 Hitachi, GE to develop smaller nuclear reactors July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Japan's Hitachi and US giant General Electric will team up to sell midsize nuclear reactors to meet growing demand for power facilities in Southeast Asia, a Hitachi spokesman said Wednesday. | |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
Closing the hydrogen economic loop July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. | |
 Automakers offer hybrids for NYC taxi fleet July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Three major auto manufacturers are promising to reserve 300 new hybrid vehicles each month exclusively for the city as it replaces its entire fleet of yellow cabs. | |
 Toyota to equip Prius with solar panels: report July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. plans to add solar panels to its popular Prius hybrid early next year to power the vehicle's air conditioning, a newspaper report said on Monday. | |
 Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 45 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: 4.3 / 5 after 32 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. | |
 National park in Alaska tests hybrid bus July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and spoiled the tranquility with their noisy, ... | |
Hydrogen vehicles making impressive progress toward commercialization July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive ... | |
Hyundai to Start Retail Sales of First Hybrid in July 2009 July 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Hyundai Motor Company plans to start retail sales of its first LPG–electric hybrid vehicle in July 2009. To be sold initially in the Korean domestic market under the Avante badge, the Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) ... | |
 GM to build world's biggest rooftop solar station in Spain July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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US automaker General Motors said Tuesday it will equip the roof of its factory in Zaragoza in northeastern Spain with solar panels to create the world's largest rooftop source of power from the sun. | |
 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. | |
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