House to Supply Power to Grid; Biomass Plays Big Role; ArmorLite Safety Coating for CFL; Citaro fuel cell bus; Big Wind-Turbine Plant in U.S.

Energy Positive House to Supply Power to Grid in Sweden Swedish designers are currently constructing Villa Akarp, a residence that aims to combine energy conservation, energy recovery and energy generation technologies. If all goes as planned, the home will actually produce more energy than it uses and provide the excess to the grid.

Biomass Plays Big Role in UK Renewable Energy While the market currently is dominated by utilities, if the government enacts feed-in tariffs for biomass generators in 2010, as expected, it will be more financially viable for the commercial sector to adopt

ArmorLite Safety Coating for CFL’s Basically a regular spiral fluorescent light bulb inside a protective Safety Coating, the ArmorLite bulb looks like an incandescent bulb, but will keep all the broken shards of glass and mercury safely inside the skin in the event that it breaks.

Citaro fuel cell bus in Hamburg cuts fuel consumption in half Daimler this week unveiled the first of its new generation Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid transit buses. The combination of the new stack design and a hybrid configuration using lithium ion batteries allows the fuel cells to operate at a more constant output with the batteries taking care of the transient acceleration needs. The result is that fuel consumption is cut in half compared to the older buses and the new buses have a range of 155 miles.

A-Power Plans Big Wind-Turbine Plant in U.S. A-Power, the Chinese wind-turbine maker, and local partners U.S. Renewable Energy Group said they would build a massive wind-turbine plant in the U.S. that could produce 1,100 megawatts of wind turbines a year and employ more than 1,000 U.S. workers. The factory would use U.S.-made wind-turbine components, the company said.