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Greenerator: Investor wanted!

Foto: Jonathan Globerson

Expert talk with Jonathan Globerson, industrial designer from Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Our topics: Globerson’s search for a business investor, ways for dwelling residents to produce their own renewable energy and the future of the green generator.

In the autumn of 2010 industrial designer Jonathan Globerson showcased the Greenerator (the CleanEnergy Project reported). Now the US American is looking for a business investor to bring the Greenerator to the market. The residential, green generator is a compact device, that combines solar and wind energy to produce renewable energy right on your apartment’s balcony. In optimal conditions the Greenerator would produce about 1,000 kilowatt-hours annually.

Mr. Globerson, you developed the Greenerator. What exactly is its function? How does it work?

The Greenerator is a compact solar panel and wind turbine [mehr...]

The Great paradox of China: Green energy and Black skies

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China is on its way to becoming the world’s largest producer of renewable energy, yet it remains one of the most polluted countries on earth. A [mehr...]

$3 billion grants to boost renewable energies in the U.S.

The U.S. government will spend $ 3 billion to support projects that invest in renewable projects within the U.S. The grant money, that will be paid in form of tax credits, will go out to companies that start their project in 2009 or 2010. It is estimated that this stimulus will support about 5000 new projects, averaging about $600,000 per project.

This grant [mehr...]

A potential breakthrough in harnessing the sun’s energy

Wikimedia from Yale 360

Repost from Yale360

New solar thermal technology overcomes a major challenge facing solar power – how to store the sun’s heat for use at [mehr...]

The paradox of knowledge vs. action

From an interview with the CEO of Duke Energy, Mr. Rogers, on 60 minutes, it again became distressingly clear that some people are not able to “connect the dots”, as the US-based climatologist Jim Hansen calls it.

Even though Mr. Rogers admits that his company is one of the largest CO2 emitters of the states, that the US needs a federal law to limit CO2 [mehr...]