http://www.alternative-energy-news.info Alternative Energy News and Information about Renewable Energy Technologies: Articles, Discussions, News and Videos. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/sharp-solar-conversion-efficiency-record/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/sharp-solar-conversion-efficiency-record/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:41:20 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=727 We still have to miles to cover before solar power can replace the fossil fuels and become a cheap and effective solution for common folks. But it is indisputable that sun is the single greatest fuel source we can harness to our advantage. Solar energy can leave its impact on a global scale in [...]
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/sharp-solar-conversion-efficiency-record/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-flower-tower/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-flower-tower/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:02:40 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=723 On the odd chance that you were traveling through South Israel in late June, you may have had to do a double take thinking that your eyes had deceived you. In the distance, it may have appeared as though a giant flower had sprouted right out of the desert floor. That was [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-flower-tower/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/cash-incentives-solar-energy-california/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/cash-incentives-solar-energy-california/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:27:43 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=719 It seems the California Governor is making an all-out effort to encourage people to switch over the renewable source of energy. Assembly Bill 920, authored by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-Marin, and signed by the governor of California, requires utilities to pay solar customers who produce more energy than they use. Currently homeowners that produce more [...]
Posted in: Industry, Politics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/cash-incentives-solar-energy-california/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/survey-alternative-energy-sources-vital-survival/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/survey-alternative-energy-sources-vital-survival/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:38:29 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=718 The international image of America is a country that is constantly creating roadblocks in the way of reaching a global agreement on climate change and environmental protection. Americans are seen as totally oblivious to the issues of global warming, and energy and food crisis. Recent research shows a totally different outlook. When asked if [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Politics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/survey-alternative-energy-sources-vital-survival/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/powering-nations-largest-solar-power-plant/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/powering-nations-largest-solar-power-plant/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:01:53 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=717 Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has announced the near completion of its DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida. This solar power plant will be producing electricity by the end of month. This project is ahead of its schedule. The plant has an impressive number of 90,000 photovoltaic panels. Experts claim [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/powering-nations-largest-solar-power-plant/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/splitting-water-to-store-solar-energy/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/splitting-water-to-store-solar-energy/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:32:50 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=710 MIT professor Daniel Nocera earlier worked on a catalysts that can divide water molecules which can be utilized to store energy. Daniel Nocera has established a company named as Sun Catalytix to give his dreams a concrete shape. His company is backed by venture capital firm Polaris Ventures. Nocera is known as a “huge [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/splitting-water-to-store-solar-energy/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/worlds-largest-solar-power-project-planned/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/worlds-largest-solar-power-project-planned/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:17:11 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=708 Gujarat, a state of India, is quite eager to opt for alternative sources of energy. It started out as a small dream. The Gujarat government visualized only 500 MW of solar power generation by 2014. But this humble goal may now be increased to 3,000 MW. The Gujarat Government is undertaking a $10 billion [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/worlds-largest-solar-power-project-planned/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/new-imec-solar-cells-184-conversion-efficiency/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/new-imec-solar-cells-184-conversion-efficiency/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:22:06 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=707 IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) has presented a large-area solar cell with 18.4% conversion efficiency at the ongoing European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany). A world leader in its own right, IMEC is an independent research center working on nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. It is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and has offices in Belgium, the [...]
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/new-imec-solar-cells-184-conversion-efficiency/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-3d-images-of-polymer-solar-cells/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-3d-images-of-polymer-solar-cells/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:47:30 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=705 The Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Ulm scientists have successfully developed the first high-resolution 3D images of the internal structure of a hybrid polymer solar cell. This helps them in gaining important insights into the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and how much it will be effective when used for energy [...]
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-3d-images-of-polymer-solar-cells/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/more-efficient-solar-cells-with-carbon-nanotubes/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/more-efficient-solar-cells-with-carbon-nanotubes/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:11:45 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=703 Silicon is one of the basic but expensive materials used in designing solar panels. If we can use something else as effective as silicon but more economical, solar power will be within the reach of the common consumers. Cornell researchers are thinking on somewhat similar lines. They are using a carbon nanotube instead of [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/more-efficient-solar-cells-with-carbon-nanotubes/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/a-step-closer-to-solar-power-in-space/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/a-step-closer-to-solar-power-in-space/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:31:39 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=698 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI Corporation are undertaking an ambitious project of $ 21bn. They are aspiring to design and develop a Space-based solar farm that would generate 1GW of power. This will require an area of four square kilometer consisting of rows of solar panels. This space solar farm will be housed 36,000km [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/a-step-closer-to-solar-power-in-space/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-instant-solar-pv-system/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-instant-solar-pv-system/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:06:34 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=697 Solomon Technologies announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Technipower LLC has installed its first Instant Solar(TM) system at its Danbury, CT headquarters. Technipower has successfully completed the development program in less than six months. Their pilot manufacturing is in the process now. This is a pre-assembled, pre-wired system. It has two solar arrays [...]
Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-instant-solar-pv-system/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-cells-to-be-printed-like-newspaper/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-cells-to-be-printed-like-newspaper/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:05 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=695 Sunlight is a non exhaustible source of energy without contributing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Still it is miles away from replacing the fossil fuels. Many reasons can be sited. One of its biggest disadvantages is it is still out of reach for the common man and it has a long break-even period. Unless [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-cells-to-be-printed-like-newspaper/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-solar-powered-passenger-ship-for-berlin/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-solar-powered-passenger-ship-for-berlin/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:04:15 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=692 Manufacturers who are concerned not only about profit but about future too are developing such products that are clean and green and run on alternative fuels. Though currently clean and green products are costly, efforts are on to make them easy on pocket too. Solon SE is a Berlin-based solar company that has produced [...]
Posted in: Inventions, Solar Power, Transportation]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/first-solar-powered-passenger-ship-for-berlin/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/heathrow-airport-gets-green-makeover/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/heathrow-airport-gets-green-makeover/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:58:08 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=686 BAA is trying to upgrade its airport terminal Heathrow East by investing to an amount of £1 billion and naming it as Terminal 2. This new terminal would be designed by Foster + Partners and developed by Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke’s joint partnership company HETCo. This terminal will house around twenty million passengers [...]
Posted in: Industry, Solar Power, Transportation]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/heathrow-airport-gets-green-makeover/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/plastics-that-convert-light-to-electricity/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/plastics-that-convert-light-to-electricity/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:22:10 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=684 We all are familiar with the positive impact of alternative energy on our environment. Now researchers are trying to improve upon the existing alternative energy technology. As far as solar energy is concerned they are trying to make solar panels cheap and people friendly. Normally the solar panels are quite bulky and difficult to [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/plastics-that-convert-light-to-electricity/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-forest-cools-and-charges-electric-cars/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-forest-cools-and-charges-electric-cars/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:01:29 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=683 Imagine a parking lot that keeps your car cool and charges it while you do whatever you need to do after parking your car. That’s what the new solar forest designed by designer Neville Mars aims to achieve. Electric-powered automobiles are a great way of reducing pollution levels but the main hurdle in the [...]
Posted in: Electric Cars, Inventions, Solar Power, Transportation]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-forest-cools-and-charges-electric-cars/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/suncatcher-power-system-ready-for-commercial-production/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/suncatcher-power-system-ready-for-commercial-production/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:00:11 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=677 Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar worked jointly and have come out with their precious device called SunCatchers(TM). They exhibited their four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). SunCatchers are the new dishes that will be utilized on commercial-scale by 2010. Chuck Andraka, [...]
Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/suncatcher-power-system-ready-for-commercial-production/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-lanterns-for-sub-saharan-africans/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-lanterns-for-sub-saharan-africans/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:00:57 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=675 When one lives in a developed country it becomes hard to visualize that how people manage in those parts of the world where electricity is still a distant dream. Residents of the village Ahire, Maharashtra in India claimed that people didn’t want to marry their daughters in their village due to lack of electricity. [...]
Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power]]> http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/solar-lanterns-for-sub-saharan-africans/feed/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/uavs-to-be-powered-by-dye-sensitized-solar-cells/ http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/uavs-to-be-powered-by-dye-sensitized-solar-cells/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:00:37 +0000 Alternative Energy http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=674 The progress is being steadily made in the field of alternative energy. Though we have not hit the bull’s eye yet but still the search is on. Scientists and researchers all over the world are spending sleepless nights on their projects to find an all-pervasive alternative to fossil fuels. How can we utilize the [...]
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