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Siemens Wins Big Wind Turbine Order

Siemens Energy has been awarded an order for 70 wind turbines for the Los Vergeles wind farm in Tamaulipas, Mexico

10 Nov 2009

Environmentally Friendly Snow 'Thrower' and Alternative to Polluting Snow 'Blowers'

Structured Solutions II LLC announced the launch of their newly-designed wheeled snow shovel this fall. The Sno Wovel™ is the only non-combustion alternative snow removal device performing equal to or better than a snow blower

10 Nov 2009

Super Efficient Solar Cells From Sydney University

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10 Nov 2009

Power Supplies For Printed Electronics and Electronic Packaging to be Conference Focus

Energy storage for small devices forms by far the largest mobile energy storage market today, being much larger and faster growing than the market for heavy energy storage such as automotive and enjoying greater innovation for the future, including transparent and printed batteries

10 Nov 2009

Korea and Carbon Trust Work Together to Reduce Global Carbon Footprint

Within one year Korean products exported into the UK and around the world could be carrying the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Reduction Label

10 Nov 2009

UAB Teams Up With Partners to Seek Safe Carbon Dioxide Storage for "Greener" Power Generation

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the ...

9 Nov 2009

Energy Efficient Supercomputers Covered in Green500 List

Virginia Tech's Green500 list is getting a refresh. Since its 2007 debut, the Green500 has ranked only the energy efficiency of the world’s 500 fastest performing supercomputers. Now, the Green500 is expanding the definition of a supercomputer to include a wider spectrum of the high-end computing world with the 'Little Green500' list and opening its doors to innovation

9 Nov 2009

Landscape Rating System to Transform Sustainable Building Industry

A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the U.S. Botanic Garden today released the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings

9 Nov 2009

Technological Developments Moving Us Towards Personalised Solar Energy

New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of “personalized solar energy,” in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities

9 Nov 2009

Solar Power Pioneer Moves On To Next Generation Solar Cells

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development of the next generation of super efficient solar cells

9 Nov 2009

G20 Finance Ministers Fail to Make Agreement on Climate Change

Finance ministers of the world’s dominant economies failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change

9 Nov 2009

Laws Need Strengthening to Protect the Environment During Wars

Strengthening, enforcing and clarifying existing laws protecting environment in times of conflict could go a long way towards protecting a country's natural assets during wars, says a new report by legal experts released today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

9 Nov 2009

Truck Fuel Consumption Reduced by 7.5 Percent By Using a 'Boat Tail'

A boat tail, a tapering protrusion mounted on the rear of a truck, leads to fuel savings of 7.5 percent. This is due to dramatically-improved aerodynamics, as shown by road tests conducted by the PART (Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport) public-private partnership platform

9 Nov 2009