Light behaves differently in macro- and nano- scale environments, and this could be a starting point for those researchers who want to improve the solar cells’ efficiency. It was a starting point for some Stanford engineers, who found out that light ricocheting inside an ultra-thin polymer film solar cell behaves differently than if the film wasn’t so thin. The difference is enormous.

Nhà máy đặt tại miền nam Brazil, được đánh giá là “nhà máy tiên phong” trong lĩnh vực sản xuất nhựa từ ethanol từ cây mía.

Chicago-based Invenergy Wind will build a farm equipped with 125 giant wind turbines on o surface of about 30,000 acre in Gratiot County, Michigan. Being considered Michigan’s largest, the $440 million project will produce 200 megawatts of energy by the end of next year, enough to supply electricity for more than 54,000 homes.

A personal helicopter weighing just 230 lb created sizzling news when it flew on hydrogen with zero emission. With an ability to carry payloads up to 800 lbs, this pocket Hercules can fly for 90 minutes. Fitted with easy controls, this reaches a speed of 100 knots thanks to a pair of small yet powerful motors mounted on it. Two common and easily available things – Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and a catalyst – combined to bring about a milestone in personal aviation history with attention to the environmental issues as well! Avimech has combined these two to power engine in to an innovative machine.

Theo TKV, sau khi giấy phép thăm dò được cấp, Tập đoàn sẽ khẩn trương tổ chức thi công và lập báo cáo, nếu được nhà nước phê duyệt, TKV sẽ lập các dự án khai thác than thử nghiệm bằng công nghệ khai thác hầm lò truyền thống hoặc khí hóa than trong lòng đất trên cơ sở đảm bảo hiệu quả về kinh tế, môi trường và xã hội.

The U.S. Navy’s Seal Beach facility in California is now home to a new $1.9 million solar parking lot, thanks to funding from the federal Recovery Act. Aside from creating new green construction jobs, the new solar facility will save the Navy more than $30,000 per year in electrical costs. It’s just one part of an all-around solar power makeover for the Navy, which just this summer has commissioned another $100 million worth of new solar projects.

Six miles per gallon doesn't sound like much, but don't tell that to the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority. The transit authority's new diesel-electric hybrid buses get two miles per gallon more than the diesel-only cousins they are replacing.

On September 17, the Thien Tan Joint Stock Company was successful in connecting electricity sources from the Ha Nang Hydroelectric Plant with the national electricity network. The plant has been constructed in Tra Thuy Commune, Tra Bong District, Quang Ngai Province. The plant has capacity of 11MW and totally costs more than VND300 billion. The plant supplies 76 million of KW annually.

A recent study, conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology, reveals that the total energy needed to make organic solar cells is less than the one needed to make inorganic solar cells.

The Dakne Hydroelectric Plant in Kon Ray District, Kon Tum Province has started running. The plant started construction in February 2007 and cost more than VND230 billion. Among those, VND180 billion equal to nearly 70 percent of the total capital was sourced from the An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank. The money granted by An Binh Bank was disbursed during the three year construction.

Along with many lighting systems which have been improved and decorated to serve the 1000 year Celebration of Thang Long-Hanoi, the lighting system at Thien Quang Lake area is one of the early completed projects and has been put into use ahead of 2nd September - the National Day.

According to a report by the Energy Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, by August 2010, the Rural Energy Project II (EPII) and Amended Rural Energy Project II had been carried out in 1,566 communes in 25 provinces and cities, 366 communes more than expected.

On September 19 in Dan Thanh Commune, Duyen Hai District, Tra Vinh Province, the Vietnam Electricity (EVN) worked with the Chinese Dongfang Electric Corporation to start construction of the Duyen Hai Thermoelectric Plant 1 with capacity of 1,245MW. The project costs VND29.245 billion, 85 percent of which was sourced from the Chinese Import-Export Bank with 15 percent from EVN.

The 27-nation bloc could make 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons) of so-called next-generation ethanol in 2020, about 65 percent of predicted fossil gasoline use, the London-based group said in a study. At least 100 refineries a year could be built in the bloc from 2013, it said. The EU currently has no commercial factories that refine biofuels from plant waste.

Theo tạp chí Wall Street Journal, mục tiêu Trung Quốc đặt ra là giảm mức độ phụ thuộc vào nguồn tài nguyên thiên nhiên đắt đỏ, tập trung giảm phát thải khí nhà kính và các tác nhân ô nhiễm khác, bởi nguồn năng lượng chủ yếu của nước này là than đá.

Discoverty cho biết, các nhà khoa học Hàn Quốc mới đây đã chế tạo thành công một loại vật vật liệu tí hon từ quặng kẽm có thể tạo ra điện năng từ sóng âm thanh. Nghiên cứu này có thể được dùng để phát triển các tấm pin có thể sạc điện cho chiếc điện thoại từ các cuộc nói chuyện qua điện thoại, thậm chí có thể cung cấp nguồn điện cho mạng lưới điện quốc gia từ những tiếng ồn trong giờ cao điểm.

The Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology (VAST) said that under the cooperation with the Institute of Applied Chemistry under the Russia Science Center, the Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances under VAST has produced alcohol with ethanol concentration at 99.98 percent and the total content of organic impurities at less than 16ppm, without using chemical agents.

Vattenfall's Thanet farm set to open as National Grid confirms wind-generated electricity has hit a new peak. The world's largest offshore windfarm, which cost over £750m to build, is poised to open off the coast of Kent, with 100 turbines producing enough electricity to supply heat and light for 200,000 homes.

The Swiss manufacturer Trunz Water Systems and a California-based reverse osmosis company, Spectra Watermakers have developed a new eco-friendly water purifier designed for use in disaster stricken areas where conventional energy sources are unavailable or too expensive. The new system, called the Solar Container, is capable of generating more than 8,000 gallons of potable water per day and is powered by renewable wind and solar energy.

Xí nghiệp chế biến lương thực Cao Lãnh (TP Cao Lãnh, Đồng Tháp) có sản phẩm chính là gạo xuất khầu với năng lực sản xuất 200 tấn/ngày. Năng lượng phục vụ sản xuất của xí nghiệp chủ yếu là điện năng ngoài ra mỗi năm đơn vị này cũng tiêu thụ khoảng 44 tấn than. Tổng chi phí năng lượng mà doanh nghiệp phải trả hàng năm là trên 780 triệu đồng với trung bình vận hành 312 ngày/năm.