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Terra-Gen Power LLC, a company specialized in renewable energy, has recently inaugurated the place where will be built the world’s largest wind power site. It will be located in central California and the project will generate about 1,550 megawatts of wind power.

With the support of investment group ArcLight Capital, Terra-Gen hopes this wind farm, that will use turbines from Denmark’s Vestas and General Electric Co, to provide electricity for 1.1 million people since 2011 and to create over 3,000 green jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

A group of MIT scientists headed by Professor of materials science and engineering Yoel Fink, have developed a new multifunctional material that carries both electricity and light. The fibers could be used to create biomedical devices, smart textiles that monitor the body or structural sensors that are able to detect even the smallest stresses on a structure.

The MIT team created this new fiber from heat sensitive and light sensitive materials. Then they added piezoelectric functionality to convert mechanical changes in shape to electric signals and vice versa. Read the rest of this entry »

Companies around the world are trying to find solutions to make electric vehicles attractive but so far there hasn’t been a charging speed war among those.

It seems that the competition already starts because one of the biggest companies in Japan called JFE Engineering now claims it has developed a quick charger that apparently needs just three minutes to get your car’s battery from zero to 50 percent and 30 minutes for a 80% charge. Read the rest of this entry »

According to scientists, traditional solar panels are able catch just about 15% of the sun’s rays. But now, a company that focuses on the production and development of high efficiency thin film photovoltaics, called RoseStreet Labs Energy Inc. (RSLE), founded a new way to increase that efficiency using mirrors and even the shaping them like origami.

They’ve developed solar panels that can increase the total efficiency above 35percent. The company’s thin film solar panel includes integrates three separate layers of PV cells into one panel and each layer captures a different part of the sun’s spectrum. Read the rest of this entry »

Glenn Old, an Australian inventor, has recently developed a new interesting device that is able to convert water into fuel. He has been working with a group of American engineers to design the device that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save fuel.

Called the HHO generator, the device generates enough hydrogen reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent and to increase fuel efficiency by up to 60 percent. The generator is a simple device that could converts water from H2O into a gas called HHO, this gas having two parts oxygen and one part hydrogen. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile network providers are trying their level best to connect even the most remote locations on the planet with the rest of the world. However, in places like rural Africa nine out of ten people don’t have access to electricity, which means that they’ve to get their cellphones charged in villages that either have access to the grid or have to use diesel generators for the same. Read the rest of this entry »

FTL Solar has created a lightweight tensile fabric with integrated thin film solar panels that is capable of shading your deck while powering your home. Originally designed as easily deployable canopies for military applications, FTL’s solar products are now available now for solar parking lot shades, rooftop building installations, and small and large solar tent structures. The solar fabric could even act as a shading for your sunny deck, and since it’s a fabric it’s easy to install without any heavy duty mounting hardware.

FTL has two main solar products – the Powermod 285 and the Powermod 1200, which are rated at 285 W and 1200 W, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists at the Kyoto Institute of Technologybhave developed a new solar cell, capable of producing energy from ultraviolet, infrared and visible light. The research team lead by associate professor Saki Sonoda, hopes that this new cell will lead to the development of highly efficient photovoltaic cells that can be single-junction rather than the more conventional multi-junction.

These new photovoltaic cells were made by ‘doping’ gallium nitride (GaN – a wide bandgap transparent composite semiconductor), with a 3d transition metal such as manganese. Using a single junction cell, these new PV modules will be able to absorb all light, making it an efficient way to convert electricity. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »