Category Archives: Alternative Energy
Japan has more reasons to be very ‘proud’ of. The Aeon Group has created the country’s largest commercial monument – the Aeon Lake Town Shopping Center. It will have two complexes, Mori or forest managed by Aeon Retail Co. Ltd. and Kaze or wind managed by Aeon Mall Co. Ltd and in between the two there will be an artificial lake which will be three times the size of Tokyo’s famous “Shinobazu no Ike” pond and will also designed for flood control.
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Every trend has a season and now it is the go-green season. As more companies are getting fully aware of the earth’s depleting ozone and the dangers of economical downfall, bigger companies are investing time and effort on developing the new found alternative source of energy. Ironically, the solar power. The Lauren Engineers and Constructors signed a contract with Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for a new 75 MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant located near Indiantown. When ready, it will be the second largest solar thermal power plant in the world and the largest solar thermal plant outside California and also the first hybrid solar facility in the world to connect to an existing combined-cycle power plant.
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When one man in the United States broke all odds and raced against wind to set a record of 116mph in his Iron Duck Vehicle ten years ago, another fellow across the sea in UK stood interested. Now, he has accomplished his dream by racing his wind powered Greenbird and breaking Bob Schumacher’s speed reaching 126.1 mph in Ivanpah Lake, Nevada. British engineer Richard Jenkins’ Greenbird is a carbon fibre composite vehicle that uses wind (and nothing else) for power with the wing bearings and wheel unit in metal.
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The US may have messed up a bit of accounts and pulled the world into the quicksand but it also has a few things to be very proud of. The most important one is that about 60 percent of the new generating capacity added in the US last year revolves around new renewables including solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy devices. Travis Bradford who heads up the Prometheus Institute that conducts research noticed this achievement.
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The Solar Decathlon Wet Shower concept is something new that a bunch of the industrial design students, architects and engineers came up with. This design, approved by the ADA, is a concept for all range of users with features including bamboo or wooden floor with a base of steel frame, Tera LED lights, Kohler sink and faucets, Kohler Water Tiles, accessible fabric storage and retractable showerhead.
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It’s certified. Only the smart ones can save our planet. What else would you say for MIT professor Dan Nocera’s speech at the Aspen Environment Forum where he gave a vision of ‘the new energy economy with an assertion that our homes will be our power plants and our fuel stations, powered by sunlight and water’. He said that for this we will need like 16TW of energy production else even 2050, the cut off by cutting out a lot of energy waste now, will seem a dream. So, he is going to unveil next week the solver of all our problems – cheap, efficient, manufacturable electrolyzer made from cobalt and potassium phosphate.
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There were the wind mills… now there will be more of the wind mills only in a more fashionable and modern looking way. The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) is a wind turbine that is excellent for places like farms or windy remote areas. The turbine floats in the air while tethered to the ground and removes any obstacles related to placement. It rotates around a horizontal axis wherever the wind is blowing and generates electrical energy, which then passes down the tether to a transformer and then transferred to the electricity power grid. Long, but useful, technique.
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When gaming gets really serious you start thinking on a higher level of intellect. Like for instance these two gamers who found a brand new, cost effective, environmental loving alternative for your Nintendo Wii console. They have found a way to use the sun’s energy to power the Wii, a television and also a set of speakers. The TV and speakers will need around 130 watts to operate and the Wii will need between 40-45 watts. Under direct sunlight this the box with solar panels to which the devices can be connected, can get from 6 to 8 hours of game time.
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Out of around 200 professional recording studios in Hawaii, one place called Maui is soon going to create waves as it boasts of a recording studio running completely on solar power. The Grace Recording Studio owner Bob Plotnik said that not only it this good for the environment, it also has a huge cost savings, about 500 dollars a month, along with the state and federal tax credits. For six months, Grace Recording Studio has been operating with the help of 48 solar panels that produce 7,000 watts of power.
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The Sunseeker II designed by aircraft mastermind Eric Raymond will be launched in April 5 after the e-flight expo. This one will feature more surface area for solar cells, wing modifications and lithium polymer batteries to improve performance that the Sunseeker I that was launched in 1990 with 2.5-horsepower and that crossed the US in 21 flights with 121 hours in the air. The Sunseeker II will rely on batteries for the takeoff and solar power to operate and glide during flight.
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