"It basically becomes a stovetop, and you can heat anything you need to," said Sam Major, a member of the team with seniors Daniel Rist, David Luker and William Dunk. "As long as the autoclave reaches 121 Celsius (250 F) for 30 minutes (the standard set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), everything should be sterile, and we've found we're able to do that pretty easily.

Wadebridge in Cornwall has moved another step towards becoming the first solar powered town in the UK, as PV installations begin to go up across the municipality. The area aims to generate at least a third of its electricity from solar and wind power by 2015, which is the equivalent of 15,000MWh a year. By generating renewable energy at this level, Wadebridge will be able to benefit significantly from the UK’s feed-in tariff, enabling significant cash contributions for local community projects.

The Stevens Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering Senior Design team of Rachel Kenion, Liana Vaccari, and Katie Van Strander designed, fabricated, and tested biochar electrodes for supercapacitors. The group is advised by Dr. Woo Lee, the George Meade Bond Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is backing a drive to increase solar energy capacity in Asia-Pacific by six-fold to 3,000 megawatts by 2013.The ADB plans to provide up to US$2.25 billion in financing for solar projects and draw in a further $6.75 billion, mainly from the private sector, said Xiaoyu Zhao, vice-president for operations.

The idea is simple, says Kevin Moeller, PhD, and yet it has huge implications. All we are recommending is using photovoltaic cells (clean energy) to power electrochemical reactions (clean chemistry). Moeller is the first to admit this isn't new science. "But we hope to change the way people do this kind of chemistry by making a connection for them between two existing technologies," he says.

The people of Japan may be some of the most energy conscious in the world, and now Panasonic, with the help of eight partner companies, is looking to make them even greener. The project, which would as much re-building as it would be building, aims to turn on of Panasonic's former factory sites into a green smart town.

Trong một cuộc hội thảo về “Công nghệ xanh và kiến trúc”, ông Lê Thành Ân - Tổng lãnh sự quán Mỹ tại TP.HCM cho biết, chi phí năng lượng ở Việt Nam đã tăng lên hơn 15%/năm trong 2 năm qua. Theo dự báo của Tổng Công ty Điện lực Việt Nam (EVN) thì nguồn điện có thể thiếu từ 3-4 tỉ KWh trong năm 2011, trong khi lượng điện thiếu trong năm 2010 là 1 tỉ KWh.

Thai Nguyen is known not only as the revolutionary base, the cradle of the metallurgic industry, but also the center of education - training of Viet Bac, and ranks 3rd in the number of universities, colleges, secondary vocational schools located in the locality. Therefore, the demand for electricity is very high, the current maximum power consumption is 250MW, and the required power output is 4.5 million kWh per day, of which electricity for industrial production accounts for nearly 80%. So in recent years, Thai Nguyen has been actively implementing energy saving in all sectors from industrial production, offices to public lighting...

This was a prerequisite for building plans of sustainable development and more proper distribution of electric energy, thus overcoming the chronic shortage of electricity and helping businesses build a clear orientation for power efficiency so that they could reduce production costs and improve competitiveness.

Mới đây tại Hà Nội, Tổng công ty điện lực Thành phố Hà Nội đã phối hợp cùng Công ty Procxima- Israel tổ chức hội thảo Giải pháp tiết kiệm và quản lý điện năng hiệu quả từ Isael. Tham dự hội thảo có đại diện Văn phòng Tiết kiệm năng lượng Quốc Gia, Tập đoàn điện lực Việt Nam, các phòng ban chức năng thuộc EVN Hà Nội. Đại diện phía Israel có ông Ran Yehezkel, Tham tán thương mại Israel tại Việt Nam và Giám đốc Công ty Procxima.

Giám đốc điều hành Sixt Car Rental, Kasper Gjedsted cho biết: "ôtô điện là loại hình đi lại có chi phí thấp, thậm chí ngay cả các phương tiện giao thông công cộng hay taxi cũng khó sánh bằng.". Mẫu ôtô điện phổ biến mà Sixt Car Rental cho thuê là Citroen C1 Ev'ie. Khi sạc đầy pin, nó có thể chạy trên quãng đường khoảng 80-100 km và đạt tốc độ tối đa 80 km/h. Các nghiên cứu đã chỉ ra rằng, ôtô điện có thể "đánh bại" các loại ôtô truyền thống trên phương diện chi phí hoạt động.

Sáng 3/6, tại Hà Nội, Bộ Công thương và Cơ quan phát triển Đức đã tổ chức hội thảo “Hướng dẫn quy trình lập quy hoạch và đầu tư phát triển điện gió tại Việt Nam”.Theo đó, điện gió sẽ được Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam mua với giá cố định 1.317 đồng/kWh , gấp 2 lần so với giá bán của các nhà máy thuỷ điện vừa và nhỏ.

Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (also known as CIGS) to a new world record of 18.7 percent -- a significant improvement over the previous record of 17.6 percent achieved by the same team in June 2010.

Two months on from the natural disasters that ravaged Japan’s infrastructure and economy, its government has said it is determined to plough forward with efforts in the field of sustainable development through trilateral cooperation. The country has committed to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency to reach sustainable growth in the country as it rebuilds itself, officials said in a statement on Sunday.

Efficiency is a problem with today's solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90 percent of available light, and he plans to make prototypes available to consumers within the next five years.

More evidence that clear, strong policies are key to renewable energy development came recently via the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). In a statement issued by the association, some statistics about wind energy growth in the country and the states that lead in wind energy development indicate that areas with strong policy are driving development at an impressive pace.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant suggested that there were large gaps in international systems to deal with safety breaches. Ban also announced a high-level international meeting on the issue in New York on September 22 during the UN General Assembly session.

At the Electricity Customer Conference in 2011, one of the typical reports on the most successful energy saving measures in 2010 was delivered by Quy Nhon Green Parks and Urban Lighting Ltd., whose measures not only beautified the city with high efficient lighting but also saved great amounts of electric energy. Correspondent of Vietnam Electricity Central Power Corporation Website (EVNCPC) had an interview with Mr. Do Dinh Phuong - Director of Quy Nhon Green Parks and Urban Lighting Ltd. on this issue.

According to Mr Vu Huy Quang - PV Power CEO, PV Power plants are operating stably, securely and efficiently, and have high power output. Four units of PV Power have generated commercial electricity: Ca Mau 1 and 2, Nhon Trach 1, Nhon Trach 2 with the stable annual power output of about 12.5 billion kWh, accounting for 15% of total electricity production nationwide. Particularly in 2010, PV Power's total commercial electricity output reached 12.685 billion kWh.

Taking place from May 16th to May 20th in Hanoi, the Conference "Perfecting the overall plan of infrastructure development, human resource development and information dissemination for nuclear power" aimed to complete the overall plan of cooperation with IAEA in developing the infrastructure of nuclear power (IMP) in 2015.