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Solar Cell Testing Testing Solutions From Zwick

Zwick offers a range of testing solutions for ensuring long term performance from roof mounted solar photovoltaic units

16 Aug 2009

Brazillian Leather Industry Commitment to Ending Amazon Rainforest Destruction

In a significant move in the fight against climate change, the world’s largest leather exporter and Brazil’s second-largest beef exporter, Bertin, today backed Greenpeace’s call for a moratorium on buying cattle from farms involved in Amazon deforestation with immediate effect

13 Aug 2009

Virginia Tech Reveals Their 2009 House For the Solar Decathlon

Virginia Tech's 2009 solar house team have moved their zero-energy home from the construction site to a public site and revealed its technology online. Completely powered by the sun, other sustainable features include the use of passive energy systems, radiant heating, and building materials that are from renewable and/or recyclable sources

13 Aug 2009

Where to Now For Lean, Green Energy Production

A highly efficient system for generating and distributing energy is lean, mean and green – and could be as close as the nearest farm, according to a University of Connecticut professor

13 Aug 2009

Research Grant to Assist Carbon Capture, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Fuels, Electrical Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting

DoE grant to assist with carbon capture, nuclear energy, renewable fuels, electrical energy storage and energy harvesting research

13 Aug 2009

Market For Rechargeable Batteries For Use In Electric Vehicles to Break $330 Million By 2014

Low-cost, long-life lithium batteries are seen as essential for accelerated development of alternative power vehicles, ranging from the now familiar gasoline-electric hybrids that double normal fuel economy to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that use no petroleum

13 Aug 2009

Plant Upgrade for Rockwool Insulation

Rockwool, the world’s leading manufacturer of non-combustible stone wool insulation, has made a significant investment in its South Wales production facility to improve the quality and range of products it manufactures

13 Aug 2009

Truck Tires Being Recycled into Clean and Green Marine Fenders

Maritime International Inc is introducing a new category of
marine fenders for barging facilities that is tougher than anything available on the market today and made from recycled truck tires

13 Aug 2009

Improved Nanophotonic Design Software For Making LEDs, OLEDs and Thin Film Solar Cells

Lumerical Solutions, a provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of FDTD Solutions Release 6.5.

13 Aug 2009

Research Into Climate Change and Carbon Storage Gets Major Boost

Research into minerals exploration, climate change, greenhouse gas technologies and poultry has received a major funding boost of AU$96.1 million under the latest round of the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program

12 Aug 2009

Thermablok Chosen by Cornell Students As Insulation for Silo House Entry in 2009 Solar Decathlon

Cornell University students are preparing to preview their eco-friendly "Silo House" at the New York State Fair

12 Aug 2009

National Wind Solutions Buys Biodiesel Plant

The key to green energy is the ability to create power from sources that are renewable – plant materials, natural oils, sun and wind. Now that NWND has closed the purchase of a fully operational biodiesel plant in Texas, it is ready to move toward the production of truly green and renewable bio-diesel fuel

12 Aug 2009