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Luxgen, a Taiwanese company, has unveiled at the Dubai International Auto Show a new all-electric MPV that according to the company, it will the world’s first all-electric 7-passenger MPV. Read the rest of this entry »
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a Singaporean company will launch this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the world’s first portable desktop hydrogen generator.
Called the HYDROFILL, the device plugs into a power supply, a small wind turbine or a solar panel and automatically extracts hydrogen from its water tank. Read the rest of this entry »
For example products like soaps are produced from high grade glycerin, but huge quantities of crude glycerin is simply disposed as waste. For this reason, Glycos Biotechnologies Inc. is trying to commercializing glycerin-gobbling microorganisms created by researchers at Rice University. Read the rest of this entry »
Mercedes-Benz is planning to launch this year plug-in hybrid variant of S-Class, having great aerodynamic properties and improvements in its weight, which coupled with the hybrid drivetrain, allow the car to emit less than 100g/km of CO2 and boast a fuel efficiency of 80mpg. Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists at the Biotechnology Foundations Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have developed a new technique to increase biofuel production from tobacco plants.
Researchers claim that tabacco can produce biofuel more efficiently than other agricultural crops. A new study shows that most of the oil is typically found in the seeds and tobacco seeds being composed of about 40 percent oil per dry weight. Read the rest of this entry »
In November 2009 a wind turbine complex on the Zhemo Mountain in the outskirts of Dali makes China the world’s third largest wind power producer.
According to Shi Lishan, vice director of the National Energy Administration’s New Energy Department the giant wind turbine complex will generate about 20 gigawatts this year. After the Germany and United States, China will surpass Spain and become the world’s third biggest wind power producer. Read the rest of this entry »
Dale Vince, Britain’s richest green entrepreneur and the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity (an energy provider which invests profits into wind turbines) aims to break the land speed record in an all-electric vehicle called the Nemesis. Read the rest of this entry »
All around the world you can hear that Ferrari turns green, that they have already mounted some solar panels over their factory but no one really saw any actions towards reducing fuel consumption.
The Italian magazine Quattroroute wants to prove us wrong here. They just announced that Ferrari is building a hybrid car based on the 599 GBT Fiorano. The hybrid is announced for the Geneva Auto Show in March. Read the rest of this entry »
Avacos Solar helped the integration of 2 great newly developed technologies from Sanyo Canada Inc and DuROCK Alfacing International Inc. On one side Sanyo has developed a HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer) double bifacial solar photovoltaic module which has a 30% more efficiency than normal photovoltaic cells, while on the other hand DuROCK has developed a new Tio-Coating reflective roof membrane. Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a glitter size photovoltaic cell that has the efficiency of a normal silicon cell. Using about 100 times less silicon, the new cells are able to produce the same amount of electricity as conventional solar cells. Read the rest of this entry »