Georgia Tech and Ford Motors have developed an innovative "Green Eco School Bus”.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Enel Green Power North America (EGP NA) has commenced the construction work at its Caney River Wind Project (Caney) in Elk County, Kansas.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
AlumiFuel Power (API), a Pennsylvania-based hydrogen producing company, has combined with its Illinois-based key contractor, Ingenium Technologies to develop a hydrogen generating system for powering Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) with its own AlumiFuel powders.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Metabolix (NASDAQ: MBLX), a bioscience company focused on developing clean, sustainable solutions for plastics, chemicals and energy, today announced that Senior Scientist Dr. Rajendra K. Krishnaswamy was honored by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) with a lifetime achievement award for his considerable contributions to the polymers industry.
Voith Hydro, a joint venture of Siemens and Voith, declared that it has received two orders from two Chinese utility companies for hydro power projects in China.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Collecting the available solar light efficiently is a problem with most of the solar panels supplied in the markets today. A majority of them harvest only 20% of the available light.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
A team of scientists led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further improved the power conversion capabilities of flexible solar cells manufactured utilizing copper indium gallium (di)selenide or CIGS.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
A new project report titled, ‘Drops of Energy: Conserving Urban Water in California to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions,’ emphasizes the need for saving water to save energy and to cut down green house gas discharges.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
The Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) of the California Energy Commission has declared a grant of $1.4 million for UC San Diego to speedup the growth and usage of green renewable energy in California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
At Chinaplas 2011, booth 10.2E21, the Innovative Plastics strategic business unit of SABIC announced a new milestone in its expanding sustainability efforts to provide customers with a diverse portfolio of high-performance, environmentally responsible materials.
Nanoscale antennas hold out the promise of higher resolution optical imaging of nano objects, including proteins and DNA molecules, and converting solar energy into electricity at very high efficiencies.
Community Energy Solar, a utility level solar projects developing company, declared that it has entered into a 15 year power purchase accord with Exelon Generation, a utility company, to supply the power generated from its 6 MW solar power facility being constructed in Lancaster County, PA. The accord also covers the sale of renewable energy credits generated from the project.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
eIQ Energy, a company that deploys a unique power management technology to provide inexpensive and efficient solar power, has contracted an accord with Granite Construction to supply Parallel Solar technology for its hot mix facility and aggregate located in Coalinga, California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Cellana, a Hawaii-based company engaged in the development of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts, has obtained a three year grant of $5.5 million through a competitive selection process to formulate a protein supplement as a spin-off product from algae during the biofuel production process and to establish its dietary and economical value in cattle feeds.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011
Opcon Bioenergy, an auxiliary of Opcon, the energy and ecological technology group, has declared the contracting of a final accord with Falbygden Energi to supply a new combined heating and power plant (CHP) utilizing bioenergy source to Marjarp, Falköping.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 May 2011