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Top 10 Ways to be More Energy Efficient and Green in 2008

“Going green” and “reducing your carbon footprint” are all the rage, but these trendy concepts are nothing new for the Alliance to Save Energy. That’s because you can’t be green without minimizing your energy use; and energy efficiency has always been and remains the quickest, most cost-effective way to use less energy – and the amount of pollution you produce.

23 Feb 2008

New Coating Significantly Enhances the Efficiency of Solar Energy Power

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California's Mojave Desert could power all of the United States' electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications.

23 Feb 2008

Solar Power Unit Supplies Clean Drinking Water Plus Electrical Power for Lights

WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp., developer and marketer of proprietary high-power solar systems, today shipped 12 of its Mobile MaxPure solar water and power-supply units for immediate air delivery to Baghdad.

23 Feb 2008

Paving the Way for Hydrogen Education, Research and Development

Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc., a renewable energy company that acquires and commercially advances clean electric technologies and applications, and The Center for Hydrogen Research (CHR) today unveiled the eTec Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (HICE) Silverado truck in Aiken, South Carolina.

23 Feb 2008

Catering for the Growing Concern for Carbon Dioxide Emission

As the fact of higher CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) emission threatens human health can't be ignored, worldwide serious concern has been evoked.

22 Feb 2008

Test Center for Optimization of Fuel Cell Plates

The Swedish ambassador, Stefan Noreén, today opened Morphic’s new Technology and Customer Center in Yokohama, Japan. The center will offer optimization of flow plates for fuel cells to customers in all Asian markets.

22 Feb 2008

China's Energy Consumption Almost Trebles Since 1978

The recent China's energy fact sheet released by RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) reveals that despite being the world's third largest energy producer (behind the USA and Russia), accounting for about 10.6% of the world's annual total energy production.

22 Feb 2008

Green Powder Coating Process is Kind to the Environment

Ocean State Hot Coat, a new company, is serving the region with custom powder coating of car frames, motorcycles and marine parts, and other metal items. Fast becoming the preferred choice in high quality resistant finishes, the powder coating process offers a waterproof, rustproof, dent and chip resistant finish for interior and exterior uses.

22 Feb 2008

Answering Questions About Climate Change

Answering bold questions about life and climate on Earth and other planets is the goal behind a new Space Act Agreement signed today between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector in a ceremony in the Miller Senate Building, Presidential Conference Center West at the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis.

21 Feb 2008

Green Earth Technologies Forms GET Manufacturing

Green Earth Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of environmentally friendly consumer products, today formed GET Manufacturing Inc., a Detroit-based wholly owned subsidiary, that will manufacture, package and distribute the company’s “G”-branded automotive appearance and performance products.

21 Feb 2008

Presentation Outlining Company’s Solar Energy Technologies

Global Warming Solutions, Inc. – a developer of technologies aimed at mitigating the effects of global warming – today released a twenty-four page presentation outlining the Company’s Solar Energy Technologies.

21 Feb 2008

APS Announces Plans for Construction of 280MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant

Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) today announced plans for one of the world's largest solar facilities - a 280-megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant to be built 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, near Gila Bend, Ariz.

21 Feb 2008

Project to Offer Reductions in Energy Consumption and Costs

Concordia Homes, one of the southwest’s leading homebuilders, today announced the launch of Sommerset Community, the first solar-powered residential development in Nevada to feature GE ecomagination-certified solar products, as a standard on every home.

21 Feb 2008

World Wildlife Fund Named to Top 12 Green IT List

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been named as the only environmental group and only non-profit organization in Computerworld Magazine’s “Top Green-IT Companies for 2008”.

21 Feb 2008

The Future of Energy Storage - ZESS

ZBB Energy Corporation today announced that it has introduced the commercial product platform ZESS, the Zinc Energy Storage System. The announcement came at the CleanEquity Monaco 2008 Emerging Environmental Technology Conference.

21 Feb 2008