In the picture below we can see a series of pipes installed underground to help maintain the temperature of a building.
Whether to use hot or cold energy that is generated in the basement in the summer to help cool the tubes and in the winter to help heat the building to which they are connected.
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The U.S. Company Recycled Energy Development (RED) or Recycled Energy Development’s mission is a cost-effective reduction of greenhouse gases by developing and owning energy recycling facilities. The company offers help to factories to recycle wasted energy and generate electricity and thermal energy from a variety of different sources.
According to Tom Casten, chief executive of the [...]
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The solar thermal energy plants focus the sun rays on a single point to create heat, which is then converted into electricity. There are several ways to concentrate solar radiation as parabolic mirrors, heliostats (mirrors that follow the sun, so flat reflectors, etc).
1. The Companies BrightSource Energy and PGE are building the largest solar thermal [...]
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In this short video, we see that the whole process is carried out to install photovoltaic solar panels on a house. As we can see although it is not difficult it is laborious, because it is not as simple as to put the panels on the roof. There are rails and there are mounting devices, [...]
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Thermic solar energy or thermosolar energy, consists in the use of sun’s energy to produce heat for the production of warm water for domestic use, either warm sanitary water, heating or to the production of mechanic energy, therefore, electricity.
Additionally it may be used for feeding a refrigeration machinery for absorption, using [...]
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Three families, members of a rural savings box “Unidos Venceremos”, from the San Antonio town, department of Ocotepeque, will be benefited directly, and other 15 families indirectly, with the installation of a solar energy pumping watering system.
The installation of the watering system will have an area of two parceled blocks and have as an objective [...]
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Nowadays there are at least 2 million people without access to sanitary water. Due to several causes like drought, pollution and saline water not suitable for human consumption; world’s population growing and the decrease of foods, need the spreading of agriculture in arid zones.
Arid zone have the lack of water and the huge amount of [...]
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Created by an Australian M.D. , Solar Sailor is the first ferry using hybrid propulsion. It already has 6 years working in Australia and in 2008 begun its services in the 2nd longest ferry route, the one from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island.
It has an hybrid engine diesel electric, the ferry has sails covered with [...]
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A group of social solicitors reunited in Brussels, people with no more merit than winning the confidence of the electors. The haven been discussing a new energetic diagram, therefore, about our life. This without haven the minor idea about what they are talking about, except for Ms Merkel, Doctor in Physics Sciences.
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The German company Q-Cells, one of the world’s largest in solar energy, will invest three thousand 500 million dollars in the city of Mexicali, to supply the U.S., Mexico and Latin America.
This investment was achieved through an agreement reached by the German company, the state of Baja California, the Mexican federal government and the Silicon [...]
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