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Green World Expo

The place to spot the trends that will shape the future: world fairs. The next major event will be held in China, is themed “Better City, Better Life” – The Shanghai World Expo 2010 – and will run from May till October.

Our partners from Leonardo Energy are just starting a new Training course on “Concentrated Solar Thermal Power”. Seville University holds a long tradition on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSTP) research. Its students become key players at research centers and solar energy departments of companies. One of the “fathers” of CSTP in Spain, Manuel Silva, will [...]

Desert current to power Europe

One of the most ambigious renewable energy projects has had a sound start in Munich this week: Destertec. Within the next three years there are to be concrete plans for  solar thermal plants in North Africa, the initiators, twelve major companies, said. Whilst there is still technical research to be done, the main objective now [...]

Sunshine regions in China

China has great renewable resources to explore. So far, much has been done to promote wind power, with some of the world’s largest wind power farms being currently constructed in china. Solar thermal energy is well established and widespread. But, until recently, China’ s policy towards Photo-Voltaic was more reluctant in regard to domestic power [...]

The safest nuclear power station in the world

Today 17% of the world’s electricity comes from nuclear power plants. Right now 14 countries are building a total of 6 nuclear power stations, some in an effort to reduce CO-emissions, others because they find it a cheap alternative to other, saver methods to create electricity. France is even making a profit from selling nuclear [...]

Australia to build World’s largest solar power station

Australia’s Government announced plans to build what it says is the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts (that would be enough to power about 800,000 homes, based on Bloomberg calculations). Australians Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government will invest A$1.4 billion ($1 billion) with industry in this project which [...]

 

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