Generating Your Own Home Electricity
Living off the grid, away from power lines, requires setting up a self-sustaining electrical system. If wanting freedom from the power company, there are three basic ways to generate your own home...
View ArticleThe Great River Turbine Concept from Michael Jantzen
The Great River Turbine is a conceptual design for a large (one hundred foot diameter) stainless steel water turbine developed to function as a tourist attraction and as a powerful electricity...
View ArticleWhy GE isn’t ‘Friending’ Nuclear Power
As the whole world is fixated on the debate about on using and not using nuclear power for energy generation, the anti-nuclear protesters have got a new powerful argument about nuclear energy being not...
View Article5 Promising Eco Careers
Businesses everywhere recognize their responsibility as global citizens to safeguard and conserve the earth’s resources for current and future generations. This goal is prevalent in a variety of...
View ArticleThe Siemens SST-500 GEO Steam Turbine
Geothermal plants are going to get a new addition to the family of energy assistants. This is because Siemens Energy is releasing a steam turbine that is going to extremely useful to the current state...
View ArticleIs Michigan reinventing itself?
WayneState University’s engineering technology department recently installeda vertical axis wind turbine called "The Franklin" manufactured by Franklin Wind Energy Group based in Michigan.A vertical...
View ArticleSunCatchers Offer More Efficiency at Low Cost
Solarthermal plants have been using solar concentrators for quite some time.Simply put, these systems focus the energy of the sun at one point inorder to drive more heat, which powers a turbine to...
View ArticleBluenergy SolarWind Helical Hybrid Turbine Uses Dual Technology
I’ve talked about helical wind turbines before such as the Helix.I’ve also many times talked about the merits of solar energy. But, whatif you could combine these two types of renewable energy systems...
View ArticleThe Retractable Blade Solar Wind Turbine
Honolulu-based Natural Power Concepts has designed a mobile, retractable-blade wind turbine that generatesboth wind and solar energy. Featuring seven instead of three blades, the wind turbine catches...
View ArticleThe Quietest Wind Turbine in the World
An Australian company called Renewable Energy Solutions Australia Holdings Ltd. (RESA) has created what it says is a super quiet and efficient wind energy turbine. Suggestively called Eco Whisper, the...
View ArticleMicro Windmill Recharges Phone Batteries
A UT Arlington research associate and electrical engineering professor have designed a micro-windmill that generates wind energy and may become an innovative solution to cell phone batteries constantly...
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