Heating water could be a greener affair in your home, if you turn to the EUROSTAR Solar Water Heaters by SOLE that were displayed at the Intersolar 2010 in Munich, Germany. These water heaters are eco-friendly and are environmentally safe, super-efficient and reliable. Installing them isn’t rocket science, and you can fit one all by yourself. The EUROSTAR also has the lowest possible installation height, meaning that it can be mounted on tiled roofs without breaking, drilling and hammering, keeping away the mess, noise and damage.

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Intimidating though this may sound, future wind turbines could have blades larger than the London Eye itself. And this isn’t a way to scare the neighborhood. An increased blade size on wind turbines increases efficiency, resulting in a maximized power output. A colossal wind turbine like this could soon find its roots off the shore of Britain, standing around 500ft tall with a diameter of 475ft in the next two years. Christened as the Britannia, this project will generate around 10 megawatt and could be one of the many wind turbines of its type.

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The CultofMac.com no longer depends on the energy drained grid to power it up. It’s now using the help of the sun to do so instead. The website has turned 100% solar powered, using a greener and more environment-loving host, AISO.net. AISO.net operates the worlds only 100% solar powered data center, to which CultofMac.com is hooked on. AISO.net shuns the use of coal and oil, and buys no carbon offsets, instead choosing to squeeze the sun of its scorching hot energy, using solar panels.

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Now the Australians want a radio telescope, and not just any radio telescope, they’ve been hoping for the world’s most powerful radio telescope with a discovery potential ten thousand times more than the existing ones. So, the Rudd Government came up with a smart, green and somewhat expensive way to power up this giant telescope. The government plans to invest $47.3 million in solar energy and geothermal heat energy projects that will power it up. This, according to the government folks, will help cut power costs by a sweet $5 million annually.

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Why use gasoline to power up a garbage truck, when the stuff it’s carrying can power it up too! And that’s exactly what these trucks use to power up in California, garbage. Around 500 of these trucks operated by Waste Management Inc. run on liquid natural gas obtained from garbage instead of exploiting diesel resources to carry our trash around. So how is this fuel procured? All that rotting refuse from homes in San Francisco and Oakland been thrown away at the Altamont landfill since early 1980 emit methane gas, which, since November, has been sucked into tubes and sent across to a purifying facility, where it is converted into liquid natural gas.

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Abu Dhabi is all set to exploit a major chunk of the sun’s energy. And how are they planning to do so? By building a colossal concentrating solar power plant! Christened with the Arabic term for the “sun”, the “Shams” is a 100-megawatt project, of which, 40% is owned by Spain’s Abengoa Solar and French oil giant Total SA. Masdar. The remaining 60% of it will be owned by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company. Construction of this solar power plant will began this year. So what makes this one different? 768 parabolic mirrors spread across an area of 741 acres of desert land in Madinat Zayed.

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Copenhagen hopes to go carbon neutral by the year 2025, and in an effort to do so, the city has come up with a novel view way to spread the green around, this time on rooftops. A future aerial view of Copenhagen will see a lot more green than today. The city has adopted a green roof policy, wherein all new buildings with roof slopes of less than 30 degrees will need to go green. Currently, the city of Copenhagen has 20,000 square meters of flat roof surfaces. Imagine all these and future projects going green!

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Dreaming about a greener future seems to be the right thing to do today, and everyone’s trying real hard to change this dream into a reality. Well, here’s something more we’d like to see in the future. A global switch to renewable energy could make the world greener and at the same time create an $18 trillion energy industry by 2050 and 8.5 million jobs by the year 2030. Currently, out of the 8.7 million jobs globally in the energy industry, only 2.4 million have people employed in the renewable energy industry.

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Hawaii, the land of surfing and the beautiful Hawaiian guitar melodies, is all set to receive some power, from deep beneath the sea. Currently, Hawaii imports energy, and has plans to generate its own electricity, with wind farms on islands like Molokai and Lanai. Well here’s the hitch. How does this power reach the beautiful land of Hawaii? Undersea cables come to the rescue. 400MW of wind farms will be set up on these islands, which will then be transferred to the island of Oahu, the place where majority of the state’s population lives, with undersea cables.

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Water desalinization was unheard of in the United Kingdom, until now. London now plays host to the first water desalinization plant in UK. Every city has its share of problems, and London has its water woes too. So, to solve these, the Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works plant has been put into place, to convert the salty Thames water into a more potable and drinkable water source. This will quench the thirst of 1 million Londoners. The plant, situated in East London will be operated by Thames Water. At a cost of £270, this plant will make use of renewable energy to power up, with bio-diesel from used cooking oil.

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Why build solar power plants back here on earth, when the moons unoccupied? That’s exactly what some Japanese guys at the Shimizu Corporation back here on earth thought about. And this is just one of the six megaprojects earthlings have been dreaming about. A Luna Ring, a lunar solar power plant, 6,800 miles of solar panels around the moons equator tops the list of these gigantic and colossal mega projects. And who’s going up there to build these? Robots! With the use of rocks and dust found on the moon, transporting raw materials up there will be a bit easier.

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Electricity producing trees are unheard of in our world today. Leave alone a bonsai. Well, the Electree though is somewhat inspired from those little miniature trees. This one produces electricity though, and can power up and charge your mobile phone! The Electree’s little leaves are in fact photovoltaics, which soak in light energy to charge up your mobile phone. Don’t try watering this one though; you might just end up soaking it unnecessarily. The Electree uses 42 cells, equivalent to an entire surface of 2178 cm².

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Kites producing energy seems pretty unheard off. And that too a whole 1MW of it! Well, that’s exactly what wind power company, Makani Power are looking forward to. Based in California, the firm is developing prototypes of its energy harvesting kite, which when sent up in the skies, will soak in energy that will be used to generate electricity. Raising $20m (£13.7m), the firm will use large-wing kites that will float through the air at high altitudes and will harvest much more energy than the usual wind turbine.

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Phoenix will play host to 280-megawatts of power, harnessed from none other than the ever-generous sun! The Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) announced that the world’s largest solar power plant will be built 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, in Gila Bend, Arizona. The solar concentrating plant, or solar plant, what will be known as the Solana Generating Station, when built in future, will serve 70000 APS customers. The power plant will produce enough energy to lighten up these homes when working on full capacity.

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Solar power plants are springing up faster than ever these days. Italy’s power plant being built has grabbed a whole lot of attention lately. Well, its time for Taiwan to now bask in the glory of the sun. A 4.6MW solar power plant is currently being built at the Kaohsiung County in Taiwan. Taipower, a state-run utility firm is currently in talks with Taiwan Sugar Corp to lease the land it owns for the project.

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