The project recently won the Swiss Watt d’Or prize, for the best in renewable energy innovation 2020. The solar farm is located at an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level on the Lac des Toules reservoir in Valais, Switzerland, which already serves as a hydropower station.
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Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik and found a start-up called Icewind that is building a new type of funky wind turbine designed to perform well in low-wind conditions but also to slow itself down in high-winds, preventing it from catching on fire or ripping apart.
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The Eagleyew house is a beautifully sculpted custom green home built with nearly 100% natural materials! The light clay walls are made with a mixture of clay and straw, and the timber frame structure is built using wood from the property. There is a wraparound living roof, and the interior has earthen cob floors and natural plasters.
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A Brown’s Gas Generator is an alternative form of supplementing a gasoline engine to become more efficient using water, which is then split into its constituent element of hydrogen and oxygen.
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We have all heard of the problem of solar power : it’s intermittency. What happens when the sun does not shine? Now, researchers may have come up with a new solution for that. It’s a device dubbed the “shadow-effect energy generator” and it can generate electricity even when part […]
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