Renewable Energy took a crashing in Australia with the destruction of Oceanlinx’s wave power generator. As ever mariner knows the sea should be respected for the forces it can unleashed. The Australian company Oceanlinx has found this out with the destruction of their generator in Port Kembla. The prototype machine was moored close to a breakwater and due to rough [...]

The Indian Mobile Phone company Airvoice Group and the public sector body Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam have joined in a venture to use Wind Energy and Solar Power to produce 13GW of power  in India. Karnataka district located in the southwest of India is the region for the development. Using multiple sites for the development  project aims to produce up [...]

Light Emitting diodes are becoming a victim of their own popularity. The demand for the LEDs have exploded and demand is reaching the current manufacturing capacity. LED have until recently been used in an indicator capacity. The elder people among us may remember those red led digits used in the early generation calculators or space age watches. With the introduction [...]

Renewable energy steps into the field of advertising with the renewable energy powered billboard. A step by by Lamar Advertising Co. aims to refit up to 1,370 billboard with solar and wind generators. The imitative which will take place in Florida, USA, will see the retrofitting of advertizing billboard with solar energy  or wind powered generators that will combines produce [...]

The Air Force of Israel is exploring the idea of having their air bases powered by solar energy. They join a lengthening list of military and governmental organizations around the world that are looking  to the future with the aim of energy security. There is no doubt that energy in the future is going to be a high demand product [...]

The State of California is to double the cap on solar energy production by net metering.  Currently set at 2.5% of the states peak energy needs this will be raised to 5% if the bill finally becomes law. The net metering policy will allow small solar energy producers, including home owners, to sell more of their excess electricity back to [...]

Diamonds, according to the song, are a girls best friend are made from Carbon. The ingredients of those sparkling gems have a darker side too. While commonly in environmental circles carbon is the C in CO2 there is another combination of this element and that is soot or black carbon. The complexity of the earth climate is beginning to unravel [...]

Part of the holiday festivities include the lighting displays that brighten up the cold winters nights. At some places not only the trees are green, the lights have gone green also. Theme parks around the country embrace this time of year to put on very special lighting displays and some of those displays will cost much less this time. The [...]

The Times Square Countdown goes green with LED lighting. The traditional Ball drop that marks the start of the New Year in times square has gone a bit greener this year. For the fist time the illuminations will be completed powered by Light Emitting Diodes (LED). Energy usages of LED lighting is around 80% of the power needed to keep [...]

Light Emitting Diodes (LED) lighting is proving to be extremely efficient and producing some unwanted side effects. Their use in Traffic Lighting has proved to be a great way for cities and towns around the world to save on energy and also as they last much longer than traditional light bubs they need less maintenance. A deficiency or unwanted side [...]