August 17th, 2010

BiFab will build world’s most advanced tidal energy turbine

Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab), a Scottish company, was named as winner of the £4M contract to build world’s most advanced tidal energy turbine in the Sound of Islay.

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August 12th, 2010

Magnesium could become a very important alternative energy source

Researchers say that magnesium could be considered an alternative energy source because it can store ten times more energy than hydrogen.

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February 21st, 2010

India Plans to Generate 13GW of Renewable Electric Power

India recently announced that they will build the world’s largest renewable energy power plant that will generate 13GW of electric power.

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November 26th, 2009

World’s First Osmotic Power Plant in Norway

Osmotic power is actually the energy resulted from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water. In other words, if you want to obtain carbon-neutral energy you have to mix seawater with fresh water.

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November 21st, 2009

New Catalyst May Allow Exploitation of Natural Gas at Low Costs

This catalyst is actually made of a nitrogenous material, a covalently triazine-based network.

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July 24th, 2009

Microfluidic Fuel Cells Could Provide Energy for Portable Devices

Daniel Spencer an engineer who recently finished studies at Meng in Electronic Engineering at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science, has found a new way to store electricity for portable devices.

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June 17th, 2009

Solar Project Desertec – real possibility, real project

Siemens AG, Deutsche Bank or the Energy supplier Eon, have shown interest in the DESERTEC Concept.

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May 19th, 2009

Top 5 Renewable Energy Sources

Renewable energy sources are environmentaly friendly energy sources that capture their energy from existing flows of energy, from on-going natural processes, such as sunshine, wind, flowing water and geotermal heat flows.

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