Through energy hubs, local entrepreneurs, consumer finance and products that are relevant, Boond looks at electrifying India’s dark villages once and for all.
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Assessment finds major fracking effort would create jobs and income for local communities, but require thousands of wells to be drilled and dozens of daily tanker journeys.
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Ohio’s got green schools, lots of ’em. But that’s yesterday’s news, and, anyway, they’re not the greenest schools. No, the greenest schools – the greenest schools in the world in 2013 – happen to be a secondary school in Hong Kong and a primary school in Kenya, spanning the spectrum from teeming metropolis to rural outpost.
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Thermoelectric materials can convert waste heat directly into electricity. Tommi Tynell, M.Sc. (Tech.), who is a doctoral candidate at the Aalto University School of Chemical Technology, has developed hybrid thermoelectric materials which combine useful properties from different types of materials.
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Norwegian hydropower schemes linked to Europe’s large wind farm projects could successfully act as a backup when wind power fails to deliver enough energy, according to SINTEF, the largest independent Scandinavian research organization.
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The frosty winter months are fast approaching. For many of us, this seasonal change marks a welcome migration indoors, but in doing so we run the risk of doubling our utility bills and consuming unnecessary energy.
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Overall, the study by PSR Analytics for Pecan Street Research Institute found that residential solar, which has been under attack by utilities in the past year, can benefit those very utilities by taking a substantial bite out of the peak power demand they need to provide.
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The Sol Cuff, as its designer Lawrence Boysen calls it, is designed to charge all of your mobiles devices “conveniently from your wrist” via a gadget that looks like something you’d wear if you were starring in a science fiction flick. Could it become a fashion accessory?
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a clean energy transformation to help put the world on a more sustainable path, and emphasized that these efforts will require innovation, investment and collaboration by all partners.
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Big wind has arrived in the Horn of Africa, where it sure is needed. The 84-turbine, 120-megawatt Ashegoda Wind Farm – expanding on 30 megawatts that came online earlier – went into full operation this past weekend as Africa’s largest wind power station, according to a Reuters report.
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In recent months, India has embarked on a round of energy diplomacy with its neighbours - it has just signed joint ventures to build power plants in both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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Global oil company BP and its Indian partner Reliance Industries plan to invest more money by 2016/17 in further development of the D6 gas block
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The US-India Nuclear Deal, or the US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement, is a landmark deal which has transformed the global landscape. The contract was originally initiated between former US President Mr. George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Mr.
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Jules from Paris invents a bicycle phone charger system that uses a dynamo attached to a bike and allows cyclists around the world to recharge their phones via their own leg power.
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