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Green Giants: The World's Biggest Clean-Energy Projects - Forbes.com

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:20:35 -0000

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It would be interesting to compare with our own world records list at http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/89 posted by keulenae

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Posted by: bennett

World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Successfully Installed : MetaEfficient

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:31:11 -0000

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The world’s largest tidal turbine, weighing 1000 tonnes, has been installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. The tidal turbine is rated at 1.2 megawatts, which is enough to power a thousand local homes. It was built by Marine Current Turbines, and it will be the first commercial tidal turbine to produce energy, when it begins operation later this year.

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Posted by: keulenae

New World Record Set For Solar Efficiency: 31.25% : MetaEfficient

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:18:32 -0000

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Could a potential good case for developing an eco-sheet, provided we can get the bill of materials. For consideration by Sergio / Fernando. posted by keulenae

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On a perfect New Mexico winter day — with the sky almost 10 percent brighter than usual — Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES’s “Serial #3” solar dish Stirling system at Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility.

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Posted by: keulenae

New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts) : MetaEfficient

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:42:50 -0000

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The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor blade width of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts.

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Posted by: keulenae

Inhabitat » World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:42:10 -0000

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Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years.

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Posted by: keulenae

Japan plans world's fastest maglev train: firm - Yahoo! Singapore News

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:41:32 -0000

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TOKYO (AFP) - - A Japanese rail operator said Wednesday it plans to introduce the world's fastest train in the next two decades, a next-generation maglev built at a cost of 45 billion dollars.

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Posted by: keulenae

U.S.'s Largest Solar-Electric Plant Goes Online | EcoGeek | Solar, Written, Energy, December, Have

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:13:37 -0000

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he plant uses traditional silicon PV cells and provides enough power to juice about a quarter of the Air Force base. Really, 14 MW is still a pretty insignficant amount of energy. And this plant doesn't approach the production power of Nevada-One, a solar thermal plant. But many people believe that the true future of solar power is converting the sun's energy directly into electricity instead of using the heat from the sun.

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Posted by: keulenae