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Turning Highways and Parking Lots into Solar Collectors

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun's warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way to use that heat-soaking property for an alternative energy source.

12 Aug 2008

Determining the Presumed Energy and Cost Savings from Alternative-Energy Technology

Cost savings, energy sources, appliances and more are all subjects for ongoing experimentation this summer in the University of Cincinnati solar house.

12 Aug 2008

Greenblock Insulated Concrete Form Wall Systems to Benefit Housing in Locations With Extreme Weather and Temperatures

Greenblock Worldwide Corporation, a leader and pioneer in the insulated concrete form (ICF) industry, announced that they have begun marketing their ICF products and installation services in Arizona

10 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Being Used to Make Antennas That Collect Heat and Produce Electricity

Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources

10 Aug 2008

MIT Named One of the Top 25 Environmentally Responsible Schools in the Kaplan College Guide 2009

MIT has been named one of the top 25 environmentally responsible schools in the Kaplan College Guide 2009

7 Aug 2008

Guide Released by World Bank and UN to Show City Planners The Climate Change Vulnerability of Their City

Practical help is at hand for city planners and administrators around the world who are attempting to come to terms with the increased risks that many major urban centers now face as a result of climate change

6 Aug 2008

Kawneer Launches Website to Promote Sustainable Building Materials

As an expression of its long-term commitment to sustainability, Kawneer Company, Inc., the leading manufacturer of architectural aluminum building products and systems for commercial construction, has launched Kawneergreen.com

5 Aug 2008

Super Efficient Solar Cells Will Absorb So Much Light They Will Look Black

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently

5 Aug 2008

Future Solar Cells May Look Totally Black

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008