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Secret of Less Costly Solar Power

BioSolar, Inc. surprised attendees at today's SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy in San Diego by revealing that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company's proprietary BioBacksheet(TM), a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar cells.

12 Aug 2008

Canon Patent Outlines Plans to Power Electronic Equipment With Fuel Cells

Canon has applied for a patent to power electronic equipment with fuel cells. Other companies have looked at using fuel cells replace batteries in electronic devices from laptop computers to mobile phones but the Canon patent takes things a step further

12 Aug 2008

Researchers Working on Making Wind Turbines Quieter

If wind turbines clatter and whistle too loudly, they are only permitted to operate under partial load to protect the local residents – but this also means a lower electricity output. An active damping system cancels out the noise by producing counter-vibrations

12 Aug 2008

Applied Materials Signs Contract With Green Energy Technology to Support Solar Module Production

Applied Materials announced today that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology Inc. (GET) of Taiwan to support GET's Applied SunFab Thin Film Line for solar module manufacturing. Through its SunFab Performance Service program, the most comprehensive service offering in the solar industry

12 Aug 2008

McDermott International Affiliate to Acquire Specialty Nuclear Fuel Supplier

McDermott International, Inc. announced today that an affiliate of its subsidiary, The Babcock and Wilcox Company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. a provider of specialty nuclear fuels and related services

12 Aug 2008

Birds in the US Moving Breeding Grounds North, Climate Change May Be to Blame

Birds in the Northeastern United States are moving their breeding ranges north, adding to concerns about the planet's changing climate

10 Aug 2008

Direct Formation of Furan Based Biofuels from Cellulose

Researchers have developed an interesting new method for the direct conversion of cellulose into furan-based biofuels

10 Aug 2008

Tiny New Zealand Snail Invades American Great Lakes and Alters the Ecology

Long a problem in the western U.S., the New Zealand mud snail currently inhabits four of the five Great Lakes and is spreading into rivers and tributaries, according to a Penn State team of researchers. These tiny creatures out-compete native snails and insects, but are not good fish food replacements for the native species

10 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

Low Carbon Future of Home Heating Shown by Ecodan System from Mitsubishi Electric

A new website from Mitsubishi Electric aims to highlight the future of residential heating to both consumers and installers alike with an easy to use site dedicated to Ecodan the company’s award-winning low carbon heating system

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

No Evidence to Support Claim That Organic is Best

New research in the latest issue of the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows there is no evidence to support the argument that organic food is better than food grown with the use of pesticides and chemicals

7 Aug 2008

Green and Healthy Baby Nursery Promotes Childrens Health

Wee Generation is a collaboration of environmental visionaries, including Seventh Generation and Healthy Child Healthy World, dedicated to raising awareness about children’s environmental health. They recently did a green and healthy makeover of a baby's nursery

7 Aug 2008

Texans Now Free to Harness Wind Power and Create Clean, Renewable Energy

Babcock & Brown, a leader in wind energy, today announced that a federal court in Texas dismissed a final lawsuit, clearing the path to bring wind energy to South Texas

7 Aug 2008

Thinking of Building a Nuclear Power Plant - UK Government Releases Guide for Applying for a Nuclear Site Licence

In order to construct and operate a nuclear power station (or most other types of nuclear installation) in the UK, a nuclear site licence must be granted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE has released, "Applying for a nuclear site licence for new nuclear power stations - A step-by-step guide".

7 Aug 2008