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April 2010

Buffalo Wind Energy To Develop Community Project in Texas

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 11:00pm
Publication Date: 
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Time Stamp: 
1272600000
Original URL: 
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/04/buffalo-wind-energy-to-develop-community-project-in-texas?cmpid=rss

National Wind and KRS Energy have launched Buffalo Wind Energy, LLC, a utility-scale, community wind project located in west central Randall County, Texas. The Buffalo Wind Project plans to develop up to 300 megawatts of wind energy.

FloDesign Aims to Expand Wind Turbine Business

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 3:56pm
Publication Date: 
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:56:30 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1272488190
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/flodesign-wind-turbine-business/

Backed with a $3 million assistance from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Wilbraham-based FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp. will expand its operations in the state. The company is recognized as the developer of a U.S. Department of Energy-recognized “transformative” wind energy technology. It will maintain its aerodynamic research center in Wilbraham along with establishing [...]

PV Cell Prototype Generates Electricity from IR and UV Light

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 2:15am
Publication Date: 
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:15:26 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1272266126
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/pv-cell-prototype-generates-electricity-from-ir-and-uv-light/

Solar energy is present in abundance around us. The problem is how to harness a substantial portion of it for human use. How to raise the efficiency bar of solar conversion into electricity? Scientists are continuously engaged in finding a way out for this problem. Recently scientists at the Kyoto Institute of Technology [...]

Siemens Turbines To Power 200-MW Papalote Creek II

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 11:00pm
Publication Date: 
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Time Stamp: 
1271995200
Original URL: 
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/04/siemens-to-supply-turbines-200-mw-papalote-creek-ii-project?cmpid=rss

E.ON has placed an order with Siemens Energy for the supply of 87 of its SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines for the Papalote Creek II wind power plant in San Patricio County, Texas. The project will have a total installed rated capacity of more than 200 megawatts (MW).

Beef-based diesel: Amtrak goes to the cows

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 2:30pm
Time Stamp: 
1272272402
Original URL: 
http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/intelligent-energy/beef-based-diesel-amtrak-goes-to-the-cows/882/

(Source: Prometheus Institute - References: TreeHugger) Fat from cattle is now powering a train between Oklahoma and Texas. by Melissa Mahony

Ontario Solar Power could match US Nuclear Power

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 2:29pm
Publication Date: 
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:29:03 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1271791743
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/ontario-solar-power-us-nuclear-power/

Queen’s University Applied Sustainability Research Group located in Kingston, Canada comes out with two studies that claim solar power in southeastern Ontario can be created in abundance. The natural question is how much abundance? The answer is mind-boggling. Southeastern Ontario has the potential to produce almost as much power as all the nuclear [...]

Carbon-based Solar Cells

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 4:48pm
Publication Date: 
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:48:44 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1271713724
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/carbon-based-solar-cells/

Solar panels need silicon for absorption of light. Silicon doesn’t come cheap.This cost-factor is preventing people from using solar energy on a large scale. Scientists utilize another substance i.e. ruthenium for solar cells. Rutheniumcan is cheaper than silicon but ruthenium is a rare metal on Earth. It is as rare as platinum. Naturally it [...]

NASA’s Puffin: The Personal Electric Air Vehicle

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 2:58am
Publication Date: 
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:58:00 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1271231880
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/nasa-puffin-personal-electric-air-vehicle/

Mark Moore, an aerospace engineer, is the person who dreamed about the Puffin. Puffin is a single seated electric powered airplane. Moore conceptualized the idea of electric aircraft for his doctoral degree. Operating it from your house is as simple as taking out your car from the garage. You can launch this aircraft from [...]

MIT Working on More Powerful, Lightweight Batteries

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 10:15pm
Publication Date: 
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:15:13 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1271128513
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/more-powerful-lightweight-batteries/

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on lithium-air batteries that could help in generating more powerful, lightweight batteries than available currently. Yang Shao-Horn is an MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering. According to him many research groups are trying to improve on lithium-air batteries. But they [...]

Sunlight to Electricity with Solid-State Photovoltaics

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Sun, 04/11/2010 - 3:14pm
Publication Date: 
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:14:20 +0000
Time Stamp: 
1271016860
Original URL: 
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/sunlight-to-electricity-solid-state-photovoltaics/

Conventional solid-state solar cells are suffering from the problem of the bandgap voltage limitation. Scientists are trying to capture more and more of sunlight and convert it into electricity. If scientists are able to increase the efficiency of the conversion rate that will put solar energy into fossil fuel league minus its undesirable effects. [...]