Dr Prem's Sustainability Guide, Consultancy and Solutions
Companies across the world are working hard around some export restrictions that China has imposed when it comes to rare earth minerals. China supplies the world currently with 90 percent of all rare earth elements and with the restrictions growing and pr
Smart grids have the capacity to provide smooth power supply to every home or commercial establishment connected to it. At present, such systems exist only on a small scale owing to the expensive nature of setting them up. Now, Mitsubishi, the Japanese co
When it comes to the scope of renewable energy, the ambit suddenly doesn\’t stop after its harnessing. Considering that sustainable power is a utility generating industry, its collective reach to people is an important part of the whole scheme. In this reg
Decoding Thermoelectricity While most people out there are pretty familiar with alternate energy sources like wind and solar power, thermoelectricity is not something that immediately comes to mind. People will even think of the rare renewable sources
Modern gadgets and electronics have in a sense been revolutionized by the invention of the lithium ion battery. The simple energy storage system has allowed all electronic gadgets and even electric vehicles improve on their performance and efficiency. But
Alaska’s Kodiak Island will soon see Xtreme Power setting up a grid scale energy storage system, which will back up power from the Pillar Mountain Wind Project. The project currently supplies 10 percent of the island’s power supply. Xtreme Power, a Te
While it is amazing to see new zero energy homes and structures with solar rooftops come up all across the world, these only make for a fraction of all the buildings on the plant. There are many existing edifices that could also do with some green overhau
The report, Worldwide Utility Smart Grid Spending
Forecast, 2011-2015, has brought good news for the global electricity services.
It claims that the total spending on smart grid will reach $46.4 billion by the
year 2015, which indicates a rise of 17.4 per
Training soldiers for battle is not an easy task nor is it energy efficient. A United States state-of-the-art military facility located in New Jersey called the ‘Battle Lab’ sees almost 20,000 military and other related personnel from various armed fo
The National Academy of Sciences defines geoengineering as options involving large-scale engineering of our environment in order to combat or counteract the effects of changes in atmospheric chemistry. As reported in another research, geoengineering techn