All Entries in the "Alternative Energy" Category
Industrial Audits and Reducing the Energy Consumption
What do you do when you are a big company with an energy cost of over 10,000 dollars and a production output equaled by the same amount? The answer is: you get an energy audit. Many companies such as those involved in heavy manufacturing process face the challenge of reducing the energy consumption. This is [...]
Humans – A Viable Source of Green Energy
The science has reached a high level, especially in the past few years, but what really surprises is the fact that human body can be used as a battery. It sounds odd, but it is a fact, especially for few Parisian scientists that invented an unusual way to power the metro. Their idea is quite [...]
Green Energy – What Happened in 2010 and What to Expect in 2011
2010 is clearly a year that has changed a lot of things in this matter. The improvement of the green technology came with the IBM invention. The company has created an affordable solar cell made out of dirt cheap materials. The big news is that this cell is able to hit an efficiency of 9.6 [...]
Can’t Afford to Buy Solar Panels? Consider Leasing
The green brigades all over the world love to recommend green energy options which are cleaner, and in the long run, cheaper too. Still it may not be cheaper to create the infrastructure to avail green energy. Solar energy is cheaper to use but installing a solar panel is definitely not cheap. The initial expenses [...]
Piezoelectric Tree – a Simple Way to Create Electricity
There are many ideas for creating sustainable, green electricity. The green lifestyle requires new eco friendly sources of energy and there are many people working in this direction. Here is one of these ideas, often labeled as strange and odd, but yet very creative and practical. The idea is based on the principle of the [...]
A Temperature Efficient Home For Winter
The winter is knocking on the door and this is of the highest concern for many people who still wonder about the right home heating. In case you want to choose more energy efficient ways for heating in the winter, here are some tips. Start with your furnace. Replace the old furnace with a new [...]
Eco Heat Pumps – The Viable Winter Solution
Winter is knocking at the door and this is a great concern for many green lovers. Heating has always been issue, especially if you are trying to choose efficient and green heating. One of the options is solar heating, but only if you are living in a warmer area. For those that are living in [...]
Electric Heating Vs. Natural Gas: Which Is Better?
The winter is coming, so there is a problem with the heating. Many people are wondering what to choose – natural gas heating or electric heating. Therefore, here are some facts about electric and natural gas heating. At first, the electric heating is far more comfortable than the natural gas heating and perhaps the basic [...]
Wind Power Maximised By Amazing Skyscrapers
When we talk about wind towers, we imagine turbines on top of them. And when we talk of skyscrapers, we talk of tall, dark structures that look almost impossible to reach. Now, imagine skyscrapers which are wind towers and that, without turbines. That is what the Gullwing Twin Wind Towers are – amazing wind energy-tapping [...]
Top 10 Solar Powered Planes
Here are top 10 solar planes powered by solar energy.
