Renewable Energy ideas and trends

Massimo Iosa Ghini's Solar Powered Monorail

The Energy Belt designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini is a solar powered monorail proposed as a sustainable transportation solution, connecting the Italian city of Bologna with the city’s international airport.

Cars Powered by Their Own Waste Move Closer to Being A Reality

By Jim Moscater

A company that markets products based upon thermoelectric technology is entering the fifth phase of a project that would allow an automobile to capture it’s own engine exhaust and recycle it into electric power.

Austrian Nuclear Plant Becomes Solar Power Station

By Ebba Akerman

This past weekend saw the inauguration of an Austrian nuclear plant that’s been transformed into a solar power station.

Pic: Energy Independence on Independence Day

By Ebba Akerman

eSolar celebrated 4th of July in Lancaster, California, with a programmed birthday card made out of modular architecture and sun-tracking heliostats, small flat mirrors that reflect sunlight to a thermal receiver which powers a steam turbine producing clean energy.

[Via: Clean Technica]

100% Renewable Energy For Sony Europe

By Ebba Akerman

Sony Europe announced today that it will power its 32 largest sites throughout Europe, large meaning more than 100 employees, entirely from renewable resources. In a press release, Serge Foucher, Executive Vice President of Sony Europe, stated that the company has reduced its Co2 emission from fiscal year 2000 – 2008 by 90%.
The company has achieved these reduction through energy saving programs on all sites, “eco-thinking” as well as looking at shipping, reducing packaging and product energy use.
Via Environmental Leader