Nov
5
This revolutionary wind/solar energy tower is 2,235 ft high and 1,200 ft width.
Mexico is making history with this hybrid solar & wind energy tower. Have you ever seen this?
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 the confines of the Company’s patented tower structure.
Oct
13
The power design wall generates 80% electricity compared with traditional solar panes.
Wouldn’t it be beautiful to generate electricity with solar facades designed with a print?
Through a combination of graphical techniques with solar cell technology, Dutch Solar Design succeeded in generating all facets of energy.
The yield of the aesthetic facade elements is about 80 percent of normal solar panels.
Mar
13
In response to worsening air pollution problems in many of Europe’s largest cities, Barcelona (Spain) and Munich (Germany) have been moved to action. In Barcelona’s case, voluntarily, and in Munich’s case, as the result of a court order.
From 2018 there will be bans on diesel cars in Munich.
The court order in Munich follows legal action taken by Transport and Environment’s German member DUH to force action on Bavaria’s breaching of EU air pollution limits in some locations.
Mar
6
Gates: We need an energy miracle
Bill Gates is launching $1 billion fund, called Breakthrough Energy Ventures, to invest in new forms of clean energy.
He said that there is an urgent need for “high risk” investments in breakthrough technologies for renewables.
In July 2016, Gates considered 2 billion. Read More
Feb
8
In Normandy (France) the first electric road has been build. In 2016, Colas announced four SolarRoad pilots which would be built in 2017.
Just a few weeks ago, the first solar roadway for cars opened in the French village of Tourouvre in Normandy.
Jan
6
With Hyperloop One, we will create a new means of transportation, keeping our region at the forefront of transportation technology and innovation
Hyperloop One has signed an agreement with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority that could see the firm’s technology applied in the UAE in a new feasibility study.
The Hyperloop concept is based on the idea of people traveling in autonomous pods from Dubai to Abu Dhabi in just 12 minutes (typically a ~2 hour drive). Read More
Dec
20
A worldwide survey had identified potential StEnSEA sites with a cumulative storage capacity of around 817 terawatt-hours.
Why not store energy In hollow tanks on the bottom of the sea? The German Fraunhofer Institute started a test with spherical storage tanks.
In November 2016, the first tank has been placed at the bottom of the Bodensee, near the German border with Switzerland.
Ultimately, the aim is to place the tanks in the area of offshore wind farms. But for now, the institute choose the lake because it is more practical for the tests. Read More
Sep
24
André Broessel’s Rawlemon: spherical glass solar device charger
Just as Thomas Edison said in 1931: “There’s enough solar energy hitting the earth every hour to replace all energy sources used globally in a year.”
But only 1% of energy used comes from the sun? Solar power is growing.
This green energy will soon be running engines 24/7. It will generate both power and air conditioning. Read More
Sep
21
Orison’s plug in home battery could help homeowners ditch the grid by connecting to an alternative energy source like solar or wind and saving money because of low rate energy prices
The new Orison plug and play home battery system, stores electricity when electricity rates are low, so the electricity can be used later to avoid paying the higher rates.
Best of all: this new system requires no installation like other home battery setups; you just plug it in and away you go. Read More
Aug
30
Circular building is more than reusing the existing structure. All added materials, such as the concrete tiles, furniture and the insulation material, are recycled products and materials.
How do you give four dated bunched offices a second life without wasting material? Simple: build circular.
Energy Company Liander did it.
We have seen it. And it’s an amazing ‘new’ future proof and circular building. Read More
Jul
25
During reel-out, the kite is fl ying figure-eight maneuvers at high speed (70 to 90 km/h). This creates a high traction force (3.1 kN at 7 m/s wind speed) which is converted into electricity by the drum and the connected 20 kW generator.
Kite Power by harnessing high altitude wind next step in Dutch Icon project ‘Afsluitdijk’.
Even NASA has started to work on airborne wind energy. This field is very new and has much room for innovation.
Flight testing with actual consistent measured power production is the next step.
That’s why art-innovator Daan Roosegaarde is going to install and light the kites at the Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands. Read More
Jun
29
the buoys are fully equipped with sensors which continuously monitor the performance of the various subsystems and surrounding ocean environment
Gibraltar is enjoying it’s wave power.
In 2015, Eco Wave Power started to build a 5 megawatt ocean power plant at the Gibraltar coast.
It’s now connected to the grid, providing 1 MW to the national grid which will be extended to 5 MW. Read More
May
27
Last week the German government reported that the Portugal produced so much renewable energy on a particularly sunny, windy Sunday that there was a power surplus.
In may 2016, Portugal ran for more than half a week without having to resort to fossil fuels.
Thanks to a big push toward solar, wind, and hydro power and a little nudge from the EU, for four days, Portugal produced enough clean, sustainable electricity to meet the needs of its people. Read More
May
11
Formic Acid is produced by using electricity. Wind farms or solar panels supply the power that is needed for the production of Formic Acid, thus it is completely carbon neutral.
It is coming: A city bus which is fueled by formic acid.
VDL and the Team Fast – a student team at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU / e) are developing the world’s first city bus that runs on formic acid. The bus is already operational. Read More
May
4
Aquion did come up with a breakthrough saltwater battery. It is environmentally friendly, cost effective and has a life cycle way beyond any other battery: up to 5,000 cycles.
The development of sustainable saltwater batteries enters the next level.
The American company Aquion Energy has received $ 33 million extra finance.
Previously, Bill Gates invested in Aquion Energy.
Aquion developed batteries that can store solar and wind energy to serve as backup for times when there is no wind nor sun. Saltwater batteries are not new, but the batteries from Aquion are special because they are using salt water as a conductor, instead of acids or bases.
Aquion has come up with a clever twist on a 200 year old salt water battery technology using:
They have come up with a breakthrough solution. It is environmentally friendly, cost effective and has a life cycle way beyond any other battery: up to 5,000 cycles
The startup — which was backed by Bill Gates and VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Foundation Capital — is making a low cost, modular grid battery made from basic materials like sodium and water.
The battery pairs a carbon anode with a sodium-based cathode, and a water-based electrolyte shuttles ions between the two electrodes during charging and discharging.
The technology was developed out of Carnegie Mellon University by founder and chief technology officer Jay Whitacre.
By using basic materials, Aquion is hoping its product is inexpensive enough to disrupt the current grid battery market.
Aquion’s CEO Scott Pearson:
“When the battery has been manufactured at a commercial scale for awhile, the price point of the battery could be $300 per kilowatt hour. That’s about a third of the cost of some of the more expensive lithium ion battery grid products.”
Want to read the specs? Click on this link
In June 2016, Aquion Energy has introduced the Aspen 24S, a 24-volt version of its award-winning Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI) battery.
The new product is designed for energy-intensive applications that use solar panels, such as off-grid solar-powered LED lighting, as well as small pumps and motors. It is also an ideal drop-in replacement for existing systems using 24-volt lead-acid batteries.
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May
2
Keith sayd that he had long been skeptical about the solar hype. ‘I was wrong’.
The solar hype is getting real. For a long time, Harvard professor David Keith was skeptical about solar energy. But now he admitted he was wrong.
Keith: “Solar energy is very cheap and it can change the future of the global energy supply within a decade.”
Apr
28
Airbourne wind energy to the world’s energy mix
This glider, called the ‘PowerPlane’ is a green energy turbine that extracts energy from the wind much more economically than conventional wind turbines.
PowerPlane systems convert wind power into mechanical power by having an autopilot-controlled glider plane creating pull on a tether by flying repetitive cross-wind patterns at an altitude of 300 to 600 meters. Read More
Apr
15
These high-efficiency solar panels could help generate instant energy in disaster areas
Rollable and large-scale flexible Solar Panels, called Roll-Array, can be towed by any 4X4 car, like a Range Rover or Land Rover.
It was developed by Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 specifically to develop the rollable solar array. Watch the video below. Read More
Apr
13
Sam Molenaar believes that, with further optimization, the bacteria-based battery could rival the performance of lithium-ion batteries at a lower cost and with greater safety.
A rechargeable battery driven by bacteria? Lithium-ion batteries are limited by safety issues, high costs and other factors. Sam Molenaar and his colleagues from Wageningen University wanted to come up with a less expensive, more sustainable solution.
The research team combined two separate microbial energy systems. One system used bacteria to form acetate from electricity, while the other one converted the produced acetate back into electricity. Read More
Apr
12
The double layer provides electrical power and provides a voltage, similar to how a battery works.
Clumsy, that solar panels do not generate energy while its raining. Chinese scientists have just figured out that solar panels even generate electricity for all-weather: even when it is raining.
Solar modules are most effective when they are exposed to direct sunlight, but what happens when it rains? Read More
Mar
29
If this large-scale storage of renewable energy in liquid ammonia succeeds, communities can cover long low wind and solar energy periods
Is liquid Ammonia the solution for energy storage?
Big energy company Nuon, together with the Technical University Delft started a pilot project in which renewable energy will be stored in liquid ammonia. Read More
Mar
22
Battery Batwind stores energy floating wind park
The world’s first floating wind park, Hywind, offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, after Scotland, will store it’s renewable energy in a 1MWh lithium battery.
In 2018, Norway’s Statoil intents to test the battery which is named ‘Batwind’.
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Mar
9
On average, manufacturers give 25 to 30 years warranty on solar panels. In practice, the panels will last much longer.
Now, solar energy is really going to break through. This is what the US Rocky Mountains Institute believes.
The institute listed ten reasons for it. BetterWorldSolutions is pointing out 7 of them.
Jan
20
in 2014, companies in the electric transportation sector accounted for 820 million euro.
In 2014, the number of employments in electric vehicles increased by 25% to 3,200 jobs in the Netherlands.
Dutch companies in circular electric transport are doing a great job. National and international. Important, because they do not only contribute to our economy but they also are part of the solution to the global energy and climate issues. Read More
Jan
19
Wind mill park at the North Sea
Denmark has established a world record: in 2015 42.1% of all electricity was generated by wind power.
The Danish government is a strong advocate of wind energy.
In 2020, the Danish goal is to produces 50% of the electricity by wind turbines. This goal will be achieved before. Read More
