Solar thermal plants cheap electricity solution
Electricity supplied by solar panels is expensive in this stage and more than that is intermittent because depends on the weather.
Halotechnics is one of...
Innovative 3-D designs to improve the performance of solar photovoltaic cells
Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.
Intensive research around the world has...
Solio CLIP-Mini a new eco gadget to power portable devices
An eco gadget called Solio Clip-Mini USB and Solar Rechargeable LED light is described by Treehugger as pocket sized flashlight with a big potential.
This...
Kinetic LED chandellier more than energy efficient
Through a Treehugger's article on kinetic LED chandelliers we found something interesting about the subject.
A British interdisciplinary studio called Troika offers „a tantalizing glimpse”...
Cheap batteries based on biological polymer
A breakthrough for inexpensive electricity from solar cells, and a massive investment in wind power, will mean a need to store energy in an...
Liquid-like materials for new thermoelectric devices
In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials—which convert heat into electricity and vice versa—researchers have identified a liquid-like compound whose properties give it...
Higher potential for wind energy in India than previously estimated
A new assessment of wind energy in India by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that the potential for on-shore wind energy deployment is...
Solar cell using carbon nanotubes turns windows into generators
Imagine a world where the windows of high-rise office buildings are powerful energy producers, offering its inhabitants much more than some fresh air, light...
English Church goes on renewable energy and most on solar power
The Treehugger published an article about a 900 year old house of worship which goes green and became first zero carbon church in Britain.
Many...
A team of engineers has harnessed a sophisticated weather model to optimize offshore wind...
Using a sophisticated weather model, environmental engineers at Stanford have defined optimal placement of a grid of four wind farms off the U.S. East...