Top Cleantech Stories Of The Day!

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: US Navy Trains Laser Weapon On Research Critics Improved Concrete Via Use Of Sunflower Seed Husks Improved Transmission To Aid Wind Power In Australia eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid Printable Solar Cell Encyclopedia To Be Released Amonix Breaks Own World Record For Solar PV Module Efficiency Excerpts: US Navy Trains Laser Weapon On Research Critics For years now, the US Navy has been raising alarms over the impact of continued petroleum dependency on national security, and now it looks like the oil-soaked chickens have come home to roost. According to an article last week by the Office of Naval Research, the Navy’s new laser weapons system (LaWS) makes a stem-to-stern overhaul of the way that warships deploy energy a matter of top priority. Quite simply, LaWS and other new systems … Read More US Navy Trains Laser Weapon On Research Critics was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Improved Concrete Via Use Of Sunflower Seed Husks An improved form of concrete, made by utilizing a waste material of the agricultural industry — sunflower seed husks — has been created by researchers at the Namik Kemal University in Turkey. The husks are a waste product of the vegetable oil and food industry, and are produced in enormous quantities, so any potential use for them would be a big plus with regards to waste reduction. The improvements are related to fact that through … Read More Improved Concrete Via Use Of Sunflower Seed Husks was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Improved Transmission To Aid Wind Power In Australia South Australia has a lot of wind power. The neighbouring state of Victoria doesn’t. Even though Victoria has just recently opened the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere, its wind capacity only supplies about 5% of its total electricity use. As a result, when winds are high and its demand is low, South Australia exports electricity to Victoria. However, sometimes the transmission lines reach the limit of their capacity causing some wind power to … Read More Improved Transmission To Aid Wind Power In Australia was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid A distributed power-clean energy milestone was reached late last week as leaders from government and industry joined officials from the University of Delaware and NRG energy to celebrate the first instance of electric vehicle-to-grid (EV2G) technology being used to sell electricity to the power grid. Ongoing success could well provide a critical missing link on the path to a clean, green, renewable and distributed energy infrastructure, economy, and society. eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Printable Solar Cell Encyclopedia To Be Released In only a couple of months, an incredible resource will be released to the public, a comprehensive list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that are useful for the creation of cheap, printable, photovoltaic cells (PVCs). The list was created as part of Harvard’s Clean Energy Project. The project makes use of IBM’s World Community Grid — which is essentially a program that makes use of the collective surplus computing power of the computers of … Read More Printable Solar Cell Encyclopedia To Be Released was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Amonix Breaks Own World Record For Solar PV Module Efficiency Amonix Inc. is no stranger to setting peak efficiency records with its concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems. As a matter of fact, it just set a new record that successfully converted more than 36% of direct sunlight into electricity. This new achievement breaks the old record Amonix established in May 2012 of 34.2% peak efficiency. Amonix has been the leading designer and manufacturer of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems for quite some time. This result continues Amonix's long history of … Read More Amonix Breaks Own World Record For Solar PV Module Efficiency was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). 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Top Cleantech Stories Of The Day!

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Batteries — The Next Big Thing In Energy Storage? (CleanTechnica Exclusive) Gamesa Continues Construction Of Spain's First-Ever Offshore Wind Turbine Graphene Silicon Nanoplatelets Increase Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity 4 Fold Interview With Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, Director Of Sustainability At Masdar Ford And KB Home Mashup Will Let You Live Like The Jetsons Very Tiny Small Minimal Program For Batteries In Germany Solar Energy In The Australian Outback – At 8c/kWh Battle For King Island: Wind Energy Politics At 20 Paces Excerpts: Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Batteries — The Next Big Thing In Energy Storage? (CleanTechnica Exclusive) I recently had the opportunity to chat with the CFO and President of Zinc Air Inc., Craig Wilkins, as well as one of the company’s advisors, Greg Hayes. It was a very interesting discussion and it looks like Zinc Air Inc. has what could be a very promising grid storage technology, and the technology is just about ready for market. As always, we will have to see how the market responds. However, for now, below is a … Read More Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Batteries — The Next Big Thing In Energy Storage? (CleanTechnica Exclusive) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Gamesa Continues Construction Of Spain's First-Ever Offshore Wind Turbine Spain’s first-ever offshore wind project is continuing its slow journey to completion, as Gamesa announced on Friday that it had begun shipping components for the 5 MW marine turbine from the port of Bilbao to Arinaga Quay in Gran Canaria where they will be assembled. The blades are the longest turbine blades ever to be produced and transported in Spain, and some of the largest in Europe. Manufactured at the Gamesa plant in Aoiz, the blades … Read More Gamesa Continues Construction Of Spain’s First-Ever Offshore Wind Turbine was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Graphene Silicon Nanoplatelets Increase Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity 4 Fold This article first appeared on the Hephaestus Project – Energy blog. By David Fuchs Six months ago, Northwestern University professor Harold Kung theorized that, using a graphene–silicon mixture, there was a way to extend a new lithium-ion battery's charge by 10 times and increase its lifespan by a factor of 10. The technology theorized by Harold Kung could allow for cell phone batteries to be charged in 15 minutes and hold a week’s worth of charge. It could also allow greater … Read More Graphene Silicon Nanoplatelets Increase Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity 4 Fold was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Interview With Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, Director Of Sustainability At Masdar As global energy leaders arrive in New York City to attend this week's Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit, I had the lucky opportunity to catch up with Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, director of sustainability at Masdar, Abu Dhabi's renewable energy company. Dr. Al-Hosany shared some updates on the progress at Masdar, insights about the Middle East's growing renewable energy market and the role women are playing to address climate change. 1. What do you hope to … Read More Interview With Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, Director Of Sustainability At Masdar was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Ford And KB Home Mashup Will Let You Live Like The Jetsons Now here’s a corporate America green mashup for you: Ford Motor Company has teamed with U.S. home building giant KB Home to create an ultra-efficient model house that seamlessly integrates plug-in electric vehicles and solar power into its energy mix. Specifically, KB’s ZeroHouse 2.0 is being introduced in San Marcos, California complete with Ford’s new MyEnergi Lifestyle household and EV energy management system. The idea is to demonstrate that the interaction between house and car … Read More Ford And KB Home Mashup Will Let You Live Like The Jetsons was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Very Tiny Small Minimal Program For Batteries In Germany This article originally appeared on Lenz Blog (minor changes below). Zachary Shahan already reported that Germany will start a subsidy program for batteries used with small solar power from May 1st on. Now there has been an official news release from the German government on the matter. People will be able to get low-cost financing from the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, the government-owned development bank. And they will get a subsidy of 30% of the battery costs. Solar PV systems … Read More Very Tiny Small Minimal Program For Batteries In Germany was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Solar Energy In The Australian Outback – At 8c/kWh This article first appeared on RenewEconomy. An Australian solar thermal technology developer says it can provide concentrated solar thermal energy to outback and remote locations for just 8c/kWh, and hopes to sign for its first two commercial projects within the next few months. Graphite Energy, an Australian company privately owned by an un-named "entrepreneurial family", has been operating a 3MW solar thermal power plant at Lake Cargelligo, in western NSW, for the last couple of … Read More Solar Energy In The Australian Outback – At 8c/kWh was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Battle For King Island: Wind Energy Politics At 20 Paces This article first appeared on RenewEconomy. Windswept King Island, lying in Bass Strait between Tasmania and the mainland, is being touted as a potential blueprint for what the country's electricity grid might look like in the future. But right now it is also emerging as a battleground for the minds of locals over proposals for what could be the largest wind farm in Australia. And it could have implications for the future of renewable energy … Read More Battle For King Island: Wind Energy Politics At 20 Paces was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Thanks for loving us.  View this email in your browser Related Sites: Some rights reserved  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Power for Patriots

Repost from Power for Patriots

The link posts compelling reasons why we should go for alternative energy sources:  wind, solar and others.  In USA especially, you can not afford not to have power during snowstorm or bad weather.  Your family can die from freezing temperature.  Not to mention the increasing power costs from electric company.

Solar is cheap and free from the sun, after you have paid for the panels.