Article Archive for December 2008
Just last week EEStor, the secretive battery company, was granted a US patent for their electric-energy storage unit, of which no one outside the company has seen so much as a working prototype. The patent …
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In July, Nobel laureate and former vice president Al Gore issued a challenge: generate 100 percent of American electricity from truly clean sources that do not contribute to global warming, and do it …
Panasonic Corporation and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. have agreed on the terms of Panasonic’s acquisition of Sanyo. Panasonic is launching a public tender offer at ¥131 per share of common stock and ¥1,310 per share …
The Marine Current Turbine SeaGen project in the UK, is the world’s first commercial scale tidal stream turbine. Today it has been reported that the strong tidal flows of Strangford Lough have enabled the turbine …
Disused for more than 30 years, a Dutch mine that once yielded polluting coal has been revived as a source of greener energy, heating household radiators using warm water flooding its abandoned shafts.
Claimed by its …
On 30th January 2009, Japan Airlines (JAL) is slated to be the first airline to carry out a demo flight using a biofuel refined from the energy crop camelina. The flight will test a blend …
The US is currently going through it’s biggest ever drop in driving, moving away from driving cars in favour of other forms of transportation, according to a new Brookings Institution report. There is no question …
Shocking as it sounds given the meteoric rise of the past few years, oil prices are back to where they were more than four years ago. This puts that back down below the price at …
Sorry about the terrible pun, but it does look like physicist Steven Chu will be named President-elect Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary. Democratic officials close to the transition team say that Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize …
Edinburgh-based Aquamarine Power, which claims to be the only UK firm developing wave and tidal energy generation devices simultaneously, has made a “significant investment” in Ocean Flow Energy, from North Shields. Aquamarine Power has increased its …
