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The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, announced recently that the city will have 10% electricity from solar energy. Nicknamed „Solar A”, the mayor’s ambitious plan would develop the world’s largest solar installation.

Israel’s largest solar installation has been inaugurated Monday, marking the cooperation between China and Israel in the clean energy field.
According to official estimates, the solar project will generate up to 85,000 kilowatts of electricity per year. It was built by the Chinese company Suntech Power Holdings and was incorporated in the Israel’s [...]

Concrete could be used for thermal energy storage, according to researchers from Arkansas University. They have won a prize worth 770,000 dollars from the U.S. Department of Energy, within a programme for supporting the projects of cheap solar energy accumulation.
Solar panels are used to pull the heat that to be stored than in concrete. [...]

Hawaii will be the electric cars paradise until 2012, said the Electric Company representatives. The battery charging will be made through a “intelligence” network of chargers.
The network’s project uses the latest technologies in the field of electric transport, coupled with a Internet network aimed to follow up the few tens of thousands of rechargeable [...]

The world’s first chlorophyll organic battery was created by professor Chungpin Hovering Liao of National Formosa University in Taiwan. To power up, this amazing battery can use any liquid, even urine. The battery starts providing power in only 10 seconds of being doused with liquid.
Besides its advantages, the battery has a disadvantage : it only [...]

A professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, named Hansjürg Leibundgut, said that he will start the construction of a apartment block equipped with carbon free technology. The apartments will contain cooling, heating and solar energy systems.  These systems are different from those of private homes.
The entire apartment block will run on [...]

Recently, researchers have created a news method that could increase the efficiency of solar cells. The new material that they have created could capture every color of the rainbow.
In comparison with other materials, which catch a small fraction of the potential energy and a small range of light frequencies, the new material can capture all [...]

If you ever go in India, on the Delhi streets you’ll see many rickshaws with pedals. Many rickshaws are driven by migrants from poor states, the old rickshaw is named now Soleckshaw, because is powered by the sun.
The new Soleckshaw, can be pedaled or run off of a 36 volt battery that is charged [...]

This is an amazing news, because i never heard that an individual to make at home biodiesel from algae. His name is Charlie Trafford and for many years he make biodiesel from cooking oil, but now he decided to change the source, and to make biodiesel from algae.

A company named Pepperidge Farm situated in Bloomfield, CT bakery, opened United States’ largest fuel cell plant. This plant is about 1.2 MW and will provide 57 percent of the 260,000 square foot facility’s power.
In 2006, the company Pepperidge Farm’s opened a 250 kW plant and 70 percent of the bakery’s power will [...]