Archive for 'New Technologies'
Algae Will Avert Climate Change… By Destroying The Human Race!
Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Ross.
Here at Energy-Saving News, we think algae’s great. From algae-based biofuels to algae batteries; from algae which produce hydrogen for fuel cell cars to cleaning up coal pollution and turning it into fuel, algae are beginning to dominate the cleantech environment.
However, the explosion in interest in algae as a bioengineering solution to climate change has [...]
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Will Algae Fuel The Hydrogen Economy?
Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
The potential of harvested algae in the fight against global warming is a step closer to yet another massive contribution.
Whilst algae biofuels are starting to garner massive amounts of venture capitalism, and other potential applications such as algae batteries start to emerge from the depths of science fiction to become viable low-tech contenders to lithium [...]
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Why The Hydrogen Future Needs Electric Cars
Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Electric cars are the best thing to happen to the future vision of a hydrogen economy since the invention of the hydrogen fuel cell.
Many commentators are declaring the hydrogen car dead: funding for hydrogen car development has been slashed during the economic downturn, whilst electric cars have received the lion’s share of funding and bail-out [...]
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Brighter Future For Interoperable Smart Meters And Energy Efficient Appliances
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Hopes are growing that smart meters might start to live up to their billing as agents of increased energy efficiency, rather than smart meters just benefiting energy companies looking to lay off staff and charge people more quickly.
This week three leading smart meter manufacturers, Iskraemeco, Itron and Landis+Gyr, have agreed interoperability standards across markets in [...]
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Mercury-Free Energy Efficient Lighting From Vu1
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Almost as quickly as they emerged, the new energy-efficient lighting technologies of compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) and light-emitting diode (LED) may already have become redundant, according to a Seattle-based lighting company.
Vu1 is creating a range of new lighting systems using a process it calls Electron Stimulated Luminesence. As well as providing a superior [...]
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Smart Meters in California; Stupid Meters In Scotland
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Two press releases today illustrated the Jekyll & Hyde nature of smart meters: one US company trying to help consumers cut bills, whilst a Scottish company installs models only of benefit to itself.
Southern California Edison began the roll-out of 5 million new smart meters to all of their residential and small business customers this week, [...]
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Carbon Trust Catches The Energy Wave
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
The Carbon Trust is to support two cutting edge marine energy devices in a bid to accelerate the commercial development of wave and tidal energy in the UK. Projects to be supported through the Marine Energy Accelerator with Pelamis Wave Power and Marine Current Turbines will focus on installation and maintenance which currently account for [...]
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Organic Algae Batteries A Match For Lithium
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
Thought that algae-based biofuels were all that algae was good for? (As if that wasn’t enough!)
Thought that Bolivia was to become the cleantech equivalent of Saudi Arabia, with their vast lithium reserves?
Well, a team of Swedish researchers at Uppsala University has harnessed a particularly despised species of algae to produce a lightweight organic battery which, [...]
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What are Algae Biofuels?
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
Algae-based biofuels, or algal biofuels, are sources of biodiesel, bioethanol and other biofuels derived from simple organisms such as algae and phytoplankton. As with plants and other photosynthetic organisms, algae use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and biomass.
Why bother with algal biofuels?
The key reasons to research biofuels are of course all [...]
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