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Brightening your Spring Home with Energy Efficient Lighting

Brightening your Spring Home with Energy Efficient Lighting

Once the weather gets warmer and spring has set in we often think about more time to spend with friends and family entertaining or just leisurely relaxing. One of the areas of the home that is often neglected is energy efficiency when it comes to beautifying our spring homes. While you may remem

Posted byon04.19.2013inEnergy

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Hamburg, a vision of Sustainable Development

Hamburg, a vision of Sustainable Development

Hamburg is a world-famous industrial city and port, or, at least it was until 2011. This is the year Hamburg was honoured with a title of European Green Capital, emphasizing the efforts and achievements of local authorities in promotion of green lifestyle, recycling technologies, eco-frien

Posted byon04.8.2013inEnergy, Society

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MIT Researchers Invent Infrared Solar Cells

MIT Researchers Invent Infrared Solar Cells

40% of all solar energy that hits the earth lays in the infrared spectrum. Imagine if this energy could be harnessed in much the same way that traditional photovoltaics cells convert sunlight (in the visible range) into useful electricity. This is exactly what a small research group at MIT (Mas

Posted byon12.1.2012inEnergy, Sustainable Tech

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Breakthrough in Hydrogen Production with Solar Energy

Breakthrough in Hydrogen Production with Solar Energy

It’s not many years ago since the first hydrogen-powered cars were created. Using hydrogen as a fuel source is superior to conventional combustion-based engines in many ways. The main one is this: Extracting energy from hydrogen molecules is not polluting in any way. In fact, the only byp

Posted byon11.20.2012inEnergy

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