A new approach to the cooling of buildings across the developing world that needs nothing but wind and sun to operate has been devised by engineers in India. Writing in the inaugural issue of Inderscience's International Journal of Sustainable Design, the team explains the concept of a combined solar chimney and wind tower system that can reduce the temperature of incoming appear by 5 degrees Celsius.
The Basque ALBIASA group has development plans to invest 300 million euros up to 2010 aimed at promoting various photoelectric parks, a thermosolar plant and premises for the manufacture of photoelectric cells.
Abu Dhabi today broke ground on Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car- free city. The global milestone event was marked by the laying of a virtual cornerstone by His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and a visually stunning production depicting life in the city.
In2 Networks, a developer of Internet-connected utility management systems for consumer and commercial applications, today announced that at this year's International Home Builders' Show the company will unveil its simple and affordable, web-based technology enabling individuals and businesses to control their home or office environment from the Internet.
Like two ballroom dancers waltzing together, the two atoms of an oxygen molecule severed by a metal catalyst usually behave identically. But new research reveals that on a particular catalyst, split oxygen atoms act like a couple dancing the tango: one oxygen atom plants itself while the other shimmies away, probably with energy partially stolen from the stationary one.
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, is one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced that it has signed a new sales contract with Recurrent Energy, Inc., a solar services provider based in San Francisco, U.S.A.
Four cutting-edge research projects at the University of Toronto have been awarded $23 million from the Province of Ontario through its Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence program.
The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation today announced a $6 million initiative to advance a clean-energy future for Texas. The initiative's goal is to improve air quality and reduce global warming pollution while growing the Texas economy.
Bella Energy, a Boulder based solar energy company that installs and maintains solar energy systems in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region, has installed a 22.8 kilowatt solar system on Oceanic Preservation Society’s Boulder film production studio.
Increasing public concerns about climate change -- and its potential economic and political security consequences -- are driving public policy and private investment to bring clean energy technologies from the fringes of the global energy industry to the center of activities as quickly as possible, a new analysis by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) has concluded.
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