Not merely content with being the up and coming global economic superpower, many in the renewable energy industry have predicted that China could be the next major player in renewables – especially considering the fact that they currently lead the world in the manufacture of solar cells, which...

Recent development and research by engineers at Princeton University in the US has lead to some predictions, however tongue-in-cheek, that rather than wind or solar power human power may actually be the coming force in renewable technology. The engineers, through their research, developed a unit that...

Renewable energy has become a topic of hot debate recently, with such high-profile governmental conferences as Kyoto and Copenhagen looking into issues of climate change and alternative energy production methods with the aim of decreasing dependence of the use of fossil fuels for energy production in...

Wind power has, despite its abundance as a potential power source, sparked a good deal of controversy with the wind turbines necessary to generate the electricity our homes need conjured up as towering eyesores on our landscape. One of the principle concerns of those who would be living nearest wind...

Solar cells are familiar to many of us, and we can see examples of their usefulness in many aspects of our everyday life. Solar-powered calculators are perhaps the most commonly-seen example and they, along with never needing a battery, often don’t come with an on/off button. As long as there is...