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Saturday, May 24th, 2008StatoilHydro, a Norwegian oil company, will start building the first deepwater floating wind turbine. The construction will begin next year and it will be placed off Norway’s coast. StatoilHydro will invest about $80 million in the test project called Hywind.
The Largest College-Based Solar Farm Is In Florida
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Florida, as we all know, has plenty of sunlight, most of the time, but unlike Californians, which developed many projects in order to use it, they seem to have just forgotten about the enormous sunpower potential they have. The ‘Sunshine State’ has finally awaken recently and decided to build the world’s largest college-based solar farm.
Rock Port City Is 100% Wind Powered
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008The community from Rock Port, Missouri is celebrating their accomplishment of being ‘100% wind powered’. The energy comes from four wind turbines built on agricultural lands that are estimated to produce 16 million kilowatt hours. The town is expected to use 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity this year.
New Class Of Hydrogen Storage Materials
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Hui Wu, a scientist from the University of Maryland collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to discover a new class of materials that can store large amounts of hydrogen into its crystal structure for later release.
Nanowire Superhighway For Thin-Film Solar Cells
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego, developed a new method that could lead to the thin-film solar cells of the future, with highly increased performance. Researchers spiked regular solar cells with nanowires that serve as electron superhighways for electrons resulted from the photons of light.
These ’superhighways’ directly take the electrons to the [...]
