Pastic Micro Wind Turbines
December 3, 2008
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 …
Category: Environment
Video Games are Energy Drains
November 26, 2008
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, …
France Raises Solar Feed-in Tariffs: when will it also happen in Malta?
November 26, 2008
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 …
Einstein fridge design can help global cooling
November 17, 2008
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 …
Free choice of energy supplier in Malta
November 3, 2008
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 …
Solar photovoltaic panels could lead to cheques from your electricity supplier
October 23, 2008
I suggest the reading of the following article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/20/nosplit/eavolt120.xml
Contactless electricity
September 29, 2008
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, …
What’s Next for the German Photovoltaic Industry?
September 10, 2008
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 …
Government eco-grant should be also given to products bought from other E.U. countries
September 4, 2008
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 …
Eco tax incentives in France
September 3, 2008
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 …