Clean Energy Transition

What a bunch of graduate students came up with. Good out-of-the-box thinking, with a touch of harebrained.

Yet another car company with a great plan for an electric vehicle - and yes, it's based on a lithium ion battery pack.

An honest article, giving a rare full picture of a solar project from a builder.

Energy-saving tips from a random source. Recently, there have been a few posts on the subject.

IT'S a noise wall with a difference. Drivers heading along the Tullamarine Freeway from the city to Melbourne Airport, or towards Bendigo, can see it.

A 13-in-a-dozen vague partial description about yet another solar project.

In their prototype production line, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) have successfully completed a multi-crystalline solar cell with rear side contacts. The Freiburg, Germany-based researchers will be presenting their findings in September at the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, September 3-7, in Milan, Italy.

Some 25,000 villages in India will get solar energy by 2012 as part of the government's plan to promote clean energy in the country, Minister for New and Renewable Energy Vilas Muttemwar said here Wednesday. "With such a vast pool of renewable resources available, the government wants to provide energy in every village and lighting in every house," Muttemwar said in his address at an event to mark Energy Day in memory of late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Altair Nanotechnologies, which specializes in lithium ion batteries, said Monday that it will work with investor AES to develop home energy storage systems that can hold more than 500 kilowatts of energy.