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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Last December, the Liquid Robotics PacX Wave Glider robot set a world record after autonomously traversing 9,000 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean. Today, the Silicon Valley startup is announcing a new line of Wave Glider robots propelled by waves and solar power

A new type of wind turbine that can transform wind energy into electricity without the use of moving mechanical parts has gone on display outside Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The EWICON has an abstract appearance, with a flowing steel ...

New York has made a lot of progress in harnessing wind power, jumping from 48 megawatts of wind capacity in 2004 to more than 1,600 megawatts now, including large-scale development on the windy Tug Hill Plateau east of Lake Ontario. The university researchers say half of the .... A Moroccan flag flies next to a wind turbine on June 28, 2010 at a 250-million-euro (300 million US dollar) wind farm near Tangiers shortly after its inauguration by Moroccan King Mohammed VI

Friday (April 5) SunPower and the Salt River Project (SRP) dedicated the first commercial deployment of its low-concentrating photovoltaic C7 Tracker system at Arizona State University in Mesa, Ariz. The company introduced the systems in late 2011, which are a departure from the company's ... For instance, the ASU system only requires 172 kilowatts of cells to produce 1 megawatt of power

Move over Doc Brown, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method for creating hydrogen from the ash of burned trash. The seemingly simple technique could be what the world needs to push hydrogen forward as a mass fuel.

Salt River Project (SRP) and SunPower Corp. are dedicating a 1 MW solar photovoltaic power plant at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus in Mesa, Ariz. The facility is the first commercial deployment of the SunPower C7 Tracker technology, a solar ...

The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in Boston, MA., has been studying the probable impact of renewable energy standards and tariffs (REST) on a state-by-state basis. This month they published their analysis of Arizona's renewable energy mandate.

MESA, Ariz., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Salt River Project (SRP) and SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) today are dedicating a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant at Arizona State University's (ASU) ...

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center has won renewal of the largest single federal grant the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received, enabling it to continue its work on research on sustainable next-generation biofuel technologies. The renewal ...

Michigan State University says the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $125 million to the East Lansing school and to the University of Wisconsin to continue their work on advanced biofuels . Michigan ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the production of clean hydrogen fuel, developing a new method that allows them to extract the gas from any plant. Using a simple and abundant plant sugar called Xylose, researchers at Virginia Tech university ...

Australia's main electricity market could source all of its electricity from renewable energy with the help of a carbon price of as low as $50 a tonne, according to research at the University of NSW. The researchers found currently available renewable energy ...

Australia's main electricity market could source all of its electricity from renewable energy with the help of a carbon price of as low as $50 a tonne, according to research at the University of NSW.

Central Michigan University engineering and technology students are building an energy-harvesting device that will be used to power a temperature display in front of the Engineering and Technology Building. The device, which contains a material that ...