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10 Minute Charge for Student-Built Electric Car
We are familiar with the better qualities of electric vehicles. They use alternative energy and leave less carbon footprints on the climate. But they are still not mass produced. They have many drawbacks and one has to find a remedy for such disadvantages. One of the hurdles in making them vehicles of masses is that they can’t be charged easily. They need lots of time to be charged fully. MIT students are trying to produce an alternative to fossil fuel driven cars. They are trying to build up a car that is clean and green but provides good competition to recent automobiles. They claim that their electric cars can be charged fully within ten minutes. Normally an EV vehicle takes overnight to get fully charged. Radu Gogoana is an undergraduate on the Electric Vehicle Team. He claims “Right … Leave a Comment Electric Cars, Inventions, Transportation
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10 Minute Charge for Student-Built Electric Car
30 Jul 09 | Virtual-Engineering Power Plants
We are familiar with the fact that photovoltaic and wind energy installations, hydroelectric power stations and biogas resources provide us with much desired clean and green energy and with minimal or no carbon content. But they are still in the stage of infancy and needed more work on them in order to replace fossil fuels. One of the toughest aspect is they are complex to design and maintain. Scientists are trying to tackle this aspect with the help of virtual reality (VR). They think that VR will make planning and operation easier. Leave a Comment Future Energy, Industry, Inventions
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What factors affect the output of wind turbines?
Wind energy is undoubtedly one of the cleanest forms of producing power from a renewable source. There is no pollution, there is no burning of fossil fuels, and unless something very drastic happens, you don’t run out of wind. But it’s not like you can erect a wind turbine anywhere and it will start generating power for you. There are lots of factors that can make an impact on the amount of energy you can generate out of wind. Leave a Comment Industry, Wind Power, Wind Turbines
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Hydrogen From Waste Materials
Environmentalists are continuously searching for green and clean fuel. Until now they have been putting a lot of energy and talent into hydrogen fuels because when hydrogen is burned, the only emission it makes is water vapor. So it is a great advantage that burning of hydrogen doesn’t produce carbon dioxide. Clearly, hydrogen is less of a pollutant in the air because it emits little tail pipe pollution. Engineers at the University of Leeds are working on a project keeping hydrogen in mind. They are developing an energy efficient, environmental-friendly hydrogen production system but with a difference. They are trying to extract hydrogen from waste materials. These materials can be vegetable oil or the glycerol by-product of bio-diesel. They are aspiring for the high purity hydrogen-based fuel that could be utilized for large-scale power production. They are also developing hydrogen cells for laptops or other gadgets. A grant of over £400k has been awarded to the University by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) within a consortium of 12 institutions known as SUPERGEN Sustainable Hydrogen Delivery. Leave a Comment Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel, Waste Energy
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Hydrogen From Waste Materials
Hydrogen From Waste Materials
Environmentalists are continuously searching for green and clean fuel. Until now they have been putting a lot of energy and talent into hydrogen fuels because when hydrogen is burned, the only emission it makes is water vapor. So it is a great advantage that burning of hydrogen doesn’t produce carbon dioxide. Clearly, hydrogen is less of a pollutant in the air because it emits little tail pipe pollution. Engineers at the University of Leeds are working on a project keeping hydrogen in mind. They are developing an energy efficient, environmental-friendly hydrogen production system but with a difference. They are trying to extract hydrogen from waste materials. These materials can be vegetable oil or the glycerol by-product of bio-diesel. They are aspiring for the high purity hydrogen-based fuel that could be utilized for large-scale power production. They are also developing hydrogen cells for laptops or other gadgets. A grant of over £400k has been awarded to the University by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) within a consortium of 12 institutions known as SUPERGEN Sustainable Hydrogen Delivery. Leave a Comment Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Fuel, Waste Energy
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SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production
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, who is the lead Sandia project engineer, shares his enthusiasm about SunCatchers, “The four new dishes are the next-generation models of the original SunCatcher system. Six first-generation SunCatchers built over the past several years at the NSTTF have been producing up to 150KW of grid-ready electrical power during the day. Every part of the new system has been upgraded to allow for a high rate of production and cost reduction.” Leave a Comment Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
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SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production
Comprehensive Alternative Energy Events Calendar
We recently revamped our events page to include a google calendar to help you all keep up with upcoming conferences, shows and workshops that promote energy alternatives and provide networking opportunities for all of you involved in the industry. If you know of any upcoming events/conferences that we have missed, please feel free to submit the details here. We hope these events will continue to help raise awareness and promote the clean energy industry for a brighter, more sustainable future! Leave a Comment Future Energy, Industry, Politics
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Comprehensive Alternative Energy Events Calendar
Solar Lanterns for Sub-Saharan Africans
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. Now the government has installed solar panels in the village and the residents are having electricity for the first time. Similarly someone is thinking about people living in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is said to be the least electrified region in the world. To a rational mind the task seems daunting. The mind will think about infrastructure, finance, technical know-how, professionals etc. But an imaginative mind will think of bypassing all this and think about reality and what works without the essentials. A Kansas State University student is doing such kind of thinking. He is combining engineering and nature to design a more affordable and more sustainable lighting source for those souls living without electricity. Leave a Comment Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power
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UAVs to be Powered by Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
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 alternative energy technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) When we think about the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) we think of saving human resource, undoubtedly the most precious resource of any nation. But UAVs have some drawbacks too. They can’t fly to the far and distant places because after traveling certain distance an aircraft needs refueling. And here we face the disadvantage of UAVs. They can’t refuel. But if they utilize solar energy they can travel more and work more effectively in enemy’s territory. The Air Force is thinking of using Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future. Then they can fly for a longer duration of time without refueling. Leave a Comment Inventions, Solar Power, Transportation
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Ethanol Industry Loses Pioneer
The renewable fuel industry received a jolt in the form of Kathy Bryan’s death. She was the founder of BBI International, a global bio fuels consulting and publishing company. She is considered to be a pioneer for the ethanol-based bio fuel industry. In the early 80s when very few people knew about ethanol as a viable alternative fuel she and her family operated a small ethanol plant. She worked for the creation of the Minnesota Ethanol Commission and became its first Chair, where she was instrumental in formulating the state’s aggressive ethanol policy, a program so successful it came to be known as the “Minnesota Model”. As a board member of the Renewable Fuels Association she lobbied for ethanol at the national level, later on. Leave a Comment Biofuels, Ethanol, Industry
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