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BioSolar Has Proven That Petroleum Products are Not Necessary to Produce Renewable Energy

BioSolar continues to garner media coverage following last month’s announcement that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company’s proprietary BioBacksheet, a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar modules

15 Sep 2008

New Wafer Cutting Method Slices Solar Power Costs

University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost of such cells by reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor

15 Sep 2008

University of Bath Researchers Help Develop New Battery Technology For Electric and Hybrid Cars

Researchers at the University of Bath are helping to develop new rechargeable batteries that could improve hybrid electric cars in the future

15 Sep 2008

Alvarez Construction to Build Energy Efficient and Disaster Resistant SHIP Homes

Alternative Construction Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive supplier agreement with Alvarez Construction Group

15 Sep 2008

Green Building Council Grant to Examine The Effect of Lighting on Learning of School Students

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has earned the notable distinction of receiving one of only 13 first-ever research grants awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The $250,000 grant will fund research for a project titled “Quantifying the Impact of Daylight and Electric Lighting on Student Alertness, Performance, and Well-being in K-12 Schools.”

15 Sep 2008

Space Based Solar Power Solutions for Earth Successfully Demonstrated

Space solar power could be a clean, renewable solution to
America's long-term energy needs

15 Sep 2008

Solar Mirrors for Renewable Energy Industry Improved by Arch Aluminum and Glass

Arch Aluminum and Glass Co., Inc. has developed innovative new mirror manufacturing techniques to meet the demand for lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units in the burgeoning renewable energy industry

11 Sep 2008

Optoelectronics Forum Examines the Role of Photonics in Our Sustainable Future

The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) concluded its Green Photonics forum today examining the role of optoelectronics in a sustainable future

11 Sep 2008

Photovoltech Will Double Its Photovoltaic Cell Production Plant Capacity

Photovoltech announces that it will increase the photovoltaic cell production capacity of its plant in Tienen, Belgium, from 140 MWp1 by end-2009 to 260 MWp by end 2010. For this a new production plant will be built at the present site

11 Sep 2008

Government Acceleration of Energy Saving Targets Encouraged by Disenco Energy

Disenco Energy welcomes Prime Minister Gordon Brown's initiatives to provide £910 million in fuel measures to address rising energy costs, but agrees with consumer groups that much more must be done to combat the soaring burden of home energy fuel bills

11 Sep 2008