Research and Markets, the market research specialist, has put together a report about renewable energy in which it claims that “eventually renewable energies will dominate the world’s energy supply system. There is no real alternative...
Archive - September 2009
A silicon photovoltaic company unveiled yesterday two technologies for multi-crystalline silicon solar cells aimed at manufacturers striving to reach 18 percent efficiency. 1366 Technologies’ Self-Aligned Cell (SAC) architecture promises to...
Everytime I hear the expression ‘algae fuel’ get mentioned in the press, an alarm bell inside my head goes off. This time, quite literally. The latest exciting algae development comes from Los Alamos National Laboratory, a...
The environment pages of the Christian Science Monitor brings a question from a reader that I thought echoes a dilemma that many other people may have. The reader writes in to find out whether he’d be better off subsidizing his...
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it could become a reality. According to a report in Alternative Energy, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and IHI Corporation are planning to design and develop a $21bn Space-based solar farm that would...
