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sian and developing market cities will not achieve the levels of car motorisation enjoyed in the West Energy problem Another way to examine the issue is to look at the number of households without a car.

when the amount of energy used is measured. In fact, everything seems better than driving. A long distance train uses 1, 668 BTU per person mile.

BTU, or British thermal unit, per person mile is a measure of energy used to move a person a mile.

when the energy per person mile was about twice as much for flying than for driving.

explains Sivak. o you are spreading the energy across fewer people in a car. To match the emissions levels of flying,

Promises of a green racing revolution have yet to get off the grid, though. Last year, a fuel cell car was due to race in the prestigious Le Mans 24-hour race in France in June

but had to pull out at the last minute due to technical problems. 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,

and while the zero-emissions race is no longer going, it boosted the idea of a cleaner, greener brand of motorsports.

which uses it to recapture energy usually lost when braking, and then use it for acceleration.

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

Power boost Regenerative energy recovery is also at play in the vehicle I was allowed to throw around a test track;

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

energy is recovered and stored in a battery. When an added burst of speed is needed, a paddle behind the steering wheel provides a boost using that stored energy. n racing,

if youe not going to make it faster, or more exciting, why even do it? asks Forrest Jehlik from the Argonne National Laboratory, part of the US Department of energy, outside Chicago,

where I test-driving the car. ut if you can do that, and at the same time remove yourself from the environmental debate, it a win for everybody.

greener and much quieter motor racing may be closer to the starting grid than you might think y

says that the application of space science technology and research to"basic necessities#of life#health education, energy, food security,

#Potato power: the spuds that could light the world Mashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes.

researcher Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of otato powerto deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids.

but ingenious trick to make potatoes particularly good at producing energy. single potato can power enough LED lamps for a room for 40 days,

Still, Rabinowitch and his team have discovered that actually launching potato power in the real world is much more complex than it first appears.

to demonstrate how batteries work. To make a battery from organic material, all you need is two metals an anode,

which is the negative electrode, such as zinc, and a cathode, the positively charged electrode, such as copper.

energy is released. This was discovered by Luigi Galvani in 1780 when he connected two metals to the legs of a frog,

Yet to the surprise of Rabinowitch, no one had studied scientifically spuds as an energy source. So in 2010, he decided to give it a try,

which allows us to understand how much energy was lost by heat. They found that by simply boiling the potatoes for eight minutes

reducing resistance and allowing for freer movement of electronsthus producing more energy. They also increased the energy output by slicing the potato into four or five pieces,

each sandwiched by a copper and zinc plate, to make a series. e found we could improve the output 10 times,

because the cost of energy drops down, says Goldberg. t low voltage energy, says Rabinowitch,

ut enough to construct a battery that could charge mobile phones or laptops in places where there is no grid,

no power connection. Their cost analyses suggested that a single boiled potato battery with zinc and copper electrodes generates portable energy at an estimated $9 per kilowatt hour,

which is 50-fold cheaper than a typical 1. 5 volt AA alkaline cell or D cell battery,

which can cost $494 per kilowatt hour. It also an estimated six times cheaper than standard kerosene lamps used in the developing world.

Which raises an important question why isn the potato battery already a roaring success? In 2010, the world produced a staggering 324,181, 889 tonnes of potatoes.

They are the world number one non-grain crop, in 130 countries, and a hefty source of starch for billions around the world.

They are cheap, store easily, and last for a long time. 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,

says Rabinowitch. e thought politicians in India would give them out with their names inscribed on them.

They cost less than a dollar. Yet three years on since their experiment why haven governments, companies or organisations embraced potato batteries?

he simple answer is they don even know about it, reasons Rabinowitch. But it may be complicated more than that.

First, there the issue of using a food for energy. Olivier Dubois, senior natural resources officer at the United nations Food and agriculture organisation (FAO),

says that using food for energy like sugar cane for biofuels must avoid depleting food stocks and competing with farmers. ou first need to look at:

The potatoes that don make it to the market could easily be turned into batteries. Pithy answer Yet in Sri lanka

and the best battery performance was obtained by chopping the plantain pith after boiling. With the boiled piths, they found they could power a single LED for more than 500 hours,

Despite all this, some are sceptical of the feasibility of potato power. n reality, the potato battery is essentially like a regular battery you buy at the store,

says Derek Lovley at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. t just using a different matrix.

While the potato helps to prevent energy being lost to heat, it is not the source of the energy that actually extracted via the corrosion of the zinc. t sacrificial the metal is degrading over time,

says Lovley. This means you have to replace the zinc and of course the potato or plantain pith over time.

potatoes are perhaps less desirable as an energy source. Gaurav Manchanda, founder of One Degree Solar,

Basically, some people might not want to show off their potato battery to impress a neighbor. Still, it cannot be denied that the potato battery idea works

and it appears cheap. Advocates of potato power will no doubt continue to keep chipping away e

#How X-ray vision will fuel better car engines When particle accelerators hit the headlines, it's usually

Powell says their presence was identified unknown until recently using this high-energy X-ray imaging technique. hat was something interesting we discovered just a few months ago,

and emails as long as batteries lasted desperately hoping for rescue, or information on a passage to safety.

like drinking water and energy but these entrepreneurs are building a different economy. audi is the largest consumer of Youtube content per capita in the world,

But even with Google glass at the ready to tell us our favourite bar is a 400-calorie walk away,

and the battery level. Cars with GPS navigation systems can also collect detailed information about routes.

and a reviewer from the New york times. On a test drive, the reviewer claimed he ran out of battery power,

Or more specifically, they are keeping their battery topped up before range anxiety sets in.

Certainly, manufacturers have been trying to allay the fears of nervous drivers with blinking battery lights by investing in faster charging stations at more convenient locations.#

The fast chargers are like"drinking through a very thick straw#for batteries, says Gottfried."You can go from zero to full in less than a half an hour,

#if I need to sit for 15 minutes to top off my battery at a quick charge station, that's cool,

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.

The movement of the turbine blades creates, essentially, a phantom signal that even modern radars find hard to differentiate from a real moving aircraft.

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.

The energy in Gurgaon is palpable, #Bhasin says.""As in Silicon valley, these things tend to work on themselves and regenerate.

"We've put in all this energy and time. But we'd love to see it leave!#

#Taiwan first transformed itself from a labour-intensive economy to a hi-tech powerhouse during the 1980s.

#It's this kind of energy that leads people like Mr Lin to believe Taiwan can make the transition to an innovation-based economy."

and construction methods, says the team, such as electrolytes that increase the energy density of batteries. Not to mention competitions like the World Solar Challenge,

such as the electricity grid or financial systems. Some cyber attacks use malware (malicious software) to gain access to enemy systems

and as a result has lower cost and lower power consumption.##These costs have dropped further, in some cases significantly, thanks to recent advances.

As a result, machines using Bluetooth that previously ran for a few months on a coin cell battery,

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

designed to allow off-grid communities to share and store information in a variety of formats.

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

The Electric vehicle#Smart grid Interoperability Center aims to ease the potential strain on our resources by developing common standards

and charging stations work in unison with the electric grid. It's a collaboration between the US Department of energy and the European commission's Joint Research Centre,

#What also needs to be seamless is energy management.""If you live in a community where everyone,

Fortunately there is technology available that can help#the smart grid. 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, on how much is being used, by what,

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.

you don't need a lot of energy.##The centre is working on standardised devices that will be able to function with each other,

and keep the driver informed of energy resources and demands without impacting the grid negatively.""It's going to take a lot of electric vehicles, probably millions,

to influence the national grid, #says Hardy.""But it only takes a handful to impact your local, neighbourhood transformer.#

as this means a lower input of energy can create a big change in temperature,

spoiler alert high-energy wafers secretly made of human corpses were on the menu. Less intellectually nourishing sci-fi food staples include the entire meal in a pill (or dollop or slab of gunk

if you could draw energy from almost unlimited sources found in nature#water and light.

That's one possibility if Harvard professor Daniel Nocera's idea for a device that can harness and store energy from the Sun comes to fruition.

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

new laptops won let you remove batteries, and the whole lifecycle of technology is becoming shorter,

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

Energy challenge International organisations, like World Computer Exchange and Techsoup Global, facilitate the refurbishing, but Neverware Juicebox could also play a new,

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

or even urban areas with unreliable power sources, the Juicebox which as the name might suggest,

requires a lot of energy would have a hard time. Jonathan Hefter agrees, but believes that down the road,

such as breaking down certain foods into energy and useful nutrients, suppressing harmful microbes, preventing allergies and assisting the immune system in a number of other ways.

For example, information spreading happens quite differently on a grid (like the street network of Manhattan,

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,

) HIV-1 virus. The process acts much like the jumper cables attached to a live battery recharging a dead one to get it running again,

and nutrient and energy-sensing pathways, but how Myc engages those mechanisms is still not clear.

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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.

The two others remain in operation at this point. Entergy saying the plant which is designed to sustain winds up to 200 miles an hour

if it had to will be powered up after the storm passes. So that's where we are.

But overall somewhat mixed trading as far as the energy prices are concerned. Getting back to those gas prices analysts are predicting that we could see a ten-cent spike of gasoline prices as we see the effects of the storm play out depending on how drastic the supply cut actually is from the region

An on-site Olympic-sized swimming pool and on-site dental services are two of the perks Oklahoma city gas producer Chesapeake Energy offers its employees.

Emerging competition is coming from nontraditional sectors such as energy utilities, and mining, and it especially heavy from healthcare, pharma,

The devices also offer privacy for groups who want to communicate off the grid he said.

shelters and antiaircraft batteries were targeted in the five camps. PKK headquarters located on Qandil Mountains in Northern Iraq were targeted reportedly in the attacks as well.

At which point we hear renewed calls for energy independence. This is the message that I was hearing

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.

For Barbadian the cost savings from solar are becoming too obvious to miss. A thermal water heater which retails for $2300.

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.

and solar into the grid while still maintaining the stability of the system that need to be worked Out in an address marking the United nations Environment Program (UNEP) World Environment Day in Bridgetown Independence Square in June Barbados Prime minister

Freundel Stuart pledged that the island nation would produce 29 percent of its energy from renewables by the end of the next decade.

The Barbados government is also looking into harnessing the energy of the tides as well as introducing ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) a technology

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

which includes recommendations on how to make the island agriculture fisheries transportation and energy systems more sustainable.

The challenges of integrating wind and solar energy into the grid are cited often by the utility

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

That this reality is reflected not yet in the real world price for energy is the fault of a political system

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

The International Finance Corp. also approved a $60 million loan for Luz del Norte. he Latin american region has need a growing for innovative and efficient energy solutions right nowsaid Tim Rebhorn senior vice 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

The company is almost ready to build a $5 billion igafactoryto produce enough lithium-ion batteries to drive down EV prices.

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

Carnival Corporation system combines two established technologies that have been used successfully in shore applications like power plants

#Hydronano Gas that safely & effectively neutralizes carbon fuel pollution emissions Hydro Infra Technologies (HIT) is based a Stockholm clean tech company that has developed an innovative approach to neutralizing carbon fuel emissions from power plants

and is being invited by various government ministries around the world to provide solutions to the critical levels of pollution emissions being generated by power plants and other industries.

Customers across a number of industries including restaurants, retail, energy, and military have expressed their interest

#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

New Energy review of prevailing published literature and scientific reports confirmed that Solarwindowt modules outperform publicized devices of comparable architecture, size,

New Energy latest high-performance Solarwindowt module measures 36 in (232 square centimeters or cm2. ee long been confident that our Solarwindowt modules are more power efficient and larger than any other like-technology.

Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New Energy technologies, Inc. e are engineering our see-through Solarwindowt products to generate sustainable electricity,

and be aesthetically attractive, while being developed at a cost which makes economic sense to our customers,

explained Dr. Scott Hammond, Principal Scientist at New Energy technologies, Inc. ur record-breaking Solarwindowt module is the result of various methods of fabrication and materials,

The Company high-performance, large-area Solarwindowt has been fabricated through the efforts of New Energy Principal Scientist

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.

The federal government estimates that by catalyzing private sector investments in commercial and industrial building energy upgrades,

reducing energy costs for American businesses by nearly $40 billion. About New Energy technologies, Inc. New Energy technologies, Inc.,together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies.

Among the Company#s technologies under development is:**Solarwindow#technologies, which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.

Unlike conventional systems, Solarwindow#can be applied to all four sides of tall towers, generating electricity using natural

and artificial light conditions and even shaded areas. Solarwindow#uses organic materials, which are dissolved into liquid, ideal for low-cost high-output manufacturing.

New Energy#s Solarwindow#is the subject of 42 patent applications. Through established relationships with universities, research institutions,

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

while theye listening to their favorite summer tune, or browsing the Internet. e wanted to create a really powerful charger that people would actually want to use,

we believe it the future of power consumption! The enthusiastic young team may very well be on to something.

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

keeping energy-hungry smartphones or tablets going all day at the beach, music festivals or picnics in the park is easier than ever.

The smart-looking device is equipped also with a high capacity internal battery, which means you can store solar power for later

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.

These Solarwindow#arrays measure over 232 cm2,#a significant achievement for size, improving upon New Energy#s previous achievements at the U s. Department of energy#s National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL),

and unparalleled manufacturability,#explained Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New Energy technologies, Inc. Today#s Solarwindow#array is over 35%larger than the Company#s previously-fabricated, 170 cm2 working module achievement.

The Company#s latest high-performance, large-area Solarwindow#has been fabricated through the efforts of New Energy#s Principal Scientist, Dr. Scott Hammond, in collaboration with NREL Researchers, particularly Dr. Maikel

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.

New Energy#s Solarwindow#is capable of operating in both direct, diffuse, and shaded sunlight conditions;

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

In comparison to conventional crystalline and thin-film PV technologies, New Energy#s Solarwindow#has numerous advantages:*

*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;*

which have allowed our joint New Energy-NREL team to successfully overcome technical hurdles and achieve significant milestones with size, electrical power,

and color#some of the most important features to developing viable products.##Solarwindow#researchers have developed rapidly the Company#s technology from its early beginnings as a tiny, experimental lab device to a first-of-its-kind, spray-on, see-through,

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

The federal government estimates the U s. can save $40 billion annually by reducing energy use in commercial buildings by 20 percent by 2020.

About New Energy technologies Inc. New Energy technologies, Inc.,together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies.

Among the Company#s technologies under development include: Solarwindow#technologies, which generates electricity on see-through glass and flexible plastics with colored tints popular to skyscraper glass.

Unlike conventional systems, Solarwindow#can be applied to all four sides of tall towers, generating electricity using natural

and artificial light conditions and even shaded areas. Solarwindow#uses organic materials, which are dissolved into liquid, ideal for low-cost high-output manufacturing.

New Energy#s Solarwindow#is the subject of 42 patent applications. Through established relationships with universities, research institutions,

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