Category Archives: Alternative Energy

Hydropower and Geothermal Growth Slowing Down:Report

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

According to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service (www.worldwatch.org) both types of energy saw slower growth.Following are some findings. Interestingly, although hydropower plays the least important role in the Middle East, the region … Continue reading →

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Wind Power Can Prevent Climate Change

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Though there is enough power in Earth’s winds to be a primary source of near-zero emission electric power for the world, large-scale high altitude wind power generation is unlikely to substantially affect climate.That is the conclusion of a Lawrence Livermore … Continue reading →

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Sixty years after the transistor Now Switching State of Matter May Provide a New Ultra Low Power Devices

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

 Sixty years after the transistor began a technological revolution that transformed nearly every aspect of our daily lives, a new transistor brings innovations that may help to do so again. Developed at RIKEN, the device uses the electrostatic accumulation of … Continue reading →

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Quick Post:Student finds Way of Turning Plastic into Biofuel

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

A method for generating biofuel by breaking down plastics using a low-cost catalyst will be developed further in the United Kingdom next month . The process was originally developed by a sixteen-year-old Egyptian student, Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad, from the Zahran … Continue reading →

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