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Emmy Award for Litepanels LED Lights

Litepanels, Inc., the worldwide leader in LED (light emitting diode) television and motion picture lighting equipment, will be awarded a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its proprietary lighting systems

30 Jul 2009

Revolutionary Prototype Wind Turbine Based On Work of Nicola Tesla Unveiled

Solar Aero Research, a New Hampshire non-profit alternative energy research corporation, today unveiled the proof-of-concept prototype of its revolutionary wind turbine

29 Jul 2009

Ford Looks to Use Renewable 'Liquid Wood' in Vehicles

As part of its commitment to increase the use of renewable materials in vehicle components, Ford's European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany, is investigating an innovative, new wood-plastic-compound (WPC), so-called liquid wood

29 Jul 2009

Sustainability Award Won by University of Sydney

The development of a new assessment tool for organisations to calculate their ecological footprint has seen the University of Sydney take out the public sector sustainability category of the state's leading environmental awards

29 Jul 2009

Energy Challenge Prize Announced by Premier of NSW, Australia

A new $5 million international prize has been announced to keep the State of NSW at the forefront of clean energy

29 Jul 2009

Microbial Fuel Cell Research Increases Power Output of Fuel Cells

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, scientists supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power

29 Jul 2009

Efficient LED Lights Suffering From 'Droop'

LED lights are bedeviled by a problem known as droop, which kicks in just as the power levels begin to get high enough for general lighting

29 Jul 2009

Bond University Students Develop Green Toolkit to Show Businesses How to Make Money While Reducing Emissions

Bond University students have designed a CSIRO award-winning 'green business toolkit' which shows companies how reducing carbon emissions can increase their returns

29 Jul 2009

Energy Efficient Fuel Tanker Under Development

Alcoa and CIMC Vehicles, a leading specialty truck manufacturer in China, announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership, to design and develop a new, energy-efficient, aluminum fuel tanker trailer for the Asian market

29 Jul 2009

Global Cooling the Likely Result of Nuclear War

While global warming looms large as a serious threat, a leading physicist visiting Sydney this week says we should be just as concerned about the catastrophe that would result from widespread global cooling following a nuclear war

29 Jul 2009

Lubricants Made From Sunflower Oil Just As Good As Petro Chemical Ones

A research group of the University of Huelva (UHU) has proven with a lab trial the efficiency of high-oleic sunflower oil to get industrial lubricants that are more environmentally friendly and with similar characteristics than the traditional ones

28 Jul 2009

Cheaper and Better Flexible Solar Cells A Step Closer to Reality

A new class of economically viable solar power cells-cheap, flexible and easy to make-has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at NIST, where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices

28 Jul 2009

Dimmable LED Lights From Nexxus Lighting to be Featured on Energy Saving Website

Nexxus Lighting's, Array LED lamps will be the dimmable LED lamp line series chosen for addition to the Green Lighting Supply Inc energy saving website

28 Jul 2009

Greenpeace Says Hewlett-Packard Means Hazardous Products

A Greenpeace action in the US today exposed Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) continuing contribution to the toxic electronic waste crisis. The peaceful protest is in response to HP backtracking on its commitments to phase out toxic chemicals from its products by the end of this year

28 Jul 2009

Eco-materials Distribution Partnership Formed Between Metro Hardwoods and Kirei

Kirei USA LLC, producer of eco-friendly design materials, announces a new partnership with leading lumber and green building materials distributor Metro Hardwoods to stock and represent Kirei products throughout Minnesota and the Dakotas

28 Jul 2009