Brazil cut carbon emissions slightly last year, thanks mainly to a drop in deforestation which offset rises from the farming, energy and industrial sectors, said a report released Thursday.
Environment
Nov 19, 2015
0
31
Boiling water, with its commotion of bubbles that rise from a surface as water comes to a boil, is central to most electric power plants, heating and cooling systems, and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers ...
General Physics
Oct 27, 2015
3
68
Germany's wind power generation by September surpassed last year's total, thanks to favourable weather conditions and an expansion of wind farms, industry bodies said Thursday.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 1, 2015
0
39
New technology from the University of Queensland could transform electricity generation, making it cheaper and more reliable for drought-affected areas.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 23, 2015
2
29
Much of the nation's energy policy is premised on the assumption that clean renewable sources like wind and solar will require huge quantities of storage before they can make a significant dent in the greenhouse gas emissions ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 21, 2015
0
36
Opportunities will open for European citizens with more and more renewables on the European electricity system.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 14, 2015
0
55
(Phys.org)—Wind turbine farms now account for an estimated 3.3 percent of electricity generation in the United States, and 2.9 percent of electricity generated globally. The wind turbine industry is growing along all vectors, ...
Siemens has increased the generator capacity of its gearless offshore wind turbines from six to seven megawatts.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 11, 2015
1
62
"Hydraulic fracturing" (or fracking) and "environmentally friendly" often do not appear in the same sentence together. But as the United States teeters on the precipice of a shale gas boom, Northwestern University professor ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2015
0
17
Dutch scientists have developed a revolutionary system that could one day help isolated villages around the world steadily generate electricity from mundane water-logged plants such as rice growing in paddy fields.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 3, 2015
1
907
