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Micro-Hybrid Technology Set to Cut Emissions and Fuel Use in Cars

The EUREKA E! 3734 i-StARS project is developing a compact, fully integrated and low-cost start-stop system for cars to replace conventional alternators in mass production. This second-generation starter alternator reversible system (StARS) is intended to enable the European automotive industry to meet new EU emissions legislation and significantly reduce fuel consumption without needing to redesign the engine.

15 Jan 2009

Electronics Recycling Program, Plug-In to eCycling, Expands

Plug-In to eCycling partners expanded their electronics recycling programs

8 Jan 2009

Inertia Could be the Key to Fluctuations in Wind Speed and Wind Power Generation

A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of Power Electronics

8 Jan 2009

Wal-Mart Joins E-Waste Recycling Campaign

Lucky recipients of a new TV, laptop or monitor for Christmas have a new way to recycle their old equipment in Washington State

8 Jan 2009

Carbon Nanotube Ink the Key to Solar Cells and Transistors Becoming Thinner and Lighter

Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink" which can then be printed into such thin, flexible electronics as transistors and photovoltaic materials

8 Jan 2009

Award for Electronics Recycling at Brookhaven Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory was named a winner in the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive's third annual Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign at a White House ceremony on December 16

8 Jan 2009

Sustainable Energy Technologies Makes Greg Nelson Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. is pleased to announce that Greg Nelson has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company effective January 5, 2009

8 Jan 2009

Free Recycling Added to HP Trade-In Program

HP has introduced a program that offers consumers in the United States a simple way to receive cash for their unwanted technology equipment or, if there is no value, to recycle it

6 Jan 2009

Large Order Placed For Photovoltaics Solar Cell Manufacturing Equipment

Despatch Industries, a leading process technology provider for the solar industry, announces their recent large volume sale of photovoltaic manufacturing equipment

5 Jan 2009

Research Grant Awarded to Use Nanotechnology to Develop Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells

The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey has been awarded a major research grant by the energy giant E.ON based in Germany as part of their 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business' to use nanotechnological expertise to develop organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells

5 Jan 2009