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The Rise of the Solar Tower

The Rise of the Solar Tower

The Australian firm “EnviroMission” is developing a large-scale solar tower that, according to the company, will be capable of supplying electricity to 200,000 typical Australian homes. EnviroMission owns the exclusive license to the German-designed Solar Tower technology in Australia. The ...

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Repower 5M – Largest Wind Turbine

Repower 5M – Largest Wind Turbine

The Repower 5M is one of the largest and most powerful wind turbines in the world, with a rated power of 5 megawatts, a rotor diameter of 126 meters, and a hub height of around 90 meters at sea and ...

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Israel – First Country to Welcome Electric Cars

Israel – First Country to Welcome Electric Cars

Carlos Ghosn, President of the French-Japanese car manufacturer “Renault-Nissan”, and Shai Agassi, an American-Israeli entrepreneur and former CEO of the software giant “SAP AG”, have recently signed an agreement of collaboration. In the agreement, the two agreed upon a plan ...

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Solar Ark

Solar Ark

Sanyo’s Solar Ark, located in the Gifu Prefecture at the center of Japan, is a 315m-wide (1033 feet), 37m-tall (121 feet) solar photovoltaic power generation facility. Its design was inspired “by the vision of an ark embarking on a journey ...

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Solar Tree Lights Up The Streets

Solar Tree Lights Up The Streets

On October 8th 2007, the innovative Solar Tree project was presented for the first time in front of “MAK” Museum of Applied and Contemporary Arts in Vienna, Austria. This urban lighting project was produced and developed by the Artemide and ...

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Solar Cells of the Future

Solar Cells of the Future

Dr. Martin Aagesen from the Nano-Science Center and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has discovered a new crystalline material. The crystalline material, called nano flakes, is more efficient than solar panels, converting almost twice the amount ...

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Hyperion Nuclear Batteries

Hyperion Nuclear Batteries

The Los Alamos based company Hyperion Power Generation is developing a new power source called the Hyperion Hydride Reactor, a sealed fission reactor that can supply power to a small community. Although the portable nuclear reactor is the size of ...

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Cheap Solar Electricity?

Nanosolar, a California-based company, has developed a unique technology for producing cost-efficient solar electricity. The company says that the new technology is significantly superior to existing solar cell techniques, both in its versatility and in its availability. Named “Innovation of ...

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Power Through Movement Technology

Power Through Movement Technology

The Idaho based Company Motion 2 Energy has recently developed a system capable of channeling the energy created by movement into electric energy. The motion required for generating the energy can be either human or vehicular, and the electric energy ...

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CCXR- Bio Fuel Powered Sports Car

CCXR- Bio Fuel Powered Sports Car

The elite Swedish sports car manufacturer Koenigsegg has created a new bio-fuel powered sports car named CCXR. This Limited Edition CCXR is the first homologated car currently in production to reach over 1,000 Brake horsepower, and a top speed of ...

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