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Hybrid London buses that use batteries and a motor will now start recharging at stops, wirelessly. The inductive charge should mean the engine won’t need to be used as much, or at all. The inductive charging, built into the bus stops, will be trialled by TfL in four stops in east London from next year. The special Enviro400H E400 hybrid

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News that official figures showed wind turbines provided more power to the UK grid than coal plants on five separate days is of no surprise, considering the tantalising hints we received during August. But RenewableUK, the country’s leading renewable trade association, announced Monday that UK wind had exceeded coal on the 3rd, 9th, 11th, 12th, and 17th of August. “Wind

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The Indian government is set to start work on a large project to install several renewable energy-powered mobile communication towers across nine states in the central belt of the country as it pushes for development in economically underdeveloped regions. Last month, the central government gave approval to an ambitious project that would see as many as 2,200 mobile communication towers

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By Jesse Morris. Four short years ago, the U.S. solar industry surpassed expectations by installing 340 MW of solar at a cost of $6.40 per watt in the first half of 2010. How times have changed. In the first quarter of this year alone, the U.S. installed 1,330 MW of solar for an average $2.36 per watt. In other words,

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The smartphone capital of the world has found an innovative and environmentally-friendly way to charge all those homegrown Samsungs and other mobile devices—Seoul, South Korea, is planning to install five charging stations powered by three mini-hydroelectric turbines embedded in the manmade Cheonggyecheon River that runs through the capital’s downtown. Seoul-based startup Enomad says the stations will be able to charge

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Did you know that melanin, the pigment in hair, is light sensitive and can be used as a conductor? Well, that’s what an 18 year old in Nepal recently discovered, and is now using human hair to replace silicon in solar panels. Since the price of hair is considerably cheaper than silicon, this enterprising youth may have just found a

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Mentor Graphics Corporation announced its new membership in the German-based European Centre for Power Electronics (ECPE), a European consortium focused on the research, education, technology transfer, and promotion of power electronics globally. Mentor Graphics is the only electronic design automation (EDA) company represented in this industry-driven research network, comprised of over 150 organizations (75 companies and 76 institutions). Mentor Graphics

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Lockheed Martin has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Sun Catalytix Corporation, complementing existing Lockheed Martin capabilities in the area of energy management and efficiency. The purchase includes certain intellectual property, contracts, facilities and the transfer of the company’s approximately 25 employees to Lockheed Martin. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed and are not

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Qualstar Corporation has expanded its ac-dc power supply offerings by adding high-efficiency medically-certified power supplies to its N2Power brand product portfolio. The ML Series of ac-dc power supplies range from 5 Watts to 1200 Watts of power and features universal input with brown out protection in a variety of output voltage models. The 1U/2U dimensions, high power density and efficient

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Mean Well Enterprise Co. Ltd. has expanded the HLG family with the new 600W HLG-600H LED power supplies. Like all of the current HLG series, these new models accept 90- to 305Vac universal input. The HLG-600H includes nine models with different nominal dc output voltages between 12V and 54V that LED lighting applications most frequently require. With an aluminum case

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