Category: Energy Industry

Can Fusion Technology Help to Make Clean Energy Cheaper?

Despite the advances of solar and wind energies in recent years, 80 percent of the world still relies on fossil fuels as its source of energy. However, it is now generally accepted this needs to change. This has spurred the search for a clean and cheap energy source. Fusion as alternate energy source Enter fusion, tipped as a hot contender for the world’s energy source that could replace fossil fuels. That this source of energy is being taken up seriously is evident from the funding of fusion startups by billionaires, such as Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen and Peter Thiel in the past few years. They have set up pioneering companies, such as General Fusion and TAE Technologies. Despite the setback suffered by the National Ignition Facility (the US fusion effort continuing for the past over two decades) new fusion concepts are being funded and the research is taking a new…

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Sun Energy

Identifying our relationship with the sun on a regular basis is not a problem, as most of the time when we come out in the day, we look up and exclaim, “The sun is out!”, or “It’s going to be a sunny day!” However, most of us never consider the role the sun might play in our lives as well as in the sustenance of our livelihood and our environment. Scientific revelations denote the Universe is inhabited by different galaxies or solar systems, that the earth is in one of such galaxies in the universe; and that each solar system has a sun. Revealingly, we would observe that the name given to our galaxy i.e. the “Solar system” denotes the energy received from the sun. Thus, if our galaxy is named after the energy received from the sun, and each of the thousands of galaxies in the universe has its…

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Importance of Renewable Energy and Types of Renewable Energy Resources

Today, the majority of the world is currently dependent on various sources of fossil fuel, such as coal, gas, or oil. These resources are finite in nature, and the process of unearthing and using them is very damaging to the environment as a whole. Renewable energy is energy taken from sources which don’t run out, such as the sun, the wind, and the sea. Though we are still at the beginning of our journey into how to use renewable energy, we have already made huge strides in harnessing it. One way we have moved forward in harnessing renewable energy is by the use of feedback actuators, or linear actuators, in our set ups. Solar panels in particular have benefitted from this, as they have been able to pick up much more energy than they could before. Linear actuators have made solar panels much more moveable, so they can follow the…

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Taking The Plunge Into Alternative Energy

Last year was when my wife and I moved to Montana, found a comfortable home sitting on several acres with a beautiful view of the mountains. The only problem was that the property was off the grid. In fact, everybody in the subdivision produced their own power including the local bed and breakfast. It does not mean that the house was primitive. It has a wind turbine, solar panels, a generator, a battery bank and inverter, as well as a full range of appliances including a dishwasher, propane furnace, satellite TV, stove, refrigerator, and even a washer and dryer. I had previously run a cogeneration power plant prior to coming to Montana, so I was not too worried about producing my own electricity, so we ended up buying the property.

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Turn Vibrations In To Electricity

With the current talk about global warming, and the impact of carbon emissions on our planet, focus is now shifting to green energy, and wind electricity has reigned supreme in this regard. People, organizations, and even governments are investing heavily in coming up with wind turbines to generate the much needed electricity. However, traditionally wind energy has been associated with huge installation costs, expensive turbines, and so forth. In this regard, researchers have come up with the less expensive Vibro wind set up, which uses less space, is not as expensive, and produces much electricity. These Vibro wind panels will work like the solar panels do, where they will be fitted on top of buildings, where they will not only generate electricity, but will also convert even minor wind breezes. Unlike windmills and turbines that need plenty of space for them to be installed, the Vibro wind panels will herald…

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Simple ways to save energy

Energy is a central economic factor for any country and especially for any household in any nation.  Governments consider energy both as an economic impulsion and also as a political factor that can generate the much needed votes for any major election – consider the election of Barrack Obama, the United States President. However, while these governments seek more energy not all of them, in fact a few, consider Ways to save energy. That has always been left to the homeowners and business holders who have more to loose in terms of money if they don’t device simple time tested ways to save energy. It is for such that the simple ways to save energy is given because as earlier said they have more to loose. Monitor the meter They say that it is important to know your enemy before you set out to fight him; the same applies for…

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Beware of the Batteries That You Use!

Have you ever noticed that the batteries are becoming smaller and smaller day after day? Many scientists and researchers have been finding the effective way to shrink the batteries into the smallest size as possible! In this case, Jae Kwon, an assistant professor of Electrical and computer engineering has recently developed a nuclear energy source, which is smaller, lighter and more efficient than the common batteries. Kwon’s described that the new discovered radioisotope battery can provide power density as much as six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries. Kwon and his research team members have been cooperated and working on building a small nuclear battery. According to the information, the radioisotope batteries are having the size and thickness of a penny, but it’s powerful enough to power various micro or nanoelectromechanical systems. Even though the nuclear power sources have always been a safety concern, they’ve claimed to be safe,…

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