Biomass and biofuels offer multi-utilization

Biomass can be defined as biological material that originates from living, or recently living organisms, most often referring to plants or p...

Payback period of domestic wind turbine system

Wind energy is often being touted as clean and environmentally friendly form of renewable energy, the one that can help clean our environmen...

Wind energy – worth the effort or not?

Wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy sectors in the world. We are talking about a clean (greenhouse gas emission-free)...

Huge solar energy improvement - Nano-sized antenna arrays

Solar energy is not only the most popular energy source in the world, it is also the most abundant energy source of them all. Still, solar e...

PV electricity generation is not that complicated

The process of generating electricity with a photovoltaic solar system is not as complicated as many people think it is. It's actually a...

Latest research on environmental impact of wind turbines

Offshore wind farms and noise pollution issue Although majority wind turbines are built on land there are also many suitable offshore locati...

Wind energy development, effects and outlook

Wind energy industry is together with solar energy the fastest developing renewable energy sector with the fairly competitive prices in comp...

Solar energy potential, current issues and future role

Solar energy is form of renewable energy that receives the lion share of media coverage. There are several reasons for this with most obviou...

Quick guide to geothermal energy extraction

Geothermal energy is abundant renewable energy resource that is yet to fulfill its immense potential because geothermal energy is currently ...

Biofuels cannot help decrease greenhouse gas emissions?

Biofuels are touted by many energy experts as one of the energy options that can lead to less greenhouse gas emissions in years to come. But...

Hydrogen production cost-effective soon

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in entire Universe so it comes to very little surprise that scientists are working on different ways t...

Hydrothermal liquefaction facts

Hydrothermal liquefaction refers to a process that can convert all kinds of biomasses to crude bio-oil. This crude bio oil is much similar t...

Thinner solar cells could be the next big thing

Most technological innovations aimed at improving solar cells have focused primarily on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion...

Is wind really the new oil in Texas?

Texas was for many years been primarily characterized with oil production but today things look mighty different compared to what they looke...

Top five renewable energy sources

Renewable energy has started making headlines with many energy experts looking at various renewable energy sources such as solar energy, win...

Solar power - US vs China

Solar energy industry is currently the fastest growing industry in the world, and the most rapidly changing renewable energy sector, where a...

Geothermal energy – Quick homeowners guide

Geothermal energy is a very interesting alternative to traditional fossil fuels in many parts of the world, not just for the electricity gen...

Nanosized silicon leads to faster hydrogen production

Using hydrogen as a fuel has enormous future potential but in order to fully develop this potential science and technology will have to deve...

Ethanol as a fuel – Positives and negatives

Ethanol is a type of renewable fuel source that is getting plenty of talk lately and there is a growing number of signs for E85 gasoline at ...

Quick introduction to energy sources

The energy can take many different forms and this is the main reason why there is a variety of different energy sources. The first thing you...