San Francisco’s Mayor, Gavin Newsom declared he wants to convert the city in the most ecological and “green” place of the USA.
Terminal 3 on San Francisco International Airport has just installed 2,800 solar panels as part of the energy reduction program to reduce energy consumption in the city.
During the openning press conference for this action [...]
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In a new report approved by the European parliament, there were announced the measures that are thought to be taken for the support of the use of renewable energies.
Mentioned below are the most important measures.
Certify all biofuels
Give priority to all low energy-consumption vehicles
Develop an environmental protection policy for transportation
Encourage in an active way the [...]
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We have talked earlier about how Casa Geo was building ecological houses, now the Mexican government is promoting a similar project.
President Calderon is under pressure to face the housing and polluting gases emission problem. Last week he announced a new goal to build on me million ecological houses that will save 1 million tons of [...]
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The first solar-powered cargo ship in the world, put to sea on Friday in Japan, with the hope of reducing fuel costs and carbon emissions if carmakers send him their exports.
Officials from the shipping company Nippon Yusen K.K. and oil distributor Nippon Oil Corp., both participants in the project, reported that “AURIGA LEADER” set sail [...]
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It sounds difficult to believe, but a man in Pennsylvania, United States, manage to set fire to a salt water conduit through a generator of RF. He discovered it by chance to this, since what tried was to desalinate the water of sea to cure cancer, but discovered that he could maintain ignited the water [...]
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If we talk about solar energy integrated into a building, we heard it we probably imagine a solar roof tiles. Well here’s a small change to the concept. The company announced the Solar LSR “first transparent photovoltaic windows of the world”, which the company says can save up to 50% of expenditures on heating and [...]
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Last week, Panasonic announced they will buy Sanyo for 9 billion dollars, a business that Panasonic expects catapult the business of solar and battery business. Sanyo is part of Panasonic Group and brings with it great solar photovoltaic business.
As an example of Sanyo’s commitment to solar energy, the company plans to build a 70 MW [...]
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The Ministry of the Environment of Spain and the National Union of Familiar Associations have financed a new called game “Guardians of the weather” in which the enemies of the Earth are 3 Titans and thus to restrain the effects that cause the climatic change.
The game, that consists of three phases, each of them dedicated [...]
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Using solar energy is a great way to reduce the impact to the environment through clean energy production. Solar energy is produced by capturing energy from the sun and uses it to heat air or water. This is achieved by using different components of solar panels, solar cells, solar collectors and solar water heaters. All [...]
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This solar Gadget is bigger than the other than we have presented/displayed here, but transportable and with the advantage of being able to load until a television or a portable DVD.
The solar paddles on the solar energy table load a nickel battery that transmits the energy to the it. He has a maximum exit of [...]
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