Delving Deeper to Enhance Data Center EfficiencyBy Climate Corps FellowBy Catherine Sweere, a 2009 Climate Corps fellow and a Net Impact member, is pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration degree at Carnegie Mellon University.Efficiency. Renewable Energy. Energy Savings. It seems so easy: Add recycle bins, upgrade light bulbs, buy more efficient desktop monitors, make all […]
Solar Cells To Be Printed Like Newspaper Sunlight is a non exhaustible source of energy without contributing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Still it is miles away from replacing the fossil fuels. Many reasons can be sited. One of its biggest disadvantages is it is still out of reach for the common man and it […]
White House is prepared to set first national limits on greenhouse gases.The Obama administration on Tuesday formally proposed new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks–a move that signals the first federal limits on greenhouse-gas pollution.
World Bank spends billions on coal-fired power stations despite own warnings.The World Bank is spending billions of pounds subsidising new […]
Digital Combustion Simulation When researchers arrive at a particular after lots of experimentation they already have used up lots of resources in terms of money, man, material and time. Now scientists are trying to arrive at a result by simulating the experiments on computers and thus saving on lots of resources. A team of researchers […]
South Africa puts power security above clean energy.South Africa, which relies on coal for 90 percent of its electricity, will need to first focus on ensuring sufficient power supply before moving full-scale to fight climate change, a minister said on Tuesday.
Air quality back to normal in L.A. BasinAir quality has improved to “good” and “moderate” levels in Los Angeles County after clouds of smoke from the nearly three-week Station fire prompted health officials to caution residents and warn against strenuous outdoor activities.
UN chief urges leaders to ‘get moving’ on climate change talks.UN chief Ban Ki-moon […]
Human Powered Workout Gym Concept When we look closely at human history we can easily conclude that locomotion is one of the most primordial needs. But our current lifestyle does not allow us with much of the movements. We need to move more often. But it is also true that we live in fitness conscious […]
150mpg Algae-Powered Toyota Prius First algae fuel-powered vehicle in the world was officially launched in San Francisco. The car, called Algaeus is a modified Toyota Prius, which derives power from green crude, from Sapphire Energy. The car runs on an astonishing 150 miles per gallon of green fuel. But they are aspiring to cross the […]
China think-tank bleak on global climate goal.An international goal to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius appears unreachable even if China embarks on a vast effort to tame its growing greenhouse gas emissions, a Beijing think-tank has said.
German Geothermal Project Leads to Second Thoughts After the Earth RumblesGovernment officials here are […]
New Advances in Hydrogen Fuel Catalysts Hydrogen has great potential as a fuel of future because it is an environmentally clean energy fuel and save us from the undesirable side effects of greenhouse gases. Before becoming it a fuel of the masses we need necessary infrastructure to store it and move it. We will also […]