Solar & Waste Heat (TalkSolar Podcast)
November 22nd, 2014 | by Beth Bond
Leveraging waste heat is a model for making any energy production more efficient. In the TalkSolar podcast below, I interview Phil Brennan, I his [&hellip
November 22nd, 2014 | by Beth Bond
Leveraging waste heat is a model for making any energy production more efficient. In the TalkSolar podcast below, I interview Phil Brennan, I his [&hellip
May 27th, 2014 | by James Ayre
An entirely new approach to harvesting waste heat — one based on a phenomenon known as the thermogalvanic effect — [&hellip
January 20th, 2014 | by Guest Contributor
by Chadwick Wasilenkoff Sometimes what’s old becomes new again and “cogeneration,” which is over 130 years old, is gathering momentum [&hellip
December 21st, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan
I got news of this a couple of days ago and decided to pass on covering the story since we [&hellip
July 16th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan
A new crowdfunding campaign aimed at creating the world’s most efficient semiconductor chip has just been launched on Kickstarter. The [&hellip
August 21st, 2011 | by Guest Contributor
Industry can’t exist without water. Producing anything involves heat. When you’re a manufacturing facility, you’re lucky to be pushing out exhaust heat at less than 400 degrees Fahrenheit. It costs water to make steel, water to make cement, even water to make solar PV panels and wind turbines. And then it costs water to continue to run things. For example, your average solar parabolic plant sucks up between 760 and 920 gallons for every megawatt hour produced. (Editor's Note: wind and solar PV use a ton less than other power generation options, though.)
May 5th, 2011 | by David L Roberts
President Obama calls attention to the importance of Nevada and Reno, in particular, in fostering clean energy technologies and new companies
September 15th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Here’s an idea for harvesting waste energy in a naturally synergistic combination. Many people who have air conditioners have swimming [&hellip
December 17th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Just as data farms need to have that warmth removed, day in/day out, greenhouses, by contrast, need a supply of consistent warmth, summer and winter. Put the two together and you have a marriage made in heaven. For example; between the Ella Morris and Muessel-Ellison Botanical Conservatories and Potawatomi Greenhouse and Indiana's University of Notre Dame
March 12th, 2009 | by Sarah Lozanova
Energy efficiency is low hanging fruit in the clean energy movement. Low-grade waste heat may not have the allure of [&hellip
January 20th, 2009 | by Ariel Schwartz
Yesterday, IST Energy released the world’s first compact, mobile waste-to energy system: the GEM (Green Energy Machine). The slick-looking device [&hellip
June 27th, 2008 | by Timothy B. Hurst
It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5% of total U.S. [&hellip
February 17th, 2008 | by Carol Gulyas
We renewable energy advocates love our silicon solar cells, but they come at a price: the process of making silicon [&hellip