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Application Engineer Named for Dow Corning European Solar Business

Dow Corning has named Codin-Sorel Ureche as Application Engineer & Technical Services (AETS) for its Solar Market Business Unit in Europe, which provides silicon-based solutions throughout the entire solar value chain

2 Aug 2009

World's Largest Pole Attached Solar Installation

Petra Solar, Inc., the leading provider of innovative photovoltaic (PV) solutions for utilities, will be producing 200,000 smart solar systems for installation on PSE and G utility poles and street light poles in the largest pole-attached solar installation in the world

31 Jul 2009

Segway Inventor Takes His Private Island Off The Grid

Segway inventor Dean Kamen has resolved to live only on the energy he can produce with the island's renewables - a wind turbine, solar panels, and his own redesign of the Stirling engine. The key to using energy within his means is cutting energy consumption

30 Jul 2009

Battery and Supercapacitor Market for Smart Grids Set to Boom

The market for battery and supercapacitor storage systems for Smart Grid applications will grow from $1.5 billion in 2012 to $8.3 billion in 2016, according to a new report from NanoMarkets

30 Jul 2009

Renewable Fuels Association Happy With Obama Support for American Ethanol

Ethanol producers around the country are very pleased by the Obama Administration’s rapid action to clarify its continuing support and strong belief in the American ethanol industry

30 Jul 2009

Biodiesel Fuel Made From Shrimp Shells

Call it a "shrimp cocktail" for your fuel tank. Scientists in China are reporting development of a catalyst made from shrimp shells that could transform production of biodiesel fuel into a faster, less expensive, and more environmentally friendly process

30 Jul 2009

Revolutionary Prototype Wind Turbine Based On Work of Nicola Tesla Unveiled

Solar Aero Research, a New Hampshire non-profit alternative energy research corporation, today unveiled the proof-of-concept prototype of its revolutionary wind turbine

29 Jul 2009

Energy Challenge Prize Announced by Premier of NSW, Australia

A new $5 million international prize has been announced to keep the State of NSW at the forefront of clean energy

29 Jul 2009

Microbial Fuel Cell Research Increases Power Output of Fuel Cells

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, scientists supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power

29 Jul 2009

Cheaper and Better Flexible Solar Cells A Step Closer to Reality

A new class of economically viable solar power cells-cheap, flexible and easy to make-has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at NIST, where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices

28 Jul 2009