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Continuing its strong growth, the United States installed 1,354 megawatts (MW)[i] of solar photovoltaics (PV) in Q3 2014, up 41 percent over the same period last year. The numbers come from the latest edition of GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, released today. According to the report, […]

Scientists at the University of Maryland have developed a tiny but powerful battery prototype, which uses a hole in a ceramic base for its innovative and unique design. The miniaturization of battery components and the race to develop faster-charging batteries took another step forward recently, when academics at the University of Maryland published a paper […]

The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center has received its Title V air operation permit from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which includes regulations on air emissions that the biomass plant is already meeting. The biomass plant was given its Title V permit, which replaces its prior construction air permit, after months of air-quality monitoring, according […]

For the past year, Swire Properties Inc. has touched the imagination of Floridians with talk of building America’s first “Climate Ribbon,” an environmental management system that uses nature to cool the outdoor air. Now that the ribbon is starting to take form at Swire’s huge $1 billion Brickell City Centre, it won’t be long before […]

A Boynton Beach startup was named one of the 50 most promising startups in the world by Global Entrepreneurship Week. Peerless Wind Systems is developing a wind turbine for the urban market, President and CEO Jay Moskowitz said. The helix-shaped turbine, designed by a kinetic artist to be visually appealing, can be mounted on a pole or a […]

Imagine 1000 gigafactories – that’s what we’ll be seeing in the coming decade. Tesla is everyone’s favourite motor car company, a darling of investors large and small. Rev heads who have driven a Tesla give it the nod, even Japanese uber conglomerates are lining up to get in on the action. It’s a marriage between […]

Imagine 1000 gigafactories – that’s what we’ll be seeing in the coming decade. Tesla is everyone’s favourite motor car company, a darling of investors large and small. Rev heads who have driven a Tesla give it the nod, even Japanese uber conglomerates are lining up to get in on the action. It’s a marriage between high tech performance […]

If we’re going to make a move away from fossil fuels, it’s not going to happen overnight; too much of our existing infrastructure and technology is based on coal and petroleum, which would take a lot of time and money to replace. However, synthetic fuels would be a good interim option, especially if they could […]

If we’re going to make a move away from fossil fuels, it’s not going to happen overnight; too much of our existing infrastructure and technology is based on coal and petroleum, which would take a lot of time and money to replace. However, synthetic fuels would be a good interim option, especially if they could […]

The Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research and Technology at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute was awarded a $1.77 million grant from NOAA. The funding will allow CIOERT scientists to continue work in developing advanced underwater technologies, as well as exploring and researching regions of the eastern U.S. continental shelf and vulnerable deep and shallow […]