Đến năm 2012, những chiếc taxi chạy bằng nhiên liệu hydro và điện sẽ lăn bánh trên đường phố Lodon, Anh, thay thế những mẫu xe chạy bằng xăng truyền thống. Đây là một phần trong kế hoạch giảm hoàn toàn lượng khí thải từ loại phương tiện phổ biến nhất tại thành phố này.

Nhà máy điện gần làng Drax, cách Luân Đôn 150 km về phía Bắc thường tích trữ nhiều đống than lớn có khối lượng khoảng 3 triệu tấn ở phía tây nhà máy. Tuy nhiên, gần đây những người đứng đầu Drax Group, tập đoàn sở hữu nhà máy điện lại tự hào về một nguồn nhiên liệu khác ở phía Bắc: hàng nghìn kiện cỏ voi được xếp thành cột cao khoảng 9 m.

The international drivers for energy efficiency are based in cost savings, suggesting that the sluggish economy could be a driver for companies to grab low-hanging fruit to help their bottom line. While energy management is important in every country, some emerging economies outstripped Europe and the U.S. when it came to how high they ranked.

Olympic Delivery Authority weighs up solar and biomass options after pulling plans for onsite wind turbine. The developer of London's Olympics Park has returned to the drawing board to find a suitable renewable energy system after this week scrapping high profile plans to install a wind turbine at the Stratford site.

The chairman of the National Assembly’s Science, Technology and Environment Committee Prof. and Dr. of Sc. Dang Vu Minh, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dr. Do Huu Hao, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Le Dinh Tien and the head of the Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute Dr. Vuong Huu Tan all attended the exhibition.

The draft version of the Law on Energy Efficiency and Conservation has dedicated a chapter to describe the responsibility of industrial production facilities in economical and efficient use of energy. This indicates the essential role of the industrial sector in Vietnam efforts to achieve the national target on energy efficiency and conservation.

A team at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is developing a technique to create some of the ingredients for synthetic fuels from carbon-containing gases. Their cerium-oxide-based system can convert CO2 into carbon monoxide, and can also turn water into hydrogen.

Nếu một quốc gia có nguồn ngân sách khổng lồ nhưng tài nguyên đất đai hạn hẹp: vậy thì nguồn năng lượng tái tạo nào có tiềm năng lớn nhất? Giáo sư trường ĐH Rutgers, Clinton Andrews và các đồng nghiệp đã thử nghiệm một số ý tưởng và đưa ra những vấn đề gây bất ngờ. Họ vạch ra những giới hạn rõ ràng về một số công nghệ, đáng chú ý là nhiên liệu sinh học, rồi đưa ra kết luận rằng khó khăn lớn hơn cả đối với năng lượng tái tạo và đất đai là địa điểm được chọn khai thác năng lượng đặc biệt là đường truyền dẫn.

Earlier last year, there were news about scientists dreaming of space-based solar panels, which were to capture the Sun’s energy and bring it to the Earth through microwaves, or lasers, and to provide the ultimate energy source for us.

To realize energy saving plan in order to reduce cost of production, the company’s leaders have planned to run concrete crushing machine during off-peak hours, hence consuming less electricity on producing concrete and clinker in comparison with previous targets. The company has also reduced time spent on drying furnace, and burned coal right after solving furnace problem instead of using MFO oil; hence dramatically reducing oil consumption.

The Institute for Building, Science and Technology (IBST) on May 12th held a scientific seminar on “The experiences in implementing energy saving and efficiency program of the EU and Bulgaria and the application of energy efficiency meter software in Vietnam.” Participants of the workshop included Mr. Vladimir Moskov, commissioner of Bulgarian Embassy in Vietnam, Prof. Dr Nikola Geargiev Kaloyanov, Vice-Chancellor of Technical University of Sofia, project director and some other experts. On Vietnam side are Assoc. Prof. Dr Cao Duy Tien, director of IBST, Assoc. Prof. Dr Nguyen Xuan Chinh, deputy director of IBST concurrently project director, other experts from research institutes and universities and other interested researchers.

Hydrophobic materials had been discovered, but their properties don’t last that long – not to mention as long as to be put on ships who cruise for weeks/months. The best such material only has a few hours of stability, after which it vanishes. The challenge is to make hydrophobic materials that last at least as water ferns do.

The Southeast False Creek Neighborhood Energy Utility, or N.E.U., supplies space heating and domestic hot water to local buildings using heat recovered from wastewater and raw sewage. “This is a test case for Vancouver,” said Chris Baber, the N.E.U.’s manager. It is also the first “district” energy system in North America to draw heat from untreated wastewater. There are only three similar projects worldwide: two in Oslo and one in Tokyo.

The demand for electricity of Ba Ria – Vung Tau (BR - VT) averages more than 7 million kWh, but the allocated output is only 6 million kWh. Thus, the power cut frequency in the province since the beginning of April has been “every two days”, 1.5 times higher than the same period in 2009, which has dramatically affected all aspects of life.

While they may sound nuts, these wild and innovative ideas could be the future of mobility. From electric cars that charge without wires to remote-controlled commuter convoys, plenty of far-fetched technologies are in the works that could green up the way we drive and make our roads do more than just lie there.

Two drawbacks to solar power were cost and the bulk of the panels, but newer panels, called thin-film solar panels are lowering the cost of solar and allowing new types of solar panels to be made. Some are flexible and can either be rolled up or formed into roof tiles, so it’s hardly noticeable that you’re powering your home with the sun!

The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching from the Indian to the Pacific Oceans contains hundreds of volcanoes, estimated to hold around 40 percent of the world's geothermal energy potential.

obbing in the Atlantic, about nine miles from the sandy beaches of the Rockaway peninsula, a yellow buoy clangs and blinks, rising and dropping on the ocean swells. Fixed to the nose of the buoy are two anemometers that spin in the wind. They read the direction and speed of the wind 24 hours a day, like a dog with its head out the window of a car on an endless highway.

Cobalt Technologies this week said that it has made a breakthrough in producing biobutanol from beetle-killed lodgepole pine feedstock. Cobalt claims to be the first company to produce a drop-in replacement for petroleum and petrochemicals from beetle-affected lodgepole pine.

Nhiên liệu từ hydro rất có khả năng sẽ thực sự trở thành nhiên liệu của tương lai. ĐIều này nghe có vẻ quá sức tưởng tưởng; một nguyên liệu sạch, dồi dào, và lượng khí thải chỉ là nước. Tất nhiên, hầu hết hydro hiện nay được sản xuất từ khí gas tự nhiên, nhưng điều đó có thể thay đổi trong tương lai. Ngoài ra, việc thiếu cơ sở hạ tầng và chi phí cao của xe hydrogen đã khiến các nhà sản xuất ô tô tập trung vào các công nghệ xe sạch khác dễ tiếp cận thị trường hơn.