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Laptops, Mobile Phones and Remote Sensors to be Powered by Microfluidic Fuel Cells

Microfluidic fuel cells could provide the necessary energy to provide continuous power to remote sensors, mobile phones and laptops, according to a University of Southampton student

14 Jul 2009

IMEC Forms New Solar Cell Partnerships

IMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers

14 Jul 2009

Gasoline Composition is Changing

Increasing availability of renewable fuels like ethanol is changing the composition of the fuels offered to American drivers. With these changes in mind, the Renewable Fuels Foundation (RFF) has released its definitive resource on gasoline quality, "Changes in Gasoline Manual IV".

12 Jul 2009

Argonne National Lab and Turkey Team Up on Green Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

12 Jul 2009

Applied Materials Shows Strategy For Making Solar Power Affordable for Everyone, Everywhere

Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing equipment, will showcase its strategy to make solar power affordable for everyone, everywhere, at the Intersolar North America event in San Francisco next week

12 Jul 2009

Suncatcher Solar Power Dishes Unveiled at Sandia

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

12 Jul 2009

Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanopillars

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low cost and flexible materials

9 Jul 2009

California Energy Supplier Picks SOLON to Build 2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

U.S. energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, has commissioned the SOLON Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California

9 Jul 2009

National Solar Thermal Test Facility Shows Off New SunCatcher Power System

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers (TM), the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010

8 Jul 2009