Category: Environment

Two of the biggest hurdles for using wind power have been cost and the need for strong winds. A Hong Kong businessman/inventor has found a way to overcome those problems with plastic, bringing the generation cost down to around 1 cent per kilowatt-hour — the cheapest wind power system available on the market. The inventor,…

Video game consoles in the U.S. use about as much electricity in a year as every home in San Diego combined, and can significantly add to consumers’ electric bills, according to a new report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today. Much of this energy use is consumed by machines that are left…

The French Minister for Energy and the Environment announced last Monday that the government was launching an aggressive new program to propel the country to the forefront of solar energy development. Borloo said that France intends to become one of the world’s leaders in the development of solar photovoltaic technology and will increase the supply…

An early invention by Albert Einstein has been rebuilt by scientists at Oxford University who are trying to develop an environmentally friendly refrigerator that runs without electricity. Modern fridges are notoriously damaging to the environment. They work by compressing and expanding man-made greenhouse gases called freons – far more damaging that carbon dioxide – and…

Maybe one day, we would have a web page like the following http://www.preisvergleich.de/strom?MAILSOLUTION_LINKNAME=Teaser on which one can choose the locality, the consumption, enter a few options and the site gives  you the cheapest provider. Unfortunately we are very far from that as the EU granted again an extension to Enemalta for their monopoly on the…

I suggest the reading of the following article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/20/nosplit/eavolt120.xml

I recently discovered a company, Powermat, providing an innovative way to transfer electricity through induction. Powermat technology brings safe, simple, and efficient wireless electricity to surfaces including walls, tables, floors and desktops with the invention and perfection of surface connect technology. An innovative solution that provides a perfectly safe, and environmentally beneficial wireless method for…

Germany’s solar industry has been given a boost after the government said it would scale back the feed-in tariff for solar electricity by only 9-10 percent each year until 2011 much less than the 30 percent scale-back that some industry experts had predicted. Solar power in Germany is set to generate 4.134 gigawatt-hours (GWh) or…

Ordinance 135 published in the Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta of the 9th  February 2006 states that the “Once-Only Grant on the Purchase of Photovoltaic Systems for Domestic Use and on the Purchase of Thermal Roof Insulation Materials for Roofs of Domestic Residences” is only applicable for installations purchased from Malta. This is not acceptable as…

Despite being a conservative, Sarkozy is introducing very interesting loan and tax incentives for the protection of the environment. Basically he is going to launch another scheme of a 0% interest loan for the energetic upgrade of properties (double glazing, new heating systems,…) up to an amount of eur 30.000 per household. The so called…