In the international solar race, it looks like Germany might be winning. The European nation generated a stunning 5.1 tWh in July, breaking all previously-set records. Oh, and that last record? Also set by Germany. So yeah, it's safe to say ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Solar Power
GIA released a comprehensive global report on Renewable Chemicals markets. Global market for Renewable Chemicals is projected to reach $66.1 billion by 2018, driven by spiraling petroleum prices, rising demand for eco-friendly products and ...
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We all remember our school textbooks, which had chapters dedicated to non-conventional sources of energy. Today, those sources play an important role in our lives at an age where we are desperately looking to reduce our dependence on fossil ...
Tags: non-conventional energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that ...
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GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the same raw material that ...
Tags: Granbio, Renewable Chemicals
Sometime soon you could be drinking your fruit smoothie from a plastic cup that started life as a pile of grass clippings. Moreover, these same kinds of cups also might end up as compost on your lawn. Scientists are working to reduce the ...
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently released a guide for designing light scoops—an innovative type of skylight designed by the LRC with funding from the New York State Energy Research and ...
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently released an interactive video that offers guidance about selecting and installing LED lighting. The video was designed for contractors, builders, electricians, ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Electrician
Xu Zhong, general manager, GD Solar and Walt Cheng, managing director, Greater China, DuPont Electronics & Communications signed a strategic cooperation agreement during the The Renewable Energy Industries Forum (REIF), organized by the ...
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8 Companies join forces with the European Commission to set up a Public-Private Partnership and accelerate the deployment of biobased products in Europe The European Commission proposed a €3.8 billion Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
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On 19 June at the 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 39) in Tampa, FL, scientist Myles Steiner at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported record energy conversion efficiency of ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Electrical, Electronics, cell
The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), a program of the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently released a new publication to aid owners and facility managers of ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
It is remarkable how much can be do for our planet just by recycling products and goods. It is a widely known fact that much of the natural resources of the earth have been depleted because of the unconcerned mining in the past century, ...
Tags: Metal Recycling
Biopac has announced its role in ECLIPSE, an international consortium, which has bagged a €5m funding in a bid to develop new packaging using natural materials. According to the UK-based developer and supplier of packaging and ...
Tags: Biopac, Packaging Project