The energy efficiency star is the attribute to a quarter of single American homes
According to the Environmental Protection Agency –EPA, the 25% of all single family homes were energy efficiency star certified in the US last year.
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Another wind farm to be build by Duke Energy till 2012 in Texas
Duke Energy Renewables announced that will construct a large wind farm in Texas. Duke Energy will build, own and operate a wind farm with...
Biological fuel cells made from moss
Moss is regarded as a menace by gardeners who seek to eradicate it from their lawns. Now researchers all over the world are exploring...
Eton Mobius iPhone 4 comes with a solar charging case
Nowadays the abundance of mobile solar charging options is very natural. For this reason the appearance of a solar charging case for a smart...
How do windmills create electricity based on wind speed
Power output continues to grow as the wind speed increases, but at a slower rate than it does right after the cut-in point. The...
Lithium-ion batteries with silicone anodes could store more energy
Lithium-ion batteries could store ten times more energy as now if they will be constructed with silicon anodes.
This improvement would eliminate the range issue...
Solar rays could replace petroleum fuels with solar gasoline
Yen-Ting Kuo, a doctoral candidate in chemistry, Taiwan, has spent several years in K-State's chemistry program working to create new materials that better use...
Thinner, better and cheaper solar cells
Do better with less. That is the challenge the researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have set for themselves,...
Need for new magnet materials
Increasing demand and a shrinking supply of rare earth elements for magnets creates a perfect opportunity for a research team from Oak Ridge National...
Improved buildings for major reductions in their lifetime carbon footprint
The construction and operation of buildings accounts for approximately 40 percent of all U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. The most-used building material in the...