Your smartphone can help you increase your gas mileage
September 25, 2011 by James
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There’s an app for pretty much everything these days. And now there’s three new apps that can actually help you increase your gas mileage and decrease the amount you spend at the gas station. MyMPG – this app uses the iPhone accelerometer technology to tell you if you are driving too aggressively and wasting Related posts: Mileage From Megawatts: Study Finds Enough Electric Capacity To ‘Fill Up’ Plug-in Vehicles Hybrid sales increase in March 2011 Lots of questions, and only some answers, about the Bloom Box
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Natural Gas to Liquids Plant coming to the U.S.
September 21, 2011 by James
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South African based energy and chemicals company Sasol announced last week that they are considering the feasibility of building a natural gas to liquid (GTL) plant in southwestern Louisiana. If built, it would be the first GTL plant in the western hemisphere. What a GTL plant gets you is the ability to use natural gas Related posts: Solar / natural gas power plant hybrids Science News: Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars GreenFuel Technologies to build algae to fuel plant in Europe
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Toyota announces pricing on plug-in hybrid Prius
September 17, 2011 by admin
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Toyota has announced pricing and availability for it’s new plug-in hybrid Prius. The plug-in will be available in two different models – the base model, which will have an MSRP of $32,000, and the Advanced, with an MSRP of $39,525. Both models will probably qualify for a $2,500 federal tax credit. It’ll take Related posts: Plug in Prius: First test drives Toyota plans U.S. sales of plug-in Prius by 2012 Nissan Leaf pricing announced – about $27,000 in US (after tax credits)
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$150m load guarantee to 1366 Technologies to drive down the cost of solar panels
September 11, 2011 by James
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week a new package of $231m to support the development of solar wafer technology, offshore wind, and geothermal energy. The largest initiative was for a $150m loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies – they’ve been developing a process that uses molten silicon to dramatically reduce the cost and the Related posts: A cheaper way to make silicon solar cells from 1366 Technologies Solyndra snags $535 million federal loan guarantee and boosts performance of its cylindrical solar panels IBM pioneers process to turn waste into solar energy
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$150m load guarantee to 1366 Technologies to drive down the cost of solar panels
Hurricane Irene and wind farms – no problem!
September 7, 2011 by James
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As Hurricane Irene tracked its way up across the eastern seaboard last week, there was a good deal of concern as to how the various wind farms in its path would fair. A number of different wind farms from Delaware to Maine were exposed to Irene, and very few problems were reported. CleanEnergy.org contacted eight Related posts: Two new wind farms in Missouri and Texas go live UK announces world’s largest wind farms Wind farms sprout in western New York
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MIT designs solar cells that use heat instead of light
August 7, 2011 by James
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A team of researchers at MIT have come up with a new twist on an old idea – generating electricity from heat. But instead of using boilers and turbines, they’re using specialized solar cells that use the heat to create infrared light at a specific frequency best suited to the cell. While thermal photovoltaic cells Related posts: Solar cells capture heat and light PETE solar cells generate electricity from both light and heat Laser textured solar cells will reflect less light and be more efficient
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Iowa gets 20% of its electricity from wind power
August 6, 2011 by admin
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There’s a report out from the American Wind Energy Association that states that Iowa, as of the second quarter of 2011, gets 20% of its electricity needs from wind power. Iowa hit this milestone with the addition of a new 594 megawatt wind farm from MidAmerican Energy that’s located near Adair, Iowa. Related posts: Iowa adding to Wind Power Portfolio Iowa Wind farm deal near completion The US now #1 in wind power
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Vermont’s largest solar farm begins generating electricity
July 28, 2011 by admin
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The largest solar farm in the state of Vermont has just begun generating electricity. The new solar farm, located near Burlington, VT, was built on a 25 acre meadow and consists of 9,000 solar panels. The panels are mounted on 382 trackers, which tilt the panels to follow the sun and generate more power (about Related posts: California to build ‘world’s largest’ solar farm Construction begins on new Michigan wind power farm Caithness Energy and General Electric to build largest U.S. wind farm in Oregon
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Cedar Creek II wind farm goes live with 250 megawatts capacity
July 13, 2011 by James
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A dedication ceremony for the recently completed Cedar Creek II wind farm was held today in Colorado. The new wind farm, which contains 123 wind turbines spread out over a 30,000 acre site, is located near the town of New Raymer, Colorado. It will generate 250 megawatts – enouigh to power about 75,000 homes. via: Related posts: APS dedicates New Mexico wind farm that will power 23,000 homes Two new wind farms in Missouri and Texas go live Duke Energy Wyoming wind farm brought online
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New efficiency record achieved for CIGS cells
May 20, 2011 by admin
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CIGS cells from EMPA Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have hit a new world record for CIGS flexible solar cells of 18.7 percent. Their new CIGS cells (copper, indium, gallium, (di)selenide) broke their own previous world record of 17.6 percent, which was achieved last June 2010. While this Related posts: CIGS thin film solar cell hits 19.9% efficiency – a record UCLA researchers develop low cost solution based method for creating CIGS solar cells New record – 42.8% solar cell efficiency achieved
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