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Delta-sigma Modulator and Isolated Amplifier for Use in Renewable Energy Applications

Texas Instruments has declared the introduction of a delta-sigma modulator and an isolated amplifier that allow precise shunt-based electric current measurement in renewable energy applications and motor control.

15 Jul 2011

Australia's Carbon Tax: Good Mechanism or Big ‘Kangaroo Hop’ Backwards?

The Gillard government has set a price on carbon emissions at AUD$23 a tonne, with increases of 5% a year before moving to a market dictated price in three years.

13 Jul 2011

BASF to Invest Heavily in Sustainable Battery Development

Batteries are the key technology for the electromobility of the future. Over the next five years, BASF will be investing a three-digit million euro sum in researching, developing and the production of battery materials.

7 Jul 2011

Berkeley Research Proves Use of Magnetic Memory in Computers Saves Energy

A recent research performed by electrical engineers at the University of California, Berkeley reports that future computers will deploy magnetic microprocessors that intake lesser quantity of electrical energy in comparison with computers of today that use silicon-based microprocessor chips.

5 Jul 2011

Humless Introduces Eco-friendly Generators

Humless has declared the availability of its Humless Roadrunner and Humless Sentinel power systems.

2 Jul 2011

New Technology and Energy Solutions Can Offset Climate Emissions

Anne Louise Koefoed, a researcher at BI Norwegian Business School, stressed the need to find alternatives for fossil fuel through low emission and zero emission technologies. However, such processes are time consuming and expensive.

16 Jun 2011

SINTEF Demonstrates Cost Effective CO2 Capture

SINTEF in Norway will lead a team of 10 partners from Europe to demonstrate a technology that captures CO2 from air to run new power production plants.

15 Jun 2011

Sodium-Manganese Oxide Rechargeable Batteries to Perform Better

A group of scientists working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Department of Energy and visiting researchers from the China located Wuhan University, have formulated a technique that betters the present electrical capacity and recharging life-span of the sodium ion rechargeable batteries.

10 Jun 2011

GexCon Utilizes FLame Acceleration Simulator to Describe Hydrogen Dispersal

GexCon, a Bergen, Norway based company, has remodeled the FLACS (FLame ACceleration Simulator), previously formulated for natural gas modeling, to describe the dispersal of hydrogen. Experiments have proved that the simulator can precisely forecast the consequences of hydrogen dispersal.

3 Jun 2011

New Research Produces Hydrogen Using Ethanol and Sunlight for Use in Fuel Cells

A study report published in Nature Chemistry explains a research conducted by the researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), in using ethanol and sunlight to produce hydrogen, which can be subsequently used as an energy source. The study is considered to be a big leap in the use of hydrogen to substitute fossil fuels.

30 May 2011