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We are familiar with the better qualities of electric vehicles. They use alternative energy and leave less carbon footprints on the climate. But they are still not mass produced. They have many drawbacks and one has to find a remedy for such disadvantages. One of the hurdles in making them vehicles of masses is [...]
Posted in: Electric Cars, Inventions, Transportation

We are familiar with the fact that photovoltaic and wind energy installations, hydroelectric power stations and biogas resources provide us with much desired clean and green energy and with minimal or no carbon content. But they are still in the stage of infancy and needed more work on them in order to replace fossil [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Inventions

Wind energy is undoubtedly one of the cleanest forms of producing power from a renewable source. There is no pollution, there is no burning of fossil fuels, and unless something very drastic happens, you don’t run out of wind. But it’s not like you can erect a wind turbine anywhere and it will start [...]
Posted in: Industry, Wind Power, Wind Turbines

Environmentalists are continuously searching for green and clean fuel. Until now they have been putting a lot of energy and talent into hydrogen fuels because when hydrogen is burned, the only emission it makes is water vapor. So it is a great advantage that burning of hydrogen doesn’t produce carbon dioxide. Clearly, hydrogen is [...]
Posted in: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel, Waste Energy

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar worked jointly and have come out with their precious device called SunCatchers(TM). They exhibited their four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). SunCatchers are the new dishes that will be utilized on commercial-scale by 2010. Chuck Andraka, [...]
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power

We recently revamped our events page to include a google calendar to help you all keep up with upcoming conferences, shows and workshops that promote energy alternatives and provide networking opportunities for all of you involved in the industry. If you know of any upcoming events/conferences that we have missed, please feel free to [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Politics

When one lives in a developed country it becomes hard to visualize that how people manage in those parts of the world where electricity is still a distant dream. Residents of the village Ahire, Maharashtra in India claimed that people didn’t want to marry their daughters in their village due to lack of electricity. [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power

The progress is being steadily made in the field of alternative energy. Though we have not hit the bull’s eye yet but still the search is on. Scientists and researchers all over the world are spending sleepless nights on their projects to find an all-pervasive alternative to fossil fuels. How can we utilize the [...]
Posted in: Inventions, Solar Power, Transportation

From supermarkets to the office supply store, it’s hard to miss those tiny bottles of 5-hour Energy.