Mexico Takes Lead With The Largest LED Street Lighting Project
The project supports the Mexican government’s Special 2010-2012 Climate Change Program to mitigate environmental impacts by reducing the municipality’s energy usage by 29,218,980 million...
ILEK to Build Plus-Energy House of the Future
The Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart has won First Prize in the architectural planning competition "Plus-Energy...
Bad Viruses Could Help Us To Build a New Generation Of Highly Efficient Nano-Batteries...
Viruses have a bad rep-and rightly so. The ability of a virus to quickly and precisely replicate itself makes it a destructive scourge to...
Hawaii Hydrogen Infrastructure To Become Reality by 2015
Ten companies, agencies and universities have joined an initiative between The Gas Company (TGC), and General Motors to make hydrogen-powered vehicles and a...
Berkeley Lab Scientist – Produces More Electricity Than He Consumes
Energy management engineer Steve Greenberg bikes three miles uphill to work every day, rain or shine. He refuses to use a desktop computer, insisting...
Researchers discover a way to simultaneously desalinate water, produce hydrogen and treat wastewater
Fresh water and reusable energy. Humans are on a constant hunt for a sustainable supply of both. Water purification requires a lot of energy,...
LED Lighting Market Will Surpass $1 Billion in Annual Revenue by 2014
Groom Energy and Greentech Media Research predict that the LED enterprise lighting market will grow next year by 30 percent and surpass $1 billion in...
Green Way to Get Heat and Electricity with Help of Fuel Cells
The generation of electricity and heat with no pollution and with considerably less emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 sounds too good to...
Investments in rural energy efficiency could reduce greenhouse gas emissions
In the developing world, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen as being in conflict with alleviating poverty, since improving the standard of living...
Thermoelectric technology uses auto exhaust heat to create electricity
Researchers are creating a system that harvests heat from an engine's exhaust to generate electricity, reducing a car's fuel consumption.
The effort is funded with...