We all love barbecues. But what’s best, gas or charcoal?
Gas barbecues are more eco-friendly than charcoal — they are more energy-efficient and release less pollution. Gas won’t give a funny flavour to your food like charcoal briquettes. Gas barbecues are not all expensive, and some are small enough to be taken on camping trips. Here’s where to find some online.…
Water fountains and other garden features can be powered by small solar panels. Here’s where to find the cheapest ones.
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If you’re grid-connected, a small wind turbine will reduce your electricity bill 50 to 90%… Small wind turbines are silent and easy to set up.
A small turbine should be placed at an unobstructed site, for optimum efficiency — a rooftop is fine, small turbines don’t need towers. …
Megacorp General Electric doesn’t intend to be left out of the race for the new oil. The energy giant is opening a new $52 million research lab for renewable energy technologies near Munich, Germany.
The new lab is just another card in GE’s game to dominate the market for renewables.…
A team-up of engineers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Makeyev State Rocket Center in Miass, Russia has developed a new model of wind turbine for home use.
The turbine, which will be produced by company Wind Sail, is a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) to be used as generator for off-the-grid and distributed-grid systems.…
Japanese city streets will soon have solar powered lights. Sharp Corporation is launching the new light, which combines a new type of solar cells with high-intensity LED lights.
The “Lumiwall” street light will be marketed from mid September at a retail price of 500,000 Yen ($4,000).…
The Eco- marathon we previewed last week was a close contest between ‘Inspiration’ and ‘Team Green’ on Sunday at the
Grampian Transport Museum in Scotland. Team Green took the lead after the first run with Inspiration not far behind.
Inspiration in action
They both improved in the second run as Inspiration closed the gap and finally went into the lead on the third run.…
Former Crosby Stills Nash and Young singer, Neil Young chose soya oil to power his 2004 USA tour. The singer was escorted by a fleet of biodiesel powered vans and buses.
Biodiesel is the fastest-growing fuel alternative in the USA. Army and school buses now run on this cleaner fuel in some parts of the country. …
The lightest, smallest cars in the world will be competing this weekend in a strange car race in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Hydrogen car Gh2ost and its driver
Teams from all over the planet will drive their vehicles around a 10-mile track during the Scottish round of the Eco-marathon, an annual fuel economy competition organised by Shell Global Solutions programme.…
LOW PRICE SOLAR PANEL
Coleman’s Exponent Flex 5 solar energy pack recharge your mobile phone and other small items on the move – at a better price than you will find anywhere else.
We have done a deal to get our readers the best possible price on a great little powerpack that will convert solar energy into trickle charge electricity.…
Careful planning can decrease the amount of energy consumption of an off-grid building — a key issue if you don’t want to maintain a shed full of batteries. A house built with energy efficiency in mind can consume as little as a tenth of the average grid connected house! Here are things to consider:
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Houses on the banks of New York’s East River might soon be powered by a new kind of electricity.
Six electricity turbines will be plunged into the East River in September this year this will be the first tide-powered turbine farm in the world.
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