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In 2008, Formula Zero a race between hydrogen-powered cars built by six competing universities tried to show that sustainable energy needn be faced po,

F1 cars have used hybrid tech in the form of kinetic energy recovery systems, or KERS, since the 2009 season.

In this case, the car uses a type of advanced cellulosic 85%ethanol renewable fuel from woody biomass.

With 1. 2 billion people in the world lacking access to electricity, a simple potato could be the answeror so the researchers thought. e thought organisations would be interested,

Butanol can be produced by bacteria in biomass and if an economically efficient method can be found to industrialise that process then your flight of the future could literally be fuelled by alcohol.

But the rise in wind farms has unintended its own effects. Air traffic control systems are being interfered with, both offshore and across moors and hills.

In places such as Scotland, where the projections for wind farms are amongst the densest in the world,

They have backups for everything#water, electricity and food. With no reliable public transport available, Genpact provides cabs to take over 10,000 employees back home.

and can work for 12 hours without electricity.##Bluetooth can also provide new ways of communicating in rural settings where internet access is unavailable or out of reach for the poor.

He also developed Com-Me, a collection of hardware and software components to help people with limited access to electricity

and be topped up with electricity that is generated more efficiently in a centralised power station, or even by renewable sources.

And as they become one of the largest consumers of electricity people own the network needs to be able to keep up to reduce the risk of power cuts

Electricity is fed currently over cables to homes and offices in one direction, but increasingly there is the ability to send back information the other way,

Smart electricity meters are already being installed in many parts of the world which can give a real time data feed of how much power is being consumed.

and stored in a fuel cell that generates electricity. The catalysts are cheap, earth-abundant materials and form by self-assembly,

says Jim Lynch, Director of Green Tech at Techsoup Global. ith the growth of internet and electricity in Africa,

But, there are practical challenges. he biggest challenge is electricity, says Tooley. In off-grid areas with low power,

Solar panels on the structure top will generate power. Such concepts allow us to see bridges in new ways not just as a method of crossing natural barriers,

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Meantime the hurricane forcing the closure of a nuclear power plant this morning in Louisiana as well. Entergy Corporation saying it shut down of its plants in Colona (ph) Louisiana about 20 miles west of New orleans as a precaution.

I was surprised to see solar panels and water heaters sprouting from government buildings hospitals police stations bus shelters as well as thousands of gaily colored private homes throughout the Caribbean island.

Conventional electricity prices in the Caribbean are more than four times what we pay in the U s. due in part to high shipping costs for the Venezuelan crude that fuels the region power plants.

U s. pays for itself in lower electricity bills in less than two years. It is not just consumers who are noticing

Industries like the island only desalinization plant are installing large photovoltaic arrays to help defray their own electricity costs.

which employs the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow sea waters to generate electricity.

The bottom line is that alternative energies already cost a lot less (when their hidden costs are factored in) than conventionally produced power.

which favors a dirty and dangerous technology of the past over the clean energy future which is already here.

#U s. Guarantees $230 Million Loan For Construction of Latin america Largest Solar plant A large solar power plant is coming to Chile Atacama desert

The loan guarantee partly arises from President Barack Obama desire to work with Chile on expanding the clean energy futures for both nations. ee both very interested in energy

and how we can transition to a clean energy economyobama told The Associated press. nd wel be announcing some collaborations including the facilitation of a construction of a major solar plant inside of Chile that can help meet their energy needs. bama spent time with Chilean President

Mosaic has built a product that enables everyone to participate in transitioning the country to 100%clean energy.

The Southern Alliance for Clean energy will use Mosaic Places to take institutions solar across the Southeast United states. REVERB will be using Mosaic Places to help musicians

He is also chairman of Solarcity, which he said can helpprovide solar energy for the national network of Tesla EV chargers his company is creating e

#Generating Electricity While Remaining See-through New Energy technologies Inc. NENE), developer of see-through Solarwindowt coatings, capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics,

today announced that its technology has set a new record for generating electricity while remaining see-through with over 50%greater power than prior attempts publicized by others.

Using today certified power-production data, Company engineers estimate that a Solarwindowt installation on a fifty (50) story commercial building located in Florida could generate enough electricity to power at least 100 homes

while eliminating the equivalent carbon emissions produced by vehicles driving approximately 2, 750,000 miles per year. Additional total power production and carbon offset estimates for skyscraper

Inc. e are engineering our see-through Solarwindowt products to generate sustainable electricity, and be aesthetically attractive,

NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company Solarwindowt technology for generating electricity on glass windows.

experimental lab device to a first-of-its-kind, see-through glass window capable of generating electricity.

which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.

generating electricity using natural and artificial light conditions and even shaded areas. Solarwindow#uses organic materials,

Charger for Tablets and Phones Combine Efficient Green energy with Appealing Design for Unique Product (Currentmess LLC;

and an efficient solar panel which lets it users charge smartphones, and even tablets, on the go. Featuring a solar panel the size of an ipad,

the Solartab lets its users charge any mobile device using green, sun-fueled energy. And even more impressively, ipad enthusiasts can charge their beloved touch-screen gadget even

Forward-thinking corporations are currently investing heavily in green energy alternatives, and Google alone have made recently wind

they not only increased the solar panel size way beyond what youl find on the average portable solar charger on the market today,

but also works as a stand for the solar panel, which lets users angle the solar panel in three different positions.

After adjusting the angle to the sun current position, all that left to do is plug in any smartphone

Making green energy truly accessible to design-conscious, young people with an active lifestyle, it no wonder that the Solartab team have struck crowdfunding gold on kickstarter. com. The Solartab Kickstarter campaign is available until April 30 on https://www. kickstarter. com/projects/solartab/solartab-the-premium-solar-charger

#See-through Solarwindow#Capable of Generating Electricity on Glass Columbia, Md. and NEW YORK New Energy technologies Inc.,developer of see-through Solarwindow#coatings,

capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics, today made public never-before-seen images of the Company'#s largest area, high-performance Solarwindow#arrays.

NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company#s Solarwindow#technology for generating electricity on glass windows.

its development of electricity-generating windows for skyscrapers. Engineers envision replacing today#s passive glass windows with New Energy#s electricity-generating Solarwindow#systems on all four sides of tall towers.

Such installations could contribute to the goal of self-powered skyscrapers. The prospect of applying Solarwindow#to all four sides of a building provides a significant advantage over conventional photovoltaic solar-power systems.

Solarwindow#also generates electricity from both natural and artificial light sources such as fluorescent light emitting diodes (LED),

*Designed to generate electricity on glass, enhancing the performance of today#s insulated commercial windows;*

*Able to generate significant electricity from both natural and artificial light;**Does not require expensive high-temperature or high-vacuum production techniques inherent to conventional solar;*

and achieve significant milestones with size, electrical power, and color#some of the most important features to developing viable products.#

glass window capable of generating electricity. Today, the technology is the subject of forty-two (42) patent filings,

which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.

generating electricity using natural and artificial light conditions and even shaded areas. Solarwindow#uses organic materials,

#Top 10 States for Clean energy Job Announcements Top 10 States for Clean energy Job Announcements Last Year:

California, Texas, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, New york, Missouri WASHINGTON (March 12, 2014) More than 78,600 clean energy and clean transportation jobs were announced in 2013 at 260

This is the second full year that E2 has tracked clean energy and clean transportation job announcements. Over the past two years combined, E2 has tracked more than 500 announcements that could create more than 186,500 jobs.

When we invest in clean energy and clean transportation, we put people to work in every corner of the country.

Whether it a new wind farm in Iowa an energy efficiency retrofit in Massachusetts, or a utility-scale solar array in Nevada, these projects require American ingenuity and labor.

The sector is helping stimulate our economy, said E2 Executive director Judith Albert. Last year job announcements were about 30 percent lower than in 2012.

clean energy job growth also faced economic headwinds in 2013. These headwinds came from the continued low cost of natural gas,

I see a strong need for long-term policies that can stimulate private investment in clean energy and energy efficiency.

Here a closer look at some clean energy and clean transportation announcements in 2013:**In California, the California Ethanol and Power Project will produce 66 million gallons of ethanol annually from sugar cane and sweet sorghum.

*In New jersey, Trinity Solar LLC installed solar panels at housing units at Joint Military Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County,

Clean energy is an increasingly common presence on military bases nationwide. Looking ahead, clean energy and clean transportation job growth could see an uptick in 2014

if Congress reinstates critical tax policies such as the wind industry production tax credit (PTC) and several energy efficiency tax incentives.

Congress let these tax incentives expire at the end of 2013. Clean energy jobs also could benefit from the rollout of the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants

as well as from other elements of President Obama climate change initiative. CONTACT: Ailis Wolf at (703) 276-3265, aawolf@hastingsgroup. com;

#GE Makes A Wind turbine Especially For Japan Generous solar power feed in tariffs have driven a boom in installations in the last year

what it calls the. 85-103 wind turbine for Japan. That right Japan gets its own wind turbine.

GE says the 2. 85-103 comes with enhanced tower engineered for Japanese environmental conditions including seismic and extreme wind events as required by Japanese construction and building codes.

image via GE) What is it about Japan that it requires a specially designed wind turbine?

GE 2. 85-103 wind turbine is engineered specifically for Japanese environmental conditions and is able to withstand higher turbulence areas typhoon class extreme wind speeds

plug-in hybrid electric buses that use rechargeable batteries to run on both electricity and diesel, battery electric buses that do not use any diesel fuel

Benefits of commuting on electricity Though electric buses are not newhe first was introduced in Berlin in 1882lder models frequently required wires to hang over each bus route, marking bus paths through city streets.

Volvo claims its plug-in hybrid buses can operate on electricity alone more than two-thirds of the time,

Moreover, as Ie previously mentioned, driving on electricity is compared cheaper to driving on oil. The expected operating cost-per-mile of an electric bus in New york is $0. 20 to $0. 30 cents,

No wonder why companies like Volvo and BYD are beginning to take advantage of the many reasons why cities are shifting bus fleets to rely on electricity instead of diesel.

(and get involved yourself) by discovering why driving on electricity is a part of the UCS plan to alf the Oil.

and less-polluting domestic clean energy infrastructure. Notably, in 2013, the state of New york set the foundation for a $1 billion state green bank to support private investment in New york clean energy economy.

In December 2013, Gov. Cuomo announced an initial capitalization of $210 million to fund the bank launch in early 2014.

At the same time, new clean energy technologies are distinctly ready to meet this challenge, but bringing these technologies to scaled deployment across the economy is contingent on having ready access to capital and strong market structures to support new investment.

the clean energy sector has demonstrated dynamic growth. U s. solar power capacity, for instance, recently surpassed 10 gigawatts as the price of solar panels has fallen some 75 percent during the past five years

and continues to drop. Furthermore, America largest source of new electrical capacity in 2012 came from wind power,

and better manage financial risk is a bright spot in advancing the development of a clean energy economy powered by a modernized and climate-resilient electricity infrastructure.

one of the primary hurdles to bringing new clean energy technology to market remains the availability of the affordable capital needed to move great ideas from the research

These financial institutions are some of the most powerful tools for mobilizing new sources of public and private capital into emerging and necessary clean energy projects.

and predictability to investors by ensuring reliable access to efficiently priced and long-term sources of credit to finance publically beneficial, clean energy infrastructure.

and systematically marshal public credit supports to build emerging clean energy markets. In the United states the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority is building a strong track record of success,

while Hawaii, Massachusetts, and California are also establishing similar clean energy financing entities. These emerging green banks also draw on the experiences of infrastructure banks employed in California, Puerto rico, British columbia,

and elsewhere to finance the construction of bridges, roads, transit, and other public facilities. Current state of clean energy financing programs Connecticut The New york Green Bank will join the Connecticut Clean energy Finance and Investment Authority,

or CEFIA, in paving the way for the successful implementation of state green banks and public,

state-level, clean energy financing. Established in 2011, CEFIA featured an initial capitalization of $48 million to provide broad credit support to Connecticut clean energy projects and companies.

CEFIA supports the development of Connecticut clean energy industry through a combination of grants, loans, and other credit supports,

as well as educational programs for businesses and homeowners. These programs include lending for residential solar electricity and hot-water systems,

deep energy efficiency retrofit loans through the Property Assessed Clean energy, or PACE, program for commercial and multifamily buildings,

and a competitive grant program for micro grids. In 2013 CEFIA used $40 million to attract more than $180 million of private investment f

This investment supported almost 30 megawats of new clean energy and savings of 9, 000 MMBTU of energy per year.

and businesses to invest in solar panels and other clean energy projects. The loans, which are designed to offset the upfront cost of photovoltaic systems,

The California Alternative energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, orcaeatfa, and the California Pollution control Financing Authority, or CPCFA.

These programs have issued more than $13 billion in tax-exempt bonds to finance low-cost loans for energy-efficiency improvements and tax incentives for clean energy manufacturing.

Such a bank would further augment California ambitious support for a robust clean energy industry and would represent an efficient use of funds already designated to reduce California emissions.

Massachusetts In 2009, Massachusetts established the Massachusetts Clean energy Center, or Masscec, which invests in early stage clean energy companies and renewable energy projects.

Masscecalso provides financing tools to municipalities, homeowners, and businesses in the form of loans, rebates, and grants.

Masscec programs have helped support the growth of Massachusetts clean energy industry, with an 11.8 percent increase in clean energy jobs from 2012 to 2013.

These financial institutions can specifically target some of the most significant and persistent market barriers that have served to slow the development and deployment of new clean energy technologies.

By doing so, states can significantly improve the function and structure of their clean energy markets.

Currently, the volume and project size of clean energy transactions are often too small and decentralized to attract private capital efficiently into the market.

decreasing investment and establishing a vicious cycle that suppresses clean energy deployment. By serving as a warehouse for energy-efficiency and renewable energy loansnd by providing a clear point of entry into the market for customers

Credit enhancement A key principle of green banks is that they use public dollars strategically to reduce perceived risks for private investors in undertaking investments in clean energy projects.

and origination of specific clean energy projects and the scaled institutional investment in pooled financial products. The current inability of project developers to efficiently access institutional capital in the secondary market limits the liquidity of investments

green banks will greatly support the development of clean energy projects across states and will positively impact the cost of clean energy development by offering real consumer protection for ratepayers,

while expanding the deployment of renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects. A key design principle of any proposed green bank is that it is structured to increase private-sector participation in the market for clean energy project financing.

This will gradually reduce the need for public subsidy as the market achieves maturity and commercial scale.

Through green banks, these strategies can be employed to meet the specific challenges of clean energy deployment and market transformation.

and 25 states haveeers mechanisms to promote clean energy development. Green banks can act as powerful accelerants of these important policies by facilitating the availability of the capital necessary to finance the costs of meeting these goals

otherwise be unavailable for clean energy investments. Furthermore because green banks are designed to recycle the proceeds from these transactions,

accelerating the maturation of state clean energy markets, and helping the nation as a whole move toward a transformed, clean energy economy.

Conclusion With the initial capitalization of the New york Green Bank, New york has launched a dynamic tool that,

which will continue to invest in clean energy projects and promote overall economic growth long after the Obama administration tenure.

as well as sound energy policy, and it will benefit New york ratepayers and taxpayers as it improves environmental and community health.

and expanding clean energy markets that meet the needs of a vibrant and growing economy. As clean energy technologies continue to demonstrate their growing competitiveness

they will require access to sufficient streams of affordable capital for successful commercialization. This trend is already underway through new investments in public solar companiesand auto companiesrenewed focus on clean technologies.

As our country faces the growing danger of extreme weather and climate change, it is all too clear that investment in state of the-art-the art clean energy infrastructure is essential for the continued strength of the U s. economy.

Before every contraction, the potential energy trapped in chemical bonds within cardiac muscle cells is released and converted into the mechanical power of the heartbeat.

Theye developed a superthin device that can be attached to an organ to generate electricity from its movements.

The tiny device is already within the range of generating enough electricity to power a pacemaker on its own,

it generates electrical energy from the movement. Because organ movements occur as pulses, the team had to include energy storage in their creation

so that electricity could be delivered continually. They accomplished this by building in a tiny chip-scale

The team found through testing that their system could deliver 0. 2 microwatts per square centimeter of stable electricity over 20 million cycles.

Their system converts mechanical to electrical energy at about two percent efficiency, a number that Rogers says is need based on the not to interfere with the target organ natural operation.

automatically recovering energy that delivered to the batteries as electricity. Unique to the ELR extended range electric vehicle, Regen on Demand also allows a driver to instantaneously engage

This not only creates electricity on demand, but enhances driving dynamics by inducing regen drag that allows decelerating before turns and in other circumstances,

Network Rail said that at peak output the system could provide as much as half the station electricity needs

For comparison utility-scale solar arrays in the sun-drenched U s. Southwest deliver more than 25 percent capacity factors p

#MIT Turns Up The Heat On Solar PV You might think that fewer steps in the process of turning sunlight into electricity would be the most efficient way to go.

, and a photovoltaic cell. image via MIT/John Freidah) Here how MIT outlines the development:(T) he team inserted a two-layer absorber-emitter device made of novel materials including carbon nanotubes and photonic crystals between the sunlight and the PV cell.

ensuring that most of the energy collected by the absorber is turned then into electricity. Now, the MIT device is only at about 3. 2 percent efficiency a big jump over the less than 1 percent STPV devices that have been seen before

on the idea that storing heat is a less tricky business than storing electricity. By the way, this isn the first foray into thermophotovoltaics at MIT that wee reported on.

The PH&EV Research center At ITS-Davis collaborates closely with California utilities, the Electric power Research Institute, automakers,

and Sustainable energy Production Sheerwind announced their newest innovation as part of their Industry changing INVELOX technology.

or series and increases the electrical power output for a single tower. Sheerwind INVELOX#system is a large funnel that captures, concentrates,

and size issues by combining the best traditional wind technologies with a unique wind delivery system that produces more efficient and powerful wind generation machines.

for the first time in wind industry history three turbines may run in series in a single tower to produce more energy.

and produces water and electricity (plus a little ash). I have visited lots of similar sites, like power plants and paper mills,

and their frequent lack of adequate drinking water and electrical power. Waste piles up in latrines or in open fields

The Omniprocessor, designed by Seattle-area engineering firm Janicki Bioenergy, reinvents the sewage treatment plant. In the Omniprocessor, sewer sludge is fed into tubes

which creates steam to fuel a steam engine that drives an electricity-producing generator. That energy in turn fuels the machine

Sewersludgethe Omniprocessor turns sewage into water and electricity. Photo credit: Gatesnotes. com Those entrepreneurs would make money from the sludge they remove from the environment,

and the water and electricity they create. Later this year, Janicki will set up the first Omniprocessor in the field in Dakar,

#Wind turbine Trees Generate Renewable energy for Urban Settings French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière decided to do something about that.

each producing a small amount of electrical power. Because the leaves are small and light, they are set in motion by winds as light as 4. 4 miles per hour,

the company boasts. he distinctive yet human-scale design promises to reconcile the consumer with his means of generating electricity.

and contribute to electricity consumption and CO2 EMISSIONS, while battery-powered ones only last as long as their battery life.

#Developing high-efficiency lasers to manufacture solar panels As the world continues its efforts to combat climate change

Solar panels are able to function because they have intricate patterns of tiny channels engraved into their surface,

high-tech materials now being developed for solar panels. In place of conventional solar panels measuring up to 5 millimetres in thickness,

the modern PV industry is looking to use new types of lightweight and flexible materials to construct solar panels measured in micrometres (thousandths of a millimetre).

With such materials, the scribing process must be controlled with a high degree of accuracy since it is vital that it penetrates only one layer of the thin solar cell film at a time.

PCF lasers provide this accuracy. Moreover, since PCF lasers operate with ultra-short pulse rates,

the flexibility means that solar panels can be wrapped onto any suitable structure, flat or curved. The results of the ALPINE team work, demonstrating the capability of PCF lasers to transform existing scribing technology and opening the way to rapid growth in the high-volume production of flexible,

thin-film solar cells, are hard to overestimate. In the words of Professor Selleri: echanical scribing will disappear very quickly from the PV industry,

and enhance the efficient use of resources like water electricity and raw materials. Gearing up for the future Through a number of case studies the team addressed specific problems affecting the milling grinding and drilling of different metals.

Combined, commercial refrigerator/freezers like these are estimated to consume 85 TWH (terawatt hours) of electricity every year.

That is roughly equivalent to the total yearly output of eight or nine late-generation nuclear power plants. This places a huge burden on power grids and the environment

they are at the core of the electric generators used in all wind generators. The project coordinated by The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, UK has 7 participants from 4 countries i

#New smart robots to improve inspection of nuclear plants Nuclear power accounts for one sixth of the European union (EU)' s energy consumption,

powered by a solar cell located on the flat top of the container. A fibre-optic grid monitors any deformations in the bag (signs of tearing

but ew partners are always welcome These partnerships could see Light-Rolls being involved in a myriad of sectors including automotive and building lighting applications, flexible solar cells and batteries and even consumer products and games.

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