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The Solar Powered Lightbulb from Nokero
According to statistics, over a quarter of the world’s populationstill burns fossil fuels for light, resulting in about 190 million tonsof CO2 being emitted into the air each year. Nokero tried to reduce emissions by developing the world’s first solar lightbulb – the N100. The company has now bettered its own technology by developing the [...]
Garbage Trucks Powered by Garbage?
Using landfills to generate electricity is not a new concept for the City of Toronto. The city is now taking the energy generatingcapability of waste to a new level, by working on a garbage truck thatcan run on biogas generated from garbage. The new trucks will be equipped with a Cummins Westport ISL G engine [...]
Green Mountain Power Corporation: Powered by 5 Statewide Solar Projects
Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP) — Vermont’s second-largestutility company — has contracted Alteris Renewables to build solarenergy systems throughout the state in order to meet a company goal of10,000 panels installed in 1,000 days. The plan began with a 58-kilowatt (KW) installation at WestminsterService Center and a 4-KW system at Colchester headquarters for plug-inhybrid cars. [...]
Solar-powered Desalinisation
A team from MIT’s Field and Space Robotics Laboratory (FSRL) in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering has come up with a way to operatedesalinsation systems, typically typically large-scale installationsthat require lots of energy to operate, as portable, solar-poweredsystems that could be rapidly deployed to areas in need of potable water in the wake of disaster or [...]
Solar-Powered Trash Compactors from BigBelly Solar
BigBelly Solar, based in Newton, MA, markets and sells the world’s first trash compactor powered by solar power. Trash is compacted with no utility connection needed, therebyminimizing the number of garbage pickups necessary and reducingoperating costs by up to 80%. The average trash compactor requires a grid-based electricityconnection. With Big Belly Solar, the sun shine [...]
Solar-Powered Desalination — A Potential Solution For Water Problems?
With estimates of people without access to fresh water by 2025nearing 3.5 billion, scientists are looking to desalination as apossible solution. Even better, two solar-powered desalination prototypes were recently tested making the solution not only beneficial to peoplewithout water, but those without access to electricity as well. Desalination basically works by evaporating sea water, leaving [...]
Hydrogen-powered Nano-battery Inspired by Solar Technology
Eduard Karpov, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has received a three-year $217,000 grant from the National ScienceFoundation to develop a new battery he calls the “catalothermionicgenerator”. The battery will generate power on a flat surface, just like in a photovoltaic or solar cell, but here instead of sunlight, hydrogen oxidation [...]
PV growth powered by market-driven innovation
DuPont Electronics & Communications president David B. Miller saidthat the company expects to achieve $1 billion in revenue from salesinto the photovoltaic market in 2010 — one year ahead of schedule. The growth is supported by new market-driven innovations that improve solar module efficiency and performance, bringing costs down in line withother forms of energy [...]