Vada Energy blog

Most of us still use today the traditional incandescent light bulbs to light our homes. But as the traditional light bulbs have a high energy consumption, most turn nowadays to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).

All the world is talking today about USA’s 44th president, Barack Obama. We will just review his environment agenda.
A long time ago, President Obama announced his agenda as very different from what we are used to. He lets us see that US economy can not only not lose, but also win from keeping environmental policies [...]

Google announced the release of a free software that allows users to monitor their home electricity use and mitigate the effects of global warming, without paying anything extra for the effort.

A team of researchers at the University of Essex has received European funds worth 2.5 million pounds to complete a project to construct a robotic fish shaped like Carp able to monitor the pollution from ports.

The era of Zero Energy Home (ZEH) construction has taken another step forward with the announcement of a new US Department of Energy project in Tennessee.
The vision of ‘zero energy homes’ is to transform the residential built environment from a major consumer of energy, to a neutral, or net zero energy environment where the annual [...]

Enter Adage (Chadds Ford, PA) a new joint venture biomass development company formed by nuclear energy vendor AREVA (Bethesda, MD) and electrical utility giant Duke Energy, N.C).
ADAGE will be focused on enabling green biopower energy solutions for the US electricity market tapping waste organic materials like wood chips.
BioPower via Waste to Energy?

Bio energy is a powerful concept.The idea is simple. Tap the power of biology for energy production, energy conversion, energy storage and carbon utilization.
Why biology?

The key word for the cleantech (or alternative energy) world is momentum.
Market conditions change, as do consumer attitudes and expectations. If alternative energy concepts fail to live up to their hype, public support could fade along with political will and policies that enable growth.

Futurists often use scenario archetypes of world views to speak in general terms about forecasts on the future.
When most people talk about the future of energy their core set of assumptions fall into one or two major forecasts of change. These four archetype scenarios are useful in revealing the wide spectrum of assumptions about the [...]

Reproducing the power of the sun on Earth is no easy task, but an international team of physicists based in Europe is now preparing to give it a go.
If their attempt to develop nuclear fusion works, it could provide a limitless and clean source of energy that promises to end reliance on the fossil fuels [...]

Road trips define America as much as baseball and apple pie, lemonade and lightning bugs. But with gas prices climbing past $4 per gallon and growing sensitivity to the environmental costs of driving, they’ve become more difficult to justify than ever. There are ways, though, to compromise - not on the natural splendor and the [...]

1. Easy on the Throttle
The single most important technique to make your existing car more efficient is speed, or lack thereof. In the city, avoid jackrabbit starts and lead-footed stops - this kills your fuel economy as well as your brakes. On the highway wind resistance is your enemy, and the faster you go the [...]

A new catalyst that can split carbon dioxide gas could allow us to use carbon from the atmosphere as a fuel source in a similar way to plants.
“Breaking open the very stable bonds in CO2 is one of the biggest challenges in synthetic chemistry,” says Frederic Goettmann, a chemist at the Max Planck Institute for [...]

Global Resource Corporation (GRC) found a way to convert all plastics scrap and especially tire rubber to… guess what… DIESEL oil! The secret behind this invention is the generation of hundreds (to be more specific, 1200) of microwave spectrum frequencies, each of them acting on some hydrocarbons from the material to be “melted”.

Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzel, along with a team of scientists have demonstrated that biofuels, once thought to be the saving of traditional fuel industry, pollutes 70% more than the fossil fuels. They calculated the emissions released by growing the crops such as maize, rapeseed and cane sugar to produce biofuels. The team of American, [...]