New wave energy device to be developed in Pembrokeshire

Cornwall-based Wave-tricity has secured £4m in EU funds through the Welsh Government to develop and test a new device called the Ocean Wave Rower The latest project to develop and test a wave energy device off the Pembrokeshire coast will be launched today. The £5.8m scheme by Cornwall-based company Wave-tricity has secured £4m in EU … Read more

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Costa Rica is trying to go a year without fossil fuels

Costa Rica has been powered solely by renewable energy for 121 days and is on pace to hit an entire year without the use of fossil fuels, achieving a milestone that, if replicated globally, would significantly curb the threat of climate change. Last year, Costa Rica went 285 days without using fossil fuels and was 99 percent powered … Read more

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QEG Breakthrough in China

This week we here at QEG Academy would like to extend a special thank you to QEG builder Xingdou from China. We first noticed his QEG replication videos on Youtube back in the summer of 2015, and he has been showing steady progress ever since

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Solar panel farm grows 17,000 tons of food without soil, pesticides, fossil fuels or groundwater

A new agricultural technique may have just solved the problem of growing food in some of the world’s most inhospitable places – locations that don’t currently support traditional agriculture. In addition, the technique can save what are clearly finite resources from extinction, something all of us should clearly favor. As reported by Natural Blaze, as … Read more

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Battery made from a diamond and nuclear waste could last thousands of years

A team of physicists and chemists at the University of Bristol have developed a new type of battery that could change the way we think of long-term energy storage and electricity generation. The researchers looked at the problem of nuclear waste and came up with a battery that uses a man-made diamond to turn that … Read more

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A solar farm rises from the ashes of a coal-burning power plant

One of the worst sources of pollution in New England will be home to clean, renewable energy. The Mount Tom Power Station in Holyoke, Massachusetts—known as one of the worst polluters in New England—is on its way to a renewable rebirth. The plant’s owners broke ground on a 5.76-megawatt solar farm in October on the … Read more

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Thermoelectric paint could capture heat energy on any surface

Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute have developed a thermoelectric paint that can generate electricity from waste heat. The paint could help power homes, vehicles and even ships. The idea of harnessing the energy in waste heat … Read more

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A new asian super-powered grid: Japan proposed it, and China likes ..

Not all the big news during the last two weeks has been about space. There’s been another development, one apparently just starting, that probably has a few jaws on the floor in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Canberra, New Delhi, and a few other places. In fact, when Mr. J.H. shared this article, I had to … Read more

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Renewable energy is about to get supersized

Investors are pouring money into supergrids, which can carry electricity generated by huge but remote wind and solar farms across national borders. A new report from Navigant Research finds that investment in supergrids—large-scale power networks that could carry energy from wind and solar farms and across international borders—will hit $10.2 billion by 2025. That’s up … Read more

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