In this episode, Virginia covers solar cells taking a leaf from plants, a possible carbon tax for Australia, solar powered hemp bodied electric cars and new life for electric car batteries.
Canada has come under fire over the last few years for its exploitation of tar sands resources in Alberta, but in the province of Ontario, solid headway is being made in renewable energy.
A report prepared for Greenpeace Australia Pacific has found Australia’s big four banks are pouring huge amounts of money into the most polluting form of power generation: coal.
2011 is shaping up as a bumper year for world growth in the solar photovoltaic market, according to global market forecaster iSuppli Corp.
The wave and solar powered Wave Glider, an unmanned maritime vehicle, was recently announced the winner of the Wall Street Journal’s 2010 Technology Innovation Award for Robotics.
A recent study has found the less well off in India could be a huge market for solar energy solutions.
Greg Combet, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, has somewhat vindicated previous Environment Minister Peter Garret’s performance after receiving the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report into the controversial Green Loans program.
The Western Australia Sustainable Energy Association (WA SEA) has welcomed an announcement by geothermal proponent Green Rock Energy Limited of the receipt of $7 million in federal funding towards its proposed geothermal test well at WA University’s Crawley Campus.
It wasn’t that long ago the prospect of powering a nation with clean, renewable energy seemed to be a pipe dream; but as some countries are demonstrating, it’s entirely possible to have one one hundred percent clean electricity – and it may happen sooner than we think.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created a system to monitor how clouds affect large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) farms.
