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Sea Slugs Live Like Solar Powered Plants

The lowly sea slug, "Elysia chlorotica," may not seem like the most exciting of creatures, but don't be fooled - it behaves like a plant and is solar-powered

25 Nov 2008

Greenwashing Hype and False Environmental Claims Tarnishing British Businesses

The green credentials of British businesses are falling far short of their environmental claims

25 Nov 2008

Finnish Project to Produce Biofuels from Fish Waste

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and its partners have launched ENERFISH, a three-year project concerned with producing biodiesel from the waste generated at a fish processing plant

25 Nov 2008

Award to Help Researchers Develop Novel Method of Storing Thermal Energy in Concrete

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas will receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a novel method of storing thermal energy in concrete

25 Nov 2008

Largest Solar Power Plan in America is Coming to Los Angeles

Solar LA, the country’s largest solar power plan, has been unveiled which will jumpstart the green economy in Los Angeles with the installation of 1.3 gigawatts of solar power

25 Nov 2008

"Green" Electricity to Help Meet 2050 UK Carbon Emissions Target

Extensive use of low-carbon "green" electricity could help the UK dramatically cut its carbon emissions by 2050, say the leaders of a new research programme to be announced this week at Imperial College London....

24 Nov 2008

MIT Researchers Find Way to Make Solar Cells More Efficient

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT

24 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology Experiments Leads to Low Cost Solar Cells That Make Themselves

Researchers has shown that the corkscrew like polymer gyroid structure can be used to self-assemble into a low-cost photovoltaic cell

24 Nov 2008

Western North Carolina to Get World's Largest Solar Thermal Project for Heating and Cooling

Acquisition is expected to put Western North Carolina on the map as the sustainability capital of the U.S., with new company's immediate focus to own and operate $14 million worth of solar installations in North Carolina

24 Nov 2008

Generating Energy from Slow Flowing Currents by Thinking Like a Fish

Low-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power

24 Nov 2008