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Prototype Biomass Electric Generator Completed by Cyclone Power Technologies

Cyclone Power Technologies announced today that is has completed development of a working prototype biomass power generator, the first system of its kind capable of allowing homes, farms and small commercial enterprises to produce electricity from vegetative waste and byproducts

16 Sep 2009

US EPA 2009 Green Power Leadership Award Given To Applied Materials for Green Energy

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has received a 2009 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

16 Sep 2009

Carbon Nanotubes to be The Building Block of Super Efficient Solar Cells

Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops

15 Sep 2009

Big Leap Forward for Generating Hydrogen Using Sunlight

RoseStreet Labs Energy scientists announced a leap forward in generating hydrogen gas directly from sunlight by a photoelectrochemical cell

15 Sep 2009

Carbon Trust Backs Large Scale Offshore Energy Generation

New investment to focus on finding innovative and cost-effective ways to install and maintain large-scale offshore devices

14 Sep 2009

Clean and Affordable Energy to Come From the Applied Materials Solar fab2farm Model

To help meet the world’s critical need for renewable energy, Applied Materials, Inc. has developed an innovative fab2farm business model for solar deployment designed to bring cost-effective, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation capability to local areas and stimulate economic development

14 Sep 2009

Rapidly Growing Wind Energy and Power Grid Markets in India Results in the Formation of AMSC India

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global energy technologies company, today announced that it has formed AMSC India to serve India’s rapidly growing wind energy and power grid markets with AMSC’s power electronics and superconductor-based solutions

14 Sep 2009

Solar Energy System Integrated into Attractive Building Facade

Luvata’s Nordic Solar System integrates the attractiveness of patinated copper on the outside with a hidden solar thermal energy system on the underside. The heat transfer mechanism is behind the buildings’ copper envelope and as the Sun warms the façade or the roof, the heat is collected

14 Sep 2009

Researchers Make High Resolution 3D Images of The Inside of a Polymer Solar Cell

Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell

13 Sep 2009