Green Cruise Freighters

in Environmental issues

The transportation industry is one of the most polluting industries worldwide. Maersk is one of the largest container shipping world’s largest ocean liners, so it is a big polluter. But since 2007, the company has already reduced its emissions by 17%, and the purchase of 10 new super-green cargo is on track to reduce its [...]

Climate Change Resilent Businesses

(Bonn/Davos, 26 January 2012) – The secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has launched a new online tool that showcases how businesses and communities can adapt to the inevitable effects of climate change. The new Adaptation Private Sector Initiative database on the web site features climate change adaptation activities pioneered by [...]

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Solar Yacht Sails Around the World Powered by Nothing More than the Sun

The World Future Energy Summit has recently finished in Abu Dhabi and for me one of the highlights was the Turanor, an impressive solar powered yacht designed and built by Planet Solar. It is the largest boat of its kind to ever sail and the first to ever circumnavigate the globe powered entirely by the [...]

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Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the marine counterpart to NASA. It was created after the oil price [...]

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Making Solar Energy Cheaper

Silicon converts sunlight into electricity, the Earth receives enough sunlight in one hour to supply all the energy humanity needs for one year. But despite being so common as sand, silicon photovoltaic panels or any variety of other semiconductor materials, are not cheap, especially when compared with the cost of electricity generated by burning coal [...]

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Top 10 Innovative Energy Companies

This is the top10 of the most innovative energy companies in the world and why they have earned this recognition. 1.SolarCity It is the leading installer of solar panels. In sum, SolarCity has placed more than 10 000 solar roofs – 10% of the total in the U.S. Its main customers include eBay, Walmart, and [...]

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New Climate Technology Centre

The secretariat of the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) has issued a call for proposals for the host of the Climate Technology Centre (CTC), as requested by governments at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban at the end of last year. The CTC, along with its Network, is the implementing arm of the Technology [...]

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Transparent Solar Samsung TV

At the CeBIT electronics in Germany, Samsung unveiled its latest prototype television. It is a 46-inch TV with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 LCD, completely powered by solar energy and transparent! The prototype solar transparent Samsung TV was designed to use only a small amount of energy and receives solar panels get the ambient [...]

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Solar Energy Capturing Telescope

There is much research with the intention of making more efficient solar panels. A team of researchers at the University of Arizona, led by Roger Angel, who is a world renowned researcher in the field of solar energy and optics, has been given the task of developing a new solar module to bring solar energy [...]

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