Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
The triumph of coal marketing
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Entries Tagged as 'energy'
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work? / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
So what is Bloom Box? It’s a collection of fuel cells – skinny batteries – that use oxygen and fuel to create electricity with no emissions. Fuel cells are the building blocks of the Bloom Box. They’re made of sand that is baked into diskette-sized ceramic squares and painted with green and black ink. Each [...]
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
StatoilHydro to build first full scale offshore floating wind turbine
StatoilHydro to build first full scale offshore floating wind turbine StatoilHydro has decided to build the world’s first full scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, and test it over a two-year period offshore Karmøy. The The company is investing approximately 400 million NOK [~$60 million]. Planned startup is autumn 2009. StatoilHydro has developed HyWind based on [...]
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Wind Power That Floats
Wind Power That Floats: Offshore wind-farm developers would love to build in deep water more than 32 kilometers from shore, where stronger and steadier winds prevail and complaints about marred scenery are less likely. But building foundations to support wind turbines in water deeper than 20 meters is prohibitively expensive. Now, technology developers are stepping [...]
