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Monday, April 21st, 2008The Mississippi River could be a huge source of power only if we would know how to harvest energy from its waves. The solution comes from Free Flow Power Corp, a New England-based company, that plans to build thousands of tiny electric turbines.
This a $3 billion project which consists of the installation of the small [...]
Wind Turbines To Be Built Far Offshore
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Earth is getting more and more polluted therefore we have to develop new technologies that will provide renewable energy that will eventually replace oil and coal. A good way is to build farms and wind turbines and if you thought that we don’t build more because of the costs or efficiency, then you were wrong.
The [...]
Green Vertical Farms In The New York City
Saturday, April 19th, 2008The New York magazine has had an interesting initiative with the purpose to improve the cleanliness of the New York City. They assigned four architects to came up with green structures that will be placed on the Canal Street and the most interesting idea came from Work AC.
Dan Wood, Work AC co-principal, thought that a [...]
Flexenclosure Replaces Diesel With Solar&Wind Power For Phone Base Stations
Friday, April 18th, 2008Mobile phone coverage can become energy efficient thanks to a brilliant idea for a Swedish company called Flexenclosure. According to the company, in Africa you can find about 40,000 base stations powered by diesel engines and each station needs 5200 gallons of oil which means about 210,000,000 gallons yearly in order to be able to [...]
Cheaper And Lighter Photovoltaic Cells From Global Solar
Friday, April 18th, 2008Global Solar Energy has been testing photovoltaic for the last 11 years and finally they announced the development of thin-film flexible photovoltaic cells that can produce solar panels very cheap, at one third to one half of the current prices.
The company has opened a new 40-megawatt, 100,000 square foot factory last month, with a capacity [...]
