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Owens Corning to Lighten Load on Wind Turbines with New Blade Fabric
Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) recently announced it will begin selling a high-performance reinforcing fabric for use in the manufacture of wind turbine blades that will allow designers to reduce the weight of 2-megawatt wind turbine by one metric ton.
Finnish EV Team Learns a $400,000 Lesson in Humility
The Electric RaceAbout team from Finland considered the favorite by many to win the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, may be looking back to the hours leading up to the final race and wishing it hadn’t been so confident about its chances.
Tata Steel to Turn Steel Sheets into Solar Cells Using Spray-on PV Coating
Tata Steel Europe is developing a revolutionary technology to integrate solar energy systems in the building structures using the dye-sensitized technology.
Sauer Energy Unveils Prototype Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine
The image most people have in their minds when they think of wind turbines are the big, white horizontal-axis wind turbines with their massive blades spinning slowly on a wind-swept plain. But the clean energy revolution–if, in fact, it is a revolution–has room for more than just one design of wind turbine. But vertical-axis wind [...]
eBay Testing 100,000 Reusable Shipping Boxes
No, eBay doesn’t exactly ship anything. For that matter, they don’t even make anything that requires shipping. But with a community of millions of active eBay buyers and sellers, there’s no reason they can’t launch a product that could make a significant dent in the company’s environmental footprint. On Wednesday, the world’s largest online auction [...]
