“A pumped storage power plant is a hydroelectric plant which can be 'charged' up again by pumping the water back to the upper reservoir once it has passed through a turbine. This type of power plant is used as a 'battery', when connected to the power grid.” ...
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2013-05-21 09:04:25
However, research published earlier this year revealed that despite 95% of farmers believing renewable energy plays a vital role in the UK's farming future, 42% were holding back from making an investment due to confusion over there options. In response ...
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2013-05-21 06:12:28
The Mexican and the US government are discussing a program that would reduce the sugar surplus in North America by selling Mexican sugar to the United States for ethanol production, which would then be sold back to Mexico, Jack Roney, Director of ...
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2013-05-21 02:26:41
The demand for alternative energy is becoming increasingly more prominent and production companies are responding by turning their focus onto mobile power and back up generators. With emergency situations in mind, Intermountain Wind and Solar are ...
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2013-05-20 20:24:36
"Imagine opening a hatch in a submarine under water. The water will flow into the submarine with enormous force. It is precisely this energy potential we want to utilize." This is how German engineer Rainer Schramm describes his idea for storing energy under the sea. By using surplus energy to pump water out of a tank at the seabed, the water is simply let back in again when there's an energy
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2013-05-20 13:00:01
After a drought, record-high corn prices and plant shutdowns, ethanol producers say 2013 has to be better.
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2013-05-19 21:18:12
(Reuters) - Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system.
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2013-05-19 09:42:48
KINGMAN — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is favoring a scaled-back version of a wind farm in Mohave County.
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2013-05-18 02:10:04
The Halifax-based serial entrepreneur, with fresh interests in biofuels and undersea fibre-optics, is as hungry today as he was 40 years ago when he sold lobsters out of the back of a pick-up truck
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2013-05-17 18:10:37
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is favoring a scaled-back version of a wind farm in Mohave County. BP Wind Energy North America had proposed building 283 wind turbines on BLM and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation land that could produce up to 500 ...
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2013-05-17 15:18:41
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews) — With the elections over, North Cotabato will again experience power outages starting Friday, an official of the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) said. Cotelco general manager Godofredo Homez said their advisory on load curtailment for North Cotabato … Continue
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2013-05-17 08:39:41
The often delayed Lakeview geothermal project appears ready to move forward. Lakeview wants to begin work late this spring or summer on the $3.9 million Collins Well project, which will provide lower cost geothermal heat to the Lake District Hospital and ...
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2013-05-17 02:08:33
The Tasmanian Government looks set to maintain benefits to solar panel users who feed energy back into the electricity grid.
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2013-05-16 06:17:36
From a price of €171.9 per megawatt hour (MWh) back in August of 2012, the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) announced this past Friday that they will be cutting the feed-in tariff price down to €95 per MWh of generated ...
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2013-05-16 02:09:16