The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Office, the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Center will join hands with the Hanoi Women’s Union to host diverse training courses on energy efficiency and conservation for families living in the city’s 10 inner districts from June 23 to July 27, 2010, said the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade’s leadership in a press meeting on June 16, 2010.

There’s a lot of talk about making power meters and the electric grid “smart” enough to handle additional energy from solar panels. National Semiconductor wants to make the solar panels themselves smarter. They’ve developed a chip that integrates into the junction boxes of solar panels, optimizing power production.

Since 2008, the Board of Directors has decided to collaborate with the Energy Efficiency Research and Development Center – ENERTEAM in conducting energy audits at the company headquarter. Results showed that energy conservation potentials at the company are very promising, all solutions proposed required little investment and were easy to implement in practical application.

Asia needs to create new business/production models for green and clean development in combination with preservation of natural resources and protection of the environment. The need was addressed at seminars held on June 7, the second workday of the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2010 (WEF on East Asia 2010).

In H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, tiny organisms found in nature save the world from powerful high tech invaders that have overwhelmed mankind’s powerful high tech weapons, and in a classic case of life imitating art, there they go again.

The positive trend of sustainable development has made lighting firms realize their responsibility to create “green” values with research and development, in order to develop environment-friendly products, improving life quality of people.

Ananya Tantia sinh viên ngành thiết kế công nghiệp trường Rhode Island cùng với Erin Knowlton đã đưa ra mẫu thiết kế một sân chơi rất thú vị, có thể tạo ra năng lượng điện từ những trò chơi quen thuộc với thiếu nhi như đu quay, zip line, bập bênh, cầu trượt. Mỗi trò chơi đều được gắn một hệ thống mô tơ. Khi chơi, trẻ tạo ra lực làm quay roto bên trong mô tơ, sinh ra dòng điện. Dòng điện này có thể dùng để thắp sáng trường học, sân chơi ngoài trời, thậm chí cả hệ thống đèn chiếu sáng đường phố.

A component of the program to assist firms in energy conservation in the province, An Giang Scientific and Technological Advance Application Center has lately undertaken many positive actions such as: Organizing trainings, auditing, implementing energy saving, etc

First Solar has contacted Ho Chi Minh City Hi-tech Park, Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park and Phong Phu Industrial Zone to build a factory on an area of 72 hectares. First Solar’s products include the first photovoltaic thin panel battery. However, due to requirement of large area, the High-tech Park will no longer be suitable, therefore, First Solar must find venue in two other locations.

U.S. policymakers can't count on that kind of dedication as they map out the electric-car future. President Barack Obama aims to get a million electric cars and plug-in hybrids on U.S. roads by 2015 to ease U.S. reliance on imported oil and cut carbon emissions. The first two mass-market electrics, Nissan's Leaf and the Chevy Volt, are set to hit the streets this fall.

Olympic bên cạnh các bộ môn thi đấu còn thu hút người hâm mộ bởi các công nghệ xanh do nước đăng cai xây dựng. Với Olympic 2016, Brazil cũng đã lên kế hoạch mang lại một Olympic không CO2 đầu tiên. Công nghệ được Rio giới thiệu là một tòa tháp mặt trời với khả năng vừa tạo ra năng lượng, vừa làm thác nước.

A research team at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has developed a powerful new tool that promises to unlock the secrets of biomass degradation, a critical step in the development of cost-effective cellulosic biofuels. The details of this method were published online on June 11 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

According to the Master plan for Vietnam building material development to 2020, demands for building materials in 2010, 2015, 2020 are correspondingly 25, 32, 42 billion brick equivalent units, in which, the proportions of non-baked material are 10%, 15 – 20% and 30 – 40%, respectively.

Kể từ ngày 1 tháng 7, thành phố Denver bang Colorado, Hoa Kì sẽ được thắp sáng bởi 2 mặt trời. Ngoài mặt trời tự nhiên soi sáng hằng ngày, sẽ có một mặt trời nhân tạo nhỏ hơn thắp sáng vào chiều tối. Mặt trời này sẽ mọc lên trên mặt bên của tòa nhà Minoru Yasui, sáng suốt đêm và lặn khi trời sáng. Đây là một dự án của họa sĩ Adam Frank với tên gọi SUNLIGHT và tất cả đều vận hành bằng năng lượng mặt trời.

“Encouraging small and medium businesses in developing countries to use resources effectively" is a pilot program which has been carried out by UNEP to reinforce manufacturing competence of these businesses to implement cleaner production and to use natural resources effectively, in the end, contributing to decreasing production costs, minimizing pollution, improving health and enhancing industrial safety.

Yes, the day is not far off when reaching for sky is the new motto for generating cost-effective renewable energy. Initially it was considered to be technically non-viable to tap high-altitude winds.

Dự án khí sinh học Việt Nam là một trong sáu ứng viên tiên phong về năng lượng bền vững từ khắp châu Á, châu Phi và châu Mỹ Latinh đã lọt vào vòng chung kết Giải thưởng Ashden về Năng lượng bền vững năm 2010. Giải thưởng trị giá hơn 140.000 bảng Anh, sẽ công bố vào ngày 1.7.2010 tại Hiệp hội Địa lý Hoàng gia Anh Quốc.

But now Sanyo’s lithium-ion battery technology has made it possible for Mira EV to travel 1003.184 km without a recharge. Traveling for 27.5 hours, at 40 km/h average speed, from May 22 to May 23, 2010, the trail run by Mira EV was powered by putting together 8320 cylindrical lithium-ion 18650-type batteries.

SaigonBus Co., Ltd will import 21 buses which run on CNG to replace a few buses on route 1 from Ben Thanh market to Binh Tay market. After being imported, these buses will be tested in 6 months before the People’s Committee makes the decision on the subsidized rate for vehicles using clean fuel.

Held by The World & Vietnam Magazine (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in cooperation with the Asia Business Forum (ABF), and European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (Eurocham), the conference is the largest ever on the issue. It is forecast that Vietnam's economy continues to grow rapidly while the population will reach 100 million by 2020. To meet the demand for electricity, Vietnam's power sector must maintain a growth rate of more than 12% annually.