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China to invest $500 billion in electric power infrastructure
The Chinese officials announced its strategy to improve considerably the nation’s energy efficiency by 2020, as the country seeks to modernize its energy infrastructure at the domestic level and to dominate the clean energy technology markets at international level.
read more... 27/10/2011
New wind turbines to capture more energy
A recently research made by the specialists at the California Institute of Technology showed that the old design of wind farms needs to be remade as to use maximum efficiency that will lift the power output from the wind farms. The researchers underline that larger and taller wind turbines will increase the capacity of wind farms rather than large dimensions of wind farms.
read more... 28/07/2011
FuelCell Energy to award two contracts for renewable biogas processing and carbon capture
FuelCell Energy, a developing and manufacturing company of ultra-clean fuel cell power plants which generate electricity with up to twice the efficiency of conventional fossil fuel plants, announced the development of 2 renewable projects worth a total of 1.7 million dollars.
read more... 14/04/2011
Smaller quantum dots can generate more energy for solar cells
New information about the efficiency of smaller quantum dots was provided by a research team from the United States-based National Science Foundation. According to them, the quantum dot solar cells are capable to produce more electricity from the same amount of absorbed light.
read more... 29/03/2011
Mitsubishi to develop a more energy-efficient liquefied natural gas ship until 2014
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Company received an order from Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, a shipping company, to build a ship with a steam turbine generator that has 15 percent better fuel efficiency as compared to the traditional steam systems.
read more... 03/03/2011