According to a recent forecast from the Council of the Global Wind Energy, a million people will work in the wind industry by 2010, and over 3 million wind jobs by 2050. Today there are about 400,000 people working in this industry.

Why wind? The brokerage firm Goldman Sachs believes that wind has a significant advantage over solar energy in Europe due to the stability and maturity of the industry.

Wind energy is expanding outside of Europe, a project of 5 GW of capacity outside of China, is currently in development and will have the generating capacity of France and the UK together.

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Those who have been near a diesel power generator can confirm that they are very noisy. Well, a new solar power portable generator is completely silent. The generator is mounted on a trailer with solar panels on the roof.

It is called the AMP, and is equipped with four KC-130 photovoltaic panels by Kyocera with a continuous output of 4.400 watts. If one day there is not much sun, the generator can be connected to the normal flow of energy.

When fully charged, the generator has enough power to run a 42-inch LCD television with a sound system for 5 hours.

While the AMP generator can be used for frequent travelers it is more likely to be used in emergency situations.

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IST Energy has found a way to put a gas power plant in a container in the trash, and expect to sell it to hospitals, offices and universities.

The process is fairly clean, as trash gasifies (methane) and burn the methane, instead of burning the garbage itself. Of course that this garbage will continue to produce carbon dioxide, but it will not produce the pollutants that are generated by burning trash or liquids that end up in aquifers.

Universities and offices can expect to pay up to $ 200,000 a year just to handle the garbage. Once you add this to the savings that will be generated the IST units seem quite cheap, costing $ 850,000.

Unfortunately, the garbage must be separated prior to the squeeze. The metal and glass do not contain things that are energy functional, so it must be segregated and recycled separately. But practically everything else generates the gas and can be used to generate energy.

Fill the unit with a maximum of 3 tons of garbage can generate up to 120 kW of power, and twice that energy into heat. This energy is sufficient to supply 15% of the energy that a building needs.

In the end, the best option is not to burn the trash, because we are burning paper (trees), etc. The best option is to recycle.

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Just yesterday we you showed a machine which took advantage of the thermal and photovoltaic solar energy in one device.

This time BrightPhase Energy has created a box that uses three technologies to harness sunlight.

First, it has silicon solar cells with an efficiency of 18% to provide electricity. Second, pipes through which fluid absorb solar energy to heat a house or water. Finally, solar cells are mounted on some kind of blinds, which are moving as the sun moves, and during that journey allow the passage of natural light, like a skylight.

After harnessing all these different ways of solar energy BrightPhase said that the cost of using their energy panel is $ 1.80 dollars per watt.

The aim of Photensity is to be a replacement for skylights, and use the space to also generate power.

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We all know that street signs, reflective signs, not always work when you need to see from long distances. Luna Road has some new signs that work with solar energy and LEDs, so you can see the curves for several miles at night. The lights of the company are manufactured in solid crystals and come in economic models, intermediate and advanced.

After charging for 8 hours in the day, these “ghosts” can illuminate up to 12 hours. The lights are available in red, blue, green, amber and white. According to the company, LED lights provide better information to drivers and increase the time to make decisions when driving at night.

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Solar companies are seeing the benefits of taking advantage of both energy sources (solar thermal and photovoltaic) in a single device. Up ahead in the career development of this new trend is Entech Solar, located in New Jersey, United States, with the ThermaVolt, hybrid solar equipment.

This unit has both solar photovoltaic cells to generate electricity and fluid tubes to generate hot water. The apparatus is efficient and economical because it has a mirror that focuses sunlight increasing it up to 20 times. With that amount of sunlight, the amount of solar cells is only 5% of those who need a traditional solar panel. The lens also serves to increase the heat pipes and heat water faster.

According to Entech, the solar device can generate up to 4 times more energy than a normal one.

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An U.S. Company has successfully tested a revolutionary solar panel, which is expected to lower the cost of photovoltaic solar energy in more than 50%, and start a new era of affordable solar energy products.

The panel, known as the Alubond Solar Collector Panel (SCP), was created by American Building Technologies, a subsidiary of the European group Mulk Holdings.

One of the Mulk spokesmen said “We hope the success of this project lead to increased development of solar power plants, which not only increase in use of renewable energy, but also reduce pollution currently caused by power generation.”

Solar panels usually have a heavy conventional glass mirrors, weighing up to 12.5 kg/m2, and will require heavy structures to support them and riveted to reduce efficiency.

The spokesman said, “the SCP is a composite of approximately 3 mm 4 kg/m2, with 92% reflectivity. The product’s ability to withstand parabolic shapes, and their relative easy process boards, substantially reducing manufacturing costs of the structure. ”

The SCP patented technology has been chosen for an investment of $ 200 million to build a plant in New Mexico.

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This interesting solar Gadget is called miniWiz Solarbulb. The lamp is fully charged in 2 or 3 hours of exposure to solar energy, which can give up to 6 hours of pleasant LED light.

The most incredible part of the lamp, which is waterproof, is that it can be screwed to any plastic bottle of water or soda, which creates a pleasant diffused light. The light can be amplified by adding water to the bottle.

A sensor detects when it is dark, so no need to worry that the energy is spent while illuminated. The lamp is available in a variety of colors and is expected to cost $ 25, which is not bad.

Compared with other solar gadgets, this solar lamp that is relatively cheap and is attractive enough to buy it and give it a good use. For more green tech, solar products and lamps in Mexico visit the online store of Un Blog Verde.

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“Our building has a deck can move and rotate with the sun by tilting, not by turns rotating to follow the direction of the sun”, explained project director Josep Maria Adell, a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Madrid (UPM), during his presentation in New York.

This university is one that coordinates the Spanish nomination made by a multidisciplinary team of young engineers and architects for the fourth edition of this biennial competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, to be held in Washington next October.

“The B & W House” has been named in allusion to the white and black (black & white) as the simplest way to express the harmony and balance between the extremes of the environment”.

“This building also has a set of innovative technologies that allow for maximum solar energy and transmitted to the interior of the building or to heat, either to store it and then convert it into electricity,” explained the professor.

It has designed a square house, a floor of 45 square meters, which provides a large inverted pyramid that houses a solar panel capable of monitoring the orientation of the sun at all times to stay in a horizontal position by night.

The interior is a unique portable module includes all the necessary technology to be energy self-sufficiency, since the energy captured by solar panels on the roof joins the vertical collection panels on the walls which are oriented during the day depending on the path of the sun.

In addition, other panels embedded in outer walls; in this case fixed charge is going to heat water which will also serve as an energy source.

“All the potential energy coming into the building through the sun are captured, stored and delayed in their application to use as necessary to maintain the best possible energy,” said project director.

The houses that bid must be subjected to ten tests in which assesses factors such as livability, energy efficiency, functionality and engineering, entertainment, lighting design, and even how to communicate their differences.

Once past the competition, the project also envisages the possibility of extending the house by adding a floor between the first floor and automatic roof, whose movements are reminiscent of those of a sunflower.

UPM has already participated in two previous occasions, which won the ninth and fifth place, so “this time we have to overcome, we will try to win,” said Adell.

He added that this would be a good letter of introduction to Spain for the organization in 2010 of the first contest in Europe a version of this contest, as both parties have agreed.

The UPM is working on behalf of the Ministry of Housing (from Spain) in organizing Decathlon Europe to be held in Madrid in 2010 in which 21 universities will participate from 10 countries, “he told Efe the project of this initiative, Sergio Vega.

Indicated that among those selected to participate in this edition, which will take place next to the Jardines del Palacio Real de Madrid, there are universities in Spain, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, France, Finland, Israel and China.

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Global warming is increasing the average temperature on Earth near the surface and in the oceans.

The global surface temperature has risen 0.74 º C over the past 100 years, finishing the count in 2005. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) concluded that most of this increase in temperature since the mid-20th century, is “almost sure” to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases caused by humans.

Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes have probably a small warming effect from pre-industrial era, in 1950, and a small cooling effect from 1950.

These conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academic science, including all the major science academies of the most industrialized countries.
While individual scientists have raised their voices in disagreement with these findings, most scientists working on the problem of global warming are in line with the findings of the IPCC.

Projections of climate models indicate that the surface temperature of Earth increased from 1.1 to 6.4 º C during the 21st century. The uncertainty in this estimate lies in the use of new and future greenhouse gases and the use of models with different concepts of climate. Another uncertainty is how the warming and the changes vary by region from which we are talking about. Although most studies focus on a period until 2100, it is estimated that global warming would last a thousand years, although the problems with greenhouse gases are stabilized. Thanks to the large heat capacity of the oceans.

Increasing global temperature will cause the ocean level rise and changing rainfall patterns, including the expansion of sub-tropical deserts. Another likely effect is that of extreme weather events, changes in agriculture, melting glaciers, species extinctions and increased lethal diseases.

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