according to the Danish Energy Agency Energistyrelsen (and its associated 4 decades of statistical data), in charge of following up on the development of the…
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MIT’s New Invention Harvests Energy from Changes in Ambient Temperature
When two different materials have different temperatures, the temperature gradient causes the charge carriers to move from the hotter material to the cooler material. This conversion of temperature gradient into electricity and vice versa…
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Affordable, Accessible Fusion Power: A Reality in “Years, Not Decades”
Fusion – “the process that powers the sun” – releases energy when two atomic nuclei bump to each other, fusing together, resulting in one bigger nucleus. It is known as the source capable of generating the most energy so far, making it a…
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This New Breakthrough Could Boost the Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells
The organic solar cell technology promises low-cost manufacturing, abundant raw materials, and lightweight, flexible substrates. These benefits address the limitations of current photovoltaic cells on the market. However, the efficiency of…
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MIT’s Open Source Tool Predicts Solar Cell Performance per Location
“If you have a new solar cell technology, you can see where your technology might be able to outcompete commercial silicon solar cells,” explains Tonio Buonassisi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts’s Institute…
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China Moves Closer To Being Free From Gas Powered Autos
There is little doubt that China gets “it”.In a world where urbanization has become synonymous with air pollution and using imported resources for energy, daily life becomes a question of political dependency. If cities like Shanghai or…
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Toshiba’s New SCiB EV Battery Charges for 200 Miles in 6 Minutes
While most would agree that Toshiba is not as popular as Samsung SDI, Panasonic, or Tesla, in terms of electric car batteries, the company has made efforts in order to build a more prominent name in this industry.After years of research,…
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Kite Wind Turbines Could Power Saudi Arabia’s Future
The concept of building wind turbines that can be raised as a kite and tethered to batteries or the electrical grid has been around for quite some time.These devices seem to be a better choice than the systems that use wind in order to…
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Germany: Wind Power Just Overtook All Other Forms of Electrical Generation
This morning in Germany, wind power created the need to pay consumers to use electricity. This is probably some sort of historic event, but if you take a step back, it isn’t hard to see how wind and solar power could shatter the world as we…
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