According to the International Energy Agency’s ‘2011 World Energy Outlook’, every day, as the sun sets around the world, 1.3 billion people without electricity either live in darkness or expose their families to the ...
Tags: Ascent Solar, CIGS, Electrical&Electronics
A Little Wax Can Be a Big Safety Cushion It may be tempting to burn your candle all the way down, but leaving just ½ inch of wax can protect you from accidental glass breakage or a candle fire. Why? As a jar candle nears the ...
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The orphanage as part of the New Hope Church of Traverse City’s mission trip, will receive tPOD1s during the third week of June. The partnership between the church and Tellurex was formed for a chance meeting between Tellurex Program ...
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SolarAid has been selected to receive a £400,000 Global Impact Award from Google’s Global Impact Challenge. The charity says the Award, which is decided by a panel of judges including Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Richard ...
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All winter long, your car took a beating. There was salt; there was sand; there was that time you accidentally drove into a snow bank. Liquids are now dripping from your car's underside onto your driveway, and they're not water. Rings of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
European airlines and airports are facing fundamental changes: The increasing popularity of low-cost carriers and airlines from the Middle East is changing the competitive landscape. Leisure and business travelers' strong price sensitivity ...
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Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday its technical team developed a solar lantern with high powered LED lights that also operate as a charger for small electronic appliances, which are especially carried by ...
Tags: LED Lights, Panasonic
The GravityLight was created in an effort to wean Africa and other countries off of the use of unsafe and inefficient fuels like kerosene. In a project that has taken more than 5 years to perfect, this gravity powered light uses plastic ...
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With their low prices and ease of use, aerosol fire sprays are a tempting purchase. But the sprays are no substitute for a fire extinguisher. In fact, in Consumer Reports' tests the sprays sometimes made a grease fire flare up, which could ...
Tags: Fire Spray, Fire Extinguisher, Security, Protection
This 19 year old Kenyan designer new that there was a better alternative than kerosene. In Africa kerosene lamps are still used in many areas and cause great harm to children and adults in rural African villages. Evan Wadongo created the ...
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State oil companies China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, and China National Petroleum Corp. over the weekend said they would boost supplies of oil products to central Sichuan province, following a major earthquake Saturday morning ...
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State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) signed a joint venture agreement Sunday with France's Total and Japan's Idemitsu, Cosmo Oil, Marubeni and Mitsui for a new condensate refinery to be built in Qatar at Ras Laffan Industrial City. Under the ...
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Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas entity Pertamina has lined up gasoline term imports of 8.9 million-9.1 million barrels for May, down from total imports of 9.48 million-9.68 million barrels in April, trade sources said this week. Of ...
Panasonic is planning to donate up to 100,000 of its solar LED lanterns to people without electricity in several countries in Africa and Asia by 2018, the 100th anniversary of the company's founding. The initiative, dubbed the 100 ...
April 16, 2013 - We’ve been educated on the importance of modifying our individual consumer behaviour and advocating for sustainable energy policies. Now, crowdfunding offers all of us a new way to protect our shared environment and ...