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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

Study of Giant Grass May Lead to Better Corn Yields and Biofuels Revolution

A giant perennial grass used as a biofuels source has a much longer growing season than corn, and researchers think they’ve found the secret of its success. Their findings offer a promising avenue for developing cold-tolerant corn, an advance that would significantly boost per-acre yields

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

Energy Efficient Ecolumination Headlights Demonstracted by BMW Race Car at Silverstone

Ceravision Ltd, the company behind the ultra energy-efficient Ecolumination lighting range, recently partnered with leading motor racing team, West Surrey Racing, to demonstrate its automotive lighting system

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

Environmentally Friendly Air Purifier Available Before Christmas

This holiday season give the gift of "green" air with Alen Corporation's new eco-friendly Paralda -- the first and only environmentally friendly air purifier ever available for purchase in America

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

'Coming Clean' Book Offers Solutions, Tools, Hope to Break America's Fossil Fuel Addiction

'Purging this country of its two-century addiction to fossil fuels is the great task of our time. Here is the resource we have long needed.' - Bill McKibben, environmentalist and bestselling author

15 Sep 2008

Effects of Alternate Fuels To Be Evaulated For U.S. Air Force Aircraft by Goodrich

Goodrich Corporation has received a contract from Universal Technology Corporation to evaluate the effects of using alternate fuels in Goodrich fuel measurement and management systems on U.S. Air Force aircraft

15 Sep 2008

UK Government Launches Home Energy Saving Programme

The Home Energy Saving Programme provides assistance to householders to make their homes more energy efficient, and for households most vulnerable to fuel poverty, including all pensioner households, gives help with their bills this winter through the winter fuel payments and lower energy company tariffs

15 Sep 2008