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Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows Into Green Energy Collectors

A team of researchers from Michigan State University managed to develop a fully transparent solar panels – a breakthrough that could lead to countless applications in architecture, as well as other fields such as mobile electronics or the automotive industry. Previous attempts to create such a device have been made, but results were never satisfying enough, with low efficiency and …

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MPPT vs PWM Charge Controllers – Comparison

In this article we will explain MPPT vs PWM Charge Controllers Comparison. At first glance, a charge controller may not seem so important. Charging batteries is a big part of an off-grid system, but can’t you just wire your renewable energy source straight into your batteries and be done with it? The answer is yes, but …

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Wave Energy – A new way of generating power from tides

The search for alternative energy sources in the age of climate change has overlooked tidal energy: a vast and unexploited worldwide resource. For three decades now, tidal lagoon schemes have been recommended as an economically and environmentally attractive alternative to tidal barrages. More recently, two proposals for tidal lagoons in Swansea Bay, Wales have emerged …

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Solar Energy – Solar Wind Downdraft Tower Technology unique in the Market today

Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. is the innovator and creator behind the only hybrid solar-wind technology in the market today named Solar Wind Downdraft Tower. The simplicity of Solar Wind Energy’s revolutionary solution lies in its ability to harness the natural power of a downdraft created when water is introduced to hot dry air within …

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Geothermal Energy – Geothermal Energy in Iceland

Iceland’s position atop the separating European and American tectonic plates has created a unique and savage landscape. The combination of fire and ice created global travel chaos in 2010 when the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull led to thousands of cancelled flights across the world. As the world watches the quivering Bardarbunga volcano amongst fears of a …

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Gigafactory – How Tesla’s battery could change everything

Serial entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to making waves in the technology sector. Earlier this year he decided to allow anyone to, “in good faith,” make use of the automaker’s patent portfolio without fear of being named in a patent lawsuit. The goal, he wrote in a blog entry on Tesla’s …

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Clean Energy – IFW contends used tires for Clean Energy

IFW Recycling Corporation sees a clear opportunity in the polluted skies by introducing reusable clean energy. According to CNN, inhabitants of Beijing are “choking as smog levels hit heavy or even worse levels.” Ironically, China is simultaneously one of the world’s biggest contributors to environmental pollution and largest producers of green & clean energy technology. …

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