http://www.ted.com What’s the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage — so we can have power on tap even when the sun’s not out and the wind’s not blowing. In this accessible, inspiring talk, Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. As he says: “We need to think about the problem differently. We need to think big. We need to think cheap.”

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Saul Griffith on kites as the future of renewable energy

http://www.ted.com In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.

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Bloom Box Power And Energy The Future of Fuel Cells

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What’s the Renewable Energy Solution for the USA?

$1.4 billion in Federal funds will go towards building a solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert. Meanwhile, China has plans to build a solar plant 25×25 miles wide. The Mojave Desert Solar story http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/brightsource-energy-gets-14-billion-loan-for-t… China’s story http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/01/06/china-announces-worlds-largest-solar-plant/

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Torresol Energy Gemasolar Plant Construction

Baseload solar power is here and now. The future of energy. Not coal, not gas, not nuclear. Gemasolar is the first commercial-scale plant in the world to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. The relevance of this plant lies in its technological uniqueness, since it opens up the way for new [...]

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Wave power: how it works

A silent but informative introduction to how wave power works. The power in our seas is vast – and wave power is at an innovative stage. According to government and industry figures, wave and tidal power combined could meet 12.5 per cent of today’s electricity demand – economically and practically – by 2025.It’s an opportunity [...]

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Wave power station

The world’s first commercial-scale wave-power station has gone live off the coast of Portugal. This footage shows how the 140m-long snake-like devices work

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IDEOL, floating offshore wind energy

Ideol is a start-up company developping floating platforms for the offshore wind industry. The company has patented two innovative products: – a floater designed specifically for offshore wind and mass production, which construction cost is twice to three times lower than existing solutions – a mobility solution, enabling to reduce wake losses in wind farms [...]

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SeaTwirl Prototype III – Sea Trial

A successful test installation has been carried out in the sea near Halmstad on the Swedish west coast. Intensive weeks of building, launching and tests at sea have now been completed and the technology has proven to work excellent.

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