The struggling wind power industry of California got a much needed boost when Google Inc. announced its decision to invest $55 million in a large Mojave Desert wind farm. The investment is seen as a major step to help the state regain its number one.
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Growing plants without soil (hydroponics) has been an oft-cited phenomenon under consideration for quite sometime. Of late, a Japanese bio-medical expert, Dr. Yuichi Mori has come up with an innovative way of growing plants without soil through…
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The historic Fredericia municipality, a garrison and harbor town named after the Danish monarch Frederick III, is all set to get a sustainable revamp, at least if we go by the plans of KCAP Architects & Planners, together with advisors Ramboll and…
KCAP wins competition for sustainable development of FredericiaC Read More »
A collaborative effort from APS Energy Services (APSES) and Kyocera Solar has successfully managed to install four new solar energy systems for the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. With a combined capacity of 750kW, these systems were…
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The scenic town of Alcoy in eastern Spain has always been famous for those Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians) festivals. But now the time has also come for the town to be well known on the green side of affairs, because three of the entries of.
Three entries from Alcoy about to make their green mark this year’s Shell Eco-marathon Read More »
A new age of architecture may be due to emerge. Architects are already thinking beyond the constraints of prescribed formats just like this magnificent structure called the Edifice Sphere. Dropping the preconcieved notion of what a skyscraper should.
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The world will soon witness Abu Dhabi harvesting water from air. This may sound strange, but this is a fact soon to be realized. The farmers of Abu Dhabi are in the way of arming themselves with the technology that can draw water from dense…
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Scientists and researchers around the world have been trying to come up with a low cost solar cell that is both efficient and easy to manufacture in order to make solar energy affordable for the common people. Now, a team at the Swiss Federal…
Swiss researchers develop new CIGS solar cells with record setting efficiency Read More »
New buildings in Japan should compulsorily install solar panels for the maximum utilization of this renewable resource of energy. As the country is still battling with the aftershocks of tsunami and the worst ever nuclear disaster of Fukushima and…
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The Sun Dog Racer is all set to give a tough fight at the Annual Solar Car Challenge which is to be held at Texas in the month of July this year. The name is totally unsuggestive of the kind of vehicle, except for the fact that it is a car that…
Sun Dog Racer – Story of hand-carving a vehicle Read More »
