13-Year Revolutionizes Solar Technology By Strolling Through The Woods

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Companies that spend billions of euros in R & D to develop new and better versions of solar cells have had to keep a poker face when they learned of the discovery of Aidan Dwyer. This little 13 year old genius has come with an idea that can improve between 20 and 50% the effectiveness [...]

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What is Green Energy and its benefits for the environment. In recent times, consumers have been bombarded with campaigns about green energy. With this it seems convenient to clear up some issues about it in benefit of consumers and the renewable energies intended to be developed. In the first place, it is accurate to point [...]

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Poland Gives Green Light to Massive Fracking Efforts

There is perhaps no more controversial energy source after nuclear than “hydraulic fracturing,” or “fracking,” of subterranean shale deposits containing pockets of natural gas. While the process can liberate previously unusable sources of natural gas, political, environmental and scientific concerns have risen along with production, as evidence mounts that fracking is responsible for everything from [...]

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UNAM Concentrated Solar Laboratory

On March 18, 2010, the day of the Petroleum Expropriation, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has opened a national laboratory that is able to take energy from the sun and concentrating it to a temperature of 445 degrees Celsius 5000, equivalent to average heat of the sun’s surface. These facilities, which are unique [...]

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Solar Water Purifier Solaball

We love to see designers come up with ideas for using solar energy for the purification of fresh water in underdeveloped areas. Solarball, is a solar water purifier developed by Jonathan Liow, a graduate student at Monash University. He came with a very clever design for a portable and durable, solar powered water purifier looks [...]

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Solar Parking Lots

The question of the use of existing roofs and parking spaces for the production of solar energy has been around for some time. The general feeling is that there is plenty of space around the world to install photovoltaic panels on rooftops and parking commercial spaces are otherwise just wasted space. It seems that people [...]

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Something’s Fishy in Tripoli

Way back in early 2011, members of the U.N. Security Council had no problem getting a resolution through that authorized military force in Libya ostensibly to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi. The year before, lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic were bickering over who did what and why [...]

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Is Deepwater Horizon the New Ecuador?

Nearly two years after the worst accidental offshore oil spill in the history of the energy industry, some of the biggest companies in the world are busy pointing their legal fingers at one another in court over who has to pay what in claims, damages and fines over the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A [...]

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Military Uniforms Generate Energy

A revolutionary way to generate personal energy under development could help UK troops when they are engaged in the field of battle. Scientists are developing military uniforms that generate energy. With the goal of being a fifty percent lighter than a conventional battery used by the British infantry and thermoelectric solar system could make an [...]

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