Clean Energy Transition

iemens VDO intends to offer its customers all electric drive system components from a single supplier. The company is this also at work on high performance energy accumulators and transmissions to support the hybrid drives. Siemens VDO is already working on a full-electric system that transfers the drive to the wheels without using a conventional transmission.

This helps explain why the Prius so outsells the rival Honda Civic Hybrid. Both have similar base prices, about $22,000, and fuel economy (Prius, 60 miles per gallon city/51 highway; Civic, 49 mpg city/51 highway).

This 44-page guide includes discussions of safety, power quality and codes, legal and procedural issues, net metering, and electrical inspectors.

The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International is asking its members to accept this 7-point voluntary challenge to reduce environmental impact:

Under the highest proposed fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler stand to make $14.4 billion by 2017 -- over $6 billion more than the competition.

Ausubel has analyzed the amount of energy that each so-called renewable source can produce in terms of Watts of power output per square meter of land disturbed.

In neighborhoods across the country, there's a battle brewing: the environmentalists vs. the aesthetes.

a consortium led by the University of Delaware has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions.

The report identifies the energy burden of this new set of products that, combined with the hoarding of old products and unwitting wastage, means that, by 2020, 'ICE age' technology will account for an extraordinary 45 per cent of electricity used in UK households. That's equivalent to 14 power stations just to power our TVs, home IT and other electronics by 2020.

The grand champion in that period was Riceland Foods, Inc., of Arkansas, which collected half a billion dollars, mainly in rice subsidies.

Looks like we may have a race for the first practical, consumer plug-in between Toyota and G.M.

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have created a device that uses sunlight to transform harmful CO2 gas into fuel that could replace all the gasoline used in transportation.

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

Direct drive, mechanically integrated,weather sealed 6kW permanent magnet generator

MARS can complement a diesel generator by offering a combined diesel-wind power solution that delivers power below 20 cents per kWh. This compares to a wide range of 25 cents to 99 cents per kWh for diesel-alone, reflecting the high fuel and transportation costs in remote areas