Foreign energy firms have flocked to a narrow region of southern Mexico, known as one of the world's windiest places, to build towering wind turbines, but some projects have angered and torn indigenous villages.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 6, 2013
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Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy.
Materials Science
Mar 28, 2013
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Malaysian activists said on Friday they had filed a court challenge to block a rare earths plant being built by Australian miner Lynas, which has stoked fears over radiation pollution.
Business
Feb 17, 2012
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For Altaeros Energies, a startup launched out of MIT, the sky's the limit when it comes to wind power.
Energy & Green Tech
May 15, 2014
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Scientists have made a fascinating new discovery about the formation of mineral deposits crucial to our transition to a 'green economy'.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2022
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Thanks to the innovative radar scanner from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF, defects in the material composition of the wind turbine blades can now be detected with far greater accuracy and visualized ...
Engineering
Apr 10, 2017
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In the long sprint to find new sources of clean, low-cost power, slow and steady might win the race—the slow-moving water of currents and tides, that is. Just as wind turbines tap into the energy of flowing air to generate ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 17, 2013
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Superconducting materials are characterized by the fact that they lose their electrical resistance below a certain temperature, the so-called transition temperature. In principle, they would be ideal for transporting electrical ...
Superconductivity
Nov 22, 2022
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A new Siemens gas turbine operated in a combined cycle with a steam turbine in Irsching, Bavaria, has set a world record for efficiency, making it an outstanding example of green technology. The net efficiency of 60.75 percent ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 24, 2011
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In the race to avoid runaway climate change, two renewable energy technologies are being pushed as the solution to powering human societies: wind and solar. But for many years, wind turbines have been on a collision course ...
Ecology
Apr 20, 2022
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