The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday will roll out a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, setting the first national limits on the chief gas linked to global warming. Read: How Obama’s Power Plant Emission Rules will Work The rule, expected to be final next year, is […]
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Photos of the Day: The Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine
The Archimedes tech firm has designed a wind turbine based on the real (Ancient Greek Mathmetician) Archimedes’ screw pump design. Its design allegedly reduces the noise associated with traditional wind turbines. Read: Can this wind turbine reduce your energy bill by half? It also supposedly has an energy yield that is “80 percent of the […]
A Closer Look at Mars’ Massive Wind Farm
Mars, Incorporated, in partnership with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, announced an agreement on a new 200MW wind farm that will generate 100% of the electricity needs of Mars’ U.S. operations, which is comprised of 70 sites.
TBEA SunOasis Set to Overtake First Solar as World’s Largest Solar EPC Company in 2014
Barcelona, Spain — U.S.-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by Chinese EPC TBEA SunOasis, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS). First Solar installed […]
Improving Power Production Performance of Wind Turbines
Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources in the world today. Dr. Hui Hu and his group at Iowa State University studied the effects of the relative rotation directions of two tandem wind turbines on the power production performance, the flow characteristics in the turbine wake flows, and the resultant wind […]
Energy, everywhere: What’s next for energy harvesting and portable power?
Rapid industrialisation, development of infrastructure and the growing use of electronics is happening quickly around the globe. As a result, managing energy supplies is becoming an increasingly urgent problem, calling for a more sustainable society. The plastic electronics market has been developing energy harvesting technologies as a part of this sustainable vision. Devices such as […]
What’s the best implementation of smart energy strategy that you have seen?
Ed Brorein, Agilent Technologies, Inc., Power and Energy Division While I haven’t seen any one particular smart energy strategy that stands out in orders of magnitude above others from my involvement as part of Agilent Technologies’ Power and Energy Division, I would say many of the best ones are based on what can first be […]
New Turbine Floats 1,000 Feet Above the Ground
For Altaeros Energies, a startup launched out of MIT, the sky’s the limit when it comes to wind power. Founded by alumni Ben Glass ’08, SM ’10 and Adam Rein MBA ’10, Altaeros has developed the world’s first commercial airborne wind turbine, which uses a helium-filled shell to float as high as a skyscraper and […]
Planting the ‘SEEDS’ of Solar Tech in the Home
In an effort to better understand what persuades people to buy photovoltaic (PV) systems for their homes, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are gathering data on consumer motivations that can feed sophisticated computer models and thus lead to greater use of solar energy. A primary goal of the project is to help increase the nation’s […]
New Lithium Battery Created in Japan
The long life of lithium ion batteries makes them the rechargeable of choice for everything from implantable medical devices to wearable consumer electronics. But lithium ion batteries rely on liquid chemistries involving lithium salts dissolved in organic solvents, creating flame risks that would be avoided if the cells were completely solid-state. Now a team of […]