With a 15% efficiency, which is middling for present technology the area you need is 2 trillion Watts or 53,333 square kilometers. That?s a square 231 kilometers on a side.
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Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar Energy
Dividing the global yearly demand and we arrive at 496,805 square kilometers (191,817 square miles) as the area required to power the world with solar panels. This is roughly equal to the area of Spain.
Continue readingGreenpeace rechaza la subvención a la quema de carbón en las centrales térmicas
El Decreto propuesto por el ministro Sebastián promueve la emisión innecesaria de 25 millones de toneladas de CO2 anuales y perjudica a las energías renovables (eólica, termosolar, fotovoltaica).
Continue readingRepsol y el EVE crearán una red de recarga de vehículos eléctricos
Acuerdo entre Repsol y el Ente Vasco de Energía para crear una red de recarga de coches eléctricos en Euskadi.
Continue readingRepsol and the Basque energy board agree to create a network for electric vehicles in the Basque country
Repsol?s Chairman, Antonio Brufau, and the Basque Regional Minister for Industry and Energy, Bernabe Unda, agreed to jointly develop a network to recharge electric cars in the Basque Country.
Continue readingRenault?Nissan venderá vehículos eléctricos en México en 2011
La Alianza Renault-Nissan firma un acuerdo con la Ciudad de México para prmover los coches eléctricos. El primer vehículo eléctrico que se comercializará será el Leaf.
Continue readingReVolt Develops Rechargeable High Energy Zinc-Air Battery
ReVolt has developed rechargeable zinc-air batteries that can store three times the energy of lithium ion batteries, by volume, while costing only half as much.
Continue readingGrupo Saft, líder mundial en baterías para los sectores aeronáutico y espacial
La multinacional de origen francés lidera la revolución tecnológica en el sector de las baterías de iones de litio para aplicaciones aeronáuticas y espaciales.
Continue readingFuture of Solar Cells – An Optional Accessory to a Necessity in the Automotive Industry
Automotive industry is undergoing a radical change wherein traditional internal combustion (IC) engines are being replaced by battery-powered motors.
Continue readingStorage Material Improves Energy Density Of Lithium-ion Battery
Researchers at TU Graz have developed a new method that utilizes silicon for a lithium-ion battery. Its storage capacity is 10 times higher than the graphite substrate which has been used in batteries.
Continue readingUltracapacitors are expected to displace the lithium-ion battery
Global Ultracapacitors Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2015: The expected takeoff in hybrid electric vehicles sales will drive the demand for ultracapacitors in the automotive sector.
Continue readingRenault?Nissan To Bring Electric Vehicles To Mexico In 2011
The Renault?Nissan Alliance and the Mexico City Government announced a partnership that paves the way for the introduction of the Nissan LEAF in Mexico?s capital city in 2011.
Continue readingFord selects Azure for the drivetrain for Transit Connect
Ford and Azure Dynamics Come Together to Deliver Battery Electric Commercial Vehicles. Azure Dynamics Corp. has replaced SEV US Corp. as developer of the drivetrain for Ford battery-electric Transit.
Continue readingChina?s $1.5 Billion Wind Power Deal in Texas
Lone Star, Meet Red Star: a $1.5 billion wind farm in Texas, paid for by Chinese banks and to be supplied with Chinese made wind turbines. China-US Wind Farm JV Plan Calls for 240 Units of 2.5MW Turbines.
Continue readingEnercon has installed more than 15,000 wind energy converters with a power of 18.5 GW
Enercon, 25th anniversary, from a small founder-owned company with
innovative ideas for a ?niche? product to the German market leader in
wind power.
La demanda eléctrica cae un 4,6% hasta octubre y la eólica crece un 32,8%
La demanda de energía eléctrica bajó un 2,7% en el mes de octubre. En los diez primeros meses del año, la demanda ha alcanzado los 208.554 GWh, un 4,6 % menos que en el mismo periodo del 2008.
Continue readingIberdrola Renovables, líder en eólica en Castilla-La Mancha
Iberdrola Renovables ha generado 100 empleos en tres años en el Alto Tajo, donde tiene el mayor parque eólico de España, un aula didáctica sobre energías renovables y su primera planta de biomasa forestal.
Continue readingBolivia: The myth of the Saudi Arabia of lithium
Bolivia produces no lithium, though it is sometimes called ?the Saudi Arabia of lithium? because its still-untapped salares are thought to contain nearly 50 percent of the world?s estimated lithium reserves.
Continue readingObama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid
Applicants say investments will create tens of thousands of jobs, save energy and empower consumers to cut their electric bills.
Continue readingIberdrola Leads Initiative to Roll Out Electric Cars In Valencia
The goals of the ?1 million, 21-month initiative include developing and installing a recharging station prototype for electric vehicles.
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