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Low-cost MIT system could revolutionize global energy production
A team led by MIT students this week successfully tested a prototype of what may be the most cost-efficient solar power system in the world--one team members believe has the potential to revolutionize global energy production. The system consists of a 12-foot-wide mirrored dish that team members have spent the last several weeks assembling. The dish, made from a lightweight frame of thin, inexpensive aluminum tubing and strips of mirror, concentrates sunlight by a factor of 1,000--creating heat so intense it could melt a bar of steel. To demonstrate the system`s power, Spencer Ahrens, who just ... |
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Major technological progress needed to make renewable energy affordable
Major technological progress needed to make renewable energy affordable says a study by the RAND corpoaration. Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025 without significantly increasing consumer costs, according to a RAND Corporation study. Produced by the RAND Environment, Energy and Economic Development program, the study provides a `snapshot` of the nation`s potential energy expenditures if a requirement was imposed that 25 percent of electricity and motor ... |
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Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO)
The Anguil Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) destroys air toxics and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that are discharged in industrial process exhausts. The Anguil system achieves VOC destruction through the process of high temperature thermal oxidation, converting the VOCs to carbon dioxide and water vapor, recycling released energy to reduce operating costs.
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- Law allows New Yorkers to sell more green power to utilities
New York Governor David Paterson has announced an agreement with the Legislature on energy legislation that will authorize increased development of renewable ...
- First US sale of offshore wind power signed
The first offshore wind farm to be developed in the United States has already sold one-third of the power that will be generated during its first 25 years ...
- Further steps in the constructive EU-OPEC energy dialogue
The fifth ministerial-level meeting of the Energy Dialogue between the European Union (EU) and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ...
- EU leaders tackling high energy and food prices
EU leaders at the European Council meeting held an exchange of views on the issues posed by rising food and energy prices. The worldwide surge in commodity ...
- Rising need for energy efficiency heats up electric drives market in the HVAC industry
The boom in the construction business has rippled into the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industry in Europe, which, in turn, has buoyed ...
- Future promising for nuclear power but challenges remain, says IAEA
The number of nuclear power reactors around the globe is estimated to increase up to 60% by 2030, said Mr. Yury A. Sokolov, Head of the Department of ...
- Renewable energy schemes: rewards for rural communities?
The socio-economic impact on local communities of renewable energy schemes, such as wind farms or biofuel production plants, has been less well researched ...
- Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy
Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world`s energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural ...
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