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Cheaper Geothermal

Friday, July 24th, 2009 - 10:22:58 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, say they've developed a superior type of heat-extracting fluid that could...

Hamsters On Treadmills Generate Electricity

Saturday, February 14th, 2009 - 18:24:22 - Anuradha Menon

Could hamsters help solve the world’s energy crisis? Probably not, but a hamster wearing a power-generating jacket is doing its own small part to...

New Oh-So-Quiet Rooftop Wind Turbine

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 16:40:32 - Anuradha Menon

Plastic parts maker Cascade Engineering is bringing a small rooftop wind turbine called the SWIFT to North America. The company says the SWIFT is...

Improved Way for Creating Hydrogen Developed
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 - Roni Barr
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently developed a new catalyst material...

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Asphalt Roads Into Renewable Energy Source

Friday, August 15th, 2008 - 20:48:36 - Anuradha Menon

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun’s warmth...

Cows May Generate Electricity for Millions

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 - 10:47:11 - Anuradha Menon

Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America’s...

Rooftop Solar System for General Motors

Friday, July 11th, 2008 - 21:14:39 - Anuradha Menon

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. announced today that its UNI-SOLAR(R) thin-film flexible solar laminates will power the world's largest rooftop solar...

Unlimited Solar Energy from the Ocean?
Monday, February 25th, 2008 - Sarah Gingichashvili
In the late 1800’s, the French physicist Jacques Arsene d’Arsonval proposed a method for generating electricity using the...