Over the past year, First Solar, a firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, has significantly expanded its activity worldwide and has brought its new solar-power technology to the forefront of the media’s attention. Solar power systems are still considered extremely expensive ...

The search for new energy sources and for the most efficient ways of using the existing ones is evidently becoming crucial in today’s machinery-driven world. It seems now that British scientists have successfully made use of an additional source of ...

The Pennsylvania based Lithium Technology Corporation recently demonstrated a new type of “plug-in” Toyota Prius hybrid car. The new model is based on advanced lithium iron phosphate battery which allows the hybrid car to travel up to a distance of ...

An open-source engineering project is currently under development in Canada. The project aims to create a new power plant design that will use a combination of solar and geothermal energy for use in more distant locations without polluting the environment. ...

Researchers from the Purdue University in Indiana have developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water. The hydrogen may be used for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, which in turn could be used ...

The British company SoalrLab is responsible for developing some of the world’s most innovative solar powered boats including the Hamburg SolarShuttle capable of carrying up to 120 passengers in complete salient with zero-emissions. The company recently suggested a new version ...

Energy giant Shell’s eco-marathon 2007 which took place in France produced an amazing record when the winner in the prototype category was able to achieve an unbelievable traveling distance of 3,039km using only one liter of fuel. In the eco-marathon ...

The Florida based company Windhunter is developing a new concept that combines an offshore oil rig, huge retractable wind turbines and electrolyzer that separates the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. The result is a floating rig which converts the ...

The Canadian company Magenn will ship the first commercial flying wind turbine this year. The first Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS) model will be able to produce about 4kW of clean power (enough for a small community) and will stay ...

A team of students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa is working on a new solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which they hope will soon break a 17 year old world aviation record. Although solar aviation is ...