August 2009

Solar Cells To Be Printed Like Newspaper

Publication Date: 
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:05 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1251709205
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-cells-to-be-printed-like-newspaper/

Sunlight is a non exhaustible source of energy without contributing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Still it is miles away from replacing the fossil fuels. Many reasons can be sited. One of its biggest disadvantages is it is still out of reach for the common man and it has a long break-even period. Unless [...]

Sustainable Eco City Concept in Germany

Publication Date: 
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:55:58 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1251359758
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/sustainable-eco-city-concept-in-germany/

It seems the canvass of clean and green energy is getting bigger with each passing day. More and more products, vehicles, gadgets, homes and cities are being added to this ever expanding canvass. Germany’s Hamburg Harbor has announced the development of a world class Eco City. This eco city will be designed by Tec [...]

Studying Sea Waves with Radar

Publication Date: 
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:52:39 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1251273159
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/studying-sea-waves-with-radar/

Off shore wind is steady and blows harder. If a country is densely populated it is hard to find open space to install wind farms. That is why there are more and more offshore wind farms in densely populated Europe where there is limited space on land and relatively large offshore areas with shallow [...]

CPS Energy Signs 14-MW Solar PV PPA

Publication Date: 
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT
Time Stamp: 
1251262800
Original URL: 
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/08/cps-energy-signs-14-mw-pv-ppa?cmpid=rss

CPS Energy and juwi solar have signed a 30-year power purchase agreement that will lead to development of the Blue Wing Solar project, a 14-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic installation. The project is scheduled to be built just southeast of San Antonio, Texas near and will be visible from two highways.

First Solar Powered Passenger Ship for Berlin

Publication Date: 
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:04:15 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1251198255
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-solar-powered-passenger-ship-for-berlin/

Manufacturers who are concerned not only about profit but about future too are developing such products that are clean and green and run on alternative fuels. Though currently clean and green products are costly, efforts are on to make them easy on pocket too. Solon SE is a Berlin-based solar company that has produced [...]

Harnessing Tidal Wave Energy with Push Plates

Publication Date: 
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:22:05 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1251051725
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/harnessing-tidal-wave-energy-with-push-plates/

The Theme of Concept: Theme of concept is to harness the kinetic energy within the flow of water without using the conventional methods like water wheel or other types of turbines. With some changes this can be a source of producing clean energy from tidal waves.
Components of System:

Push Plates
Chain Channel
Push plates embedded [...]

First Hydrogen Power Plant in Italy

Publication Date: 
Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:18:13 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1250839093
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-hydrogen-power-plant-in-italy/

Italy has come up with world’s first hydrogen power plant. This power plant is situated in Fusina, near Venice in the Veneto region of Italy. Enel is constructing this power plant producing no undesirable greenhouse gases. It is Italy’s largest power company with a track record of fifty million power and gas customers. Enel [...]

Electricity and Desalination from Wastewater

Publication Date: 
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:53:04 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1250754784
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/electricity-and-desalination-from-wastewater/

In most part of the world safe and clean drinking water is unavailable for daily consumption and industrial use. Currently to desalinate water two kinds of technologies are being used. First is known as reverse osmosis and the second is electro-dialysis. Both of these processes need huge amount of energy. A team of scientists [...]

Hydrokinetic Power Barges

Publication Date: 
Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:15:57 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1250622957
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/hydrokinetic-power-barges/

Interest in hydrokinetic energy — which generates power by using submerged or partially submerged turbines that harness the energy from flowing water — is on the rise throughout the world. Renewable energy advocates, governments and investors are increasingly becoming aware of river currents and the huge associated energy potential. Because hydrokinetic power generation relies [...]

Digital Combustion Simulation

Publication Date: 
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:58:18 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1250441898
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/digital-combustion-simulation/

When researchers arrive at a particular after lots of experimentation they already have used up lots of resources in terms of money, man, material and time. Now scientists are trying to arrive at a result by simulating the experiments on computers and thus saving on lots of resources. A team of researchers from ETH [...]