In light of the Kyoto Protocol and growing public awareness of the environmental effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the dawning effect of using these limited resources, everyday people are beginning to explore energy alternatives that are both renewable as well as kinder to the environment. By the same token, proponents of these more conventional and environmentally hazardous sources .. more …
Over in the US, the BP corporation has established an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) to spearhead extensive new research and development efforts into clean burning renewable energy sources, most prominently biofuels for ground vehicles. BP’s investment comes to $50 million (US) per year over the course of the next decade. This EBI will be physically located at the University of Illinois .. more …
The geothermal heat pump (GHP), also known as the Ground-Source Heat Pump (GSHP) or generically as geoexchange, is the fastest growing geothermal application today. GSHP is a highly efficient renewable energy technology that is gaining wide acceptance for both residential and commercial buildings, with 1.4 million installations worldwide by 2005, and growth from 1,854 MWt of capacity in 1995 to .. more …
BEIJING – The capital city’s environmental watchdog has urged the country’s two leading universities to retire their coal boilers and use green energy.”All of the capital universities in six urban districts are now ready to phase out coal boilers except Peking University and Tsinghua University,” Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing municipal environmental protection bureau, told China Daily .. more …
Hertford Regional College (HRC) in the UK has joined forces with the Thor Data Center (THORDC) in Iceland to provide cost efficient, eco-friendly technology to schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK. The joint venture has been coined “HRC Cube” and is an innovative solution to dealing with increasing cuts in UK government funding to education. Drawing on Iceland’s combination of .. more …
All of us use electricity every day of our lives, mostly taking it for granted, and despite only being a product of our modern age, a world without it seems almost incomprehensible. It is all to easy to consume electricity without a second thought, however, one of the biggest problems facing us in the 21st century is to maintain this supply whilst managing the impact that our consumption has on .. more …
Simply stated, if acting like a coolant, the heat pumps draw out the heat or the warm air from the rooms and thus make it cooler. High temperature pumps are peculiar devices and are very efficient in their working. In the quest to solve the ever growing global energy crisis, high temperature pumps could be much better used as an alternative energy source for the house appliances and offices. Heat .. more …
WASHINGTON , Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), who has led the effort to increase the energy efficiency of SEPTA’s transit fleet, announced today that SEPTA will receive a $1,440,000 green-energy grant for the Market-Frankford Line. (Logo: ) The Department of Transportation has approved the grant as A New Model for Wayside Energy Storage under the Transit .. more …
At the Earths’ core, the temperature is 60 times greater than that of water being boiled. The tremendous heat creates pressures that exert themselves only a couple of miles below us, and these pressures contain huge amounts of energy. Superheated fluids in the form of magma, which we see the power and energy of whenever there is a volcanic eruption, await our tapping. These fluids also trickle to .. more …
Aragorn Power and Energy Corporation, large oil and gas producing company in Philippines recently has signed an understanding with Chevron Kalinga Limited, subordinate of Chevron Geothermal Philippines to construct a power plant in Kalinga. More than 300 million USD is rendered as energy investment to the 100 megawatt Kalinga geothermal power project. Guidance Management Corporation and the .. more …
