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Posted on September 12, 2012
Author Jay Warmke will teach the basics of what a green technology curriculum might include, while Freedom Field Renewable Energy and Rock Valley College will provide a dose of reality to foster education and economic development. Teaching Green Technology in your School along with Renewable Energy Integrators and the Reality Show will be featured at…
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Posted on September 12, 2012
Retail giant expects to cut energy consumption by up to 30 per cent and may roll out technology to its 2,700 stores Tesco will this week open the doors to the first of its Express supermarkets to feature a full-scale low-energy LED lighting deployment, a move the company said will yield a 30 per cent…
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Posted on September 4, 2012
Robots pivot solar panels to face the sun Here’s the problem with solar panels. Most of the time they’re static and unable to rotate with the sun, which in the end means less electrical output. Menlo Park, Calif., based startup Qbotix has built a commercial prototype that offers an answer. It’s called SolBot, and it’s…
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Posted on August 31, 2012
The $99 Koubachi Wi-Fi plant monitor pokes into the soil and uploads environmental data to the company, which then sends plant-care alerts customized for each species. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) BERLIN — If you’re the kind of person who worries about Frank the Fern and Gertrude the Geranium while you’re on vacation, a $99 cloud-connected plant…
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Posted on August 30, 2012
The government of India has approved a 230-billion rupee strategy ($4.13 billion) to spur increased production of electric and hybrid vehicles over the next eight years, setting a target of 6 million green vehicles by 2020. The new plan, designed to reduce the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels and cut carbon emissions, would attempt to…
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Posted on August 29, 2012
Germany’s environment minister said Tuesday that the country might have to slow its shift to renewable energy to quell concerns about rising consumer costs. A year after the government decided to phase out nuclear power following Japan’s Fukushima disaster, Germany has indeed been able to increase renewable energy generation, with solar and wind incentives helping…
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Posted on August 28, 2012
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Fujitsu has announced what it says is the first recycling system that collects used CDs and DVDs and reuses the plastic in the bodies of notebook PCs. The recycled plastic is already being used for part of the front panel of its Lifebook P772/E notebook. Fujitsu has the recycling centres already in place, while Fujitsu…
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Posted on August 26, 2012
More customers are paying their bills online. Seventy-nine per cent of Vodafone Malta’s postpaid customers are paying their bills via e-billing – an increase of 10 per cent in just one year. If every household used e-billing, it could reduce waste in landfills by hundreds of tons a year and help curb the release of…
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Posted on August 18, 2012
Don Cayelli says one of his main motivations for developing his SunVolt Portable Solar Power Station was that he couldn’t find a solar charger that worked well for charging his iPad on his boat. He sails a lot and uses his iPad as a chart plotter and preferred to use the sun as a power…
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Posted on August 6, 2012
More than a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, and some 300 million of them are in Africa. Industrial design students Ryan Lynch and Marcus Triest have an interesting approach to tackling the problem in sub-Saharan African with his Solar Bag. This design concept is both a shoulder bag-style container…