Getting large equipment into space is no easy feat. At nearly £14,000 ($23,400) to send a kilogram into orbit, it’s expensive, and room is always limited.
August 21, 2014
Category Archives: Renewable energy generation
July 21, 2014
The world’s first self-cleaning solar farm
Arava Power is Israel’s leading solar developer and a pioneer in large-size solar fields, founded in 2006. Partnering with industry leaders like Siemens, Arava Power supplies hundreds of megawatts of green energy to Israel from large-scale photovoltaic solar fields in Israel’s Negev desert.
July 18, 2014
Future trends in the Chinese wind power market
Liming Qiao of the Global Wind Energy Council analyses the current status of the wind power market in China and examines future trends. In 2011 China led the global annual wind power market again, by adding 17.631 MW of a new wind capacity and cementing its place as the world’s leading wind market with a total of 62.364 MW.
July 7, 2014
Elon Musk takes on carbon with solar, battery bets
The energy world is not keeping up with Elon Musk, so he’s trying to take matters into his own hands. Musk, chairman of the solar installer SolarCity, announced that the company would acquire a solar panel maker and build factories “an order of magnitude” bigger than the plants that currently churn out panels.
July 7, 2014
Renewables 2014 Global Status Report
Renewable electricity capacity achieves new record level, jumps 8,3% in 2013, according to the Renewables 2014 Global Status Report.
May 26, 2014
China in a market leader position
China will remain the leading global consumer of wind turbine rotor blades over the coming years, with its market value expected to increase from almost $2 billion in 2012 to $3.7 billion by 2020, according to a new report from research and consulting firm GlobalData.
May 23, 2014
Solar Roadways project
Solar Roadways is a company based in Idaho that is working to perfect and implement the idea of solar panels embedded within road surfaces, sidewalks and parking lots.
May 6, 2014
Solar panel rental business
Google sees solar panel rental as an undervalued proposition in a booming solar market. The solar space is getting even more crowded now that Google will rent solar panels to households.
May 6, 2014
Bioenergy 2020
According to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) bioenergy production should follow EU resource efficiency principles. This means extracting more energy from the same material input, and also avoiding negative environmental effects potentially caused by bioenergy production.
May 5, 2014
Production of low-cost green energy
The process by which plants convert energy from the sun’s rays into chemical ‘fuel’ has inspired a new way of generating clean, cheap, renewable hydrogen power which could solve looming problems with the UK’s energy infrastructure.
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