 Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves. | |
 Solution to high energy costs could lie underground July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it’s not coal or oil. It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES). | |
 Hydrogen cars commercially unavailable until 2020: Mazda June 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Hydrogen-powered cars will not be commercially available on a large scale before 2020, a senior official from Japanese auto maker Mazda said Monday in Spain at an international oil conference. | |
 Britain outlines wind farm expansion plans June 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across Britain by 2020 as part of multi-billion pound plans to switch to more sustainable energy sources, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday. | |
Major progress in technology needed for 25 percent renewable energy use to be affordable June 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025 without significantly increasing consumer ... | |
 Irish scientists probe seaweed power June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Ireland could become a key player in the production of biofuel from seaweed, scientists told a conference in the west of the country on Monday. | |
Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and ... | |
Electrical A-G Ratings may be on the way out June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Plans to scrap the A-G electrical rating system – the equivalent of HIPS in the electrical sector – may be on the cards according to a new report out today in the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) magazine, Chemistry & ... | |
 Mitsubishi, Peugeot may team up in electric cars: statement June 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Japan's Mitsubishi Motors and France's PSA Peugeot Citroen said Tuesday they may collaborate in technology for electric vehicles as the global race to build green cars heats up. | |
 Cambridge University Eco Racing solar car drive across Britain June 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
This year Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) have designed and built the UK's first road legal solar car. | |
 Toyota says to produce new hybrid battery next year June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to start producing lithium-ion batteries next year as it races against rivals to develop new high-mileage hybrid vehicles. | |
 Getting wrapped up in solar textiles June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute ... | |
 German solar sector starting to attract investors June 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Germany's solar energy industry can breathe a sigh of relief: Subsidies are set for smaller cuts than expected, and the sector is set for consolidation many say is the crucial next step in its development. ... | |
 As energy bills soar, Japanese test fuel of future June 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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As world oil prices skyrocket, thousands of households in energy-poor Japan are taking part in an ambitious experiment to use fuel cells to light and heat their homes. | |
 Africa's deserts could supply solar electricity to continent: experts June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Solar power from Africa's deserts could supply all 600 million citizens currently without electricity and even export power to Europe, a green energy conference in Nairobi heard Thursday. | |
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