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Hywind – the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine

The Hywind concept combines known technologies in a completely new setting and opens up the possibility for capturing wind energy in deep-water environments. http://www.statoil.com/en/TechnologyInnovation/NewEnergy/RenewablePowerProduction/Offshore/Hywind/Pages/HywindPuttingWindPowerToTheTest.aspx

Thames Water turns to 'poo power' for renewable electricity generation | Environment

The sludge incinerator at the Crossness sewage works, south-east London, where the electricity will be generated. Photograph: Nic Hamilton/Alamy http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/26/thames-water-sewage-flakes-electricity
The Andasol solar power station is Europe's first commercial parabolic trough solar thermal power plant, located near Guadix in Andalusia , Spain . Its name is a combination of Anda lusia and Sol (Sun in Spanish).

Andasol Solar Power Station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andasol_Solar_Power_Station
http://www.solar-fuel.net/en/home/the-solution/the-alpha-plant-is-in-operation/

The alpha plant is in operation - SolarFuel GmbH - Electricity from renewable sources

Prototype with a connected electric load of 25 kW and an efficiency of 40 percent The basic feasibility of the method was successfully proven in a pilot plant on the kW scale.

SolarFuel und Audi: e-gas: GLOCALIST Medien - Medien für Wirtschaftsethik, Nachhaltigkeit & soziale Verantwortung: Eine andere Information ist möglich

Autos können künftig mit Gas völlig klimaneutral über die Straßen rollen. Eine neue Technologie der SolarFuel GmbH wandelt zu diesem Zweck Ökostrom- überschüsse in erneuerbares Methan um. Jetzt wird die Herstellung des Kraftstoffs weltweit zum ersten Mal auch großtechnisch eingesetzt: Am 28. http://www.glocalist.com/news/kategorie/wirtschaft/titel/solarfuel-und-audi-e-gas/
It is funny how things work. The reusables industry has been toiling for years and years to raise awareness about reusable packaging. Now, in a single announcement, eBay has generated a tsunami of publicity about reusable transport packaging with the introduction of its new reusable box. For example, a key word search comprised of “eBay reusable box” as of today has generated around 314,000 Google search results, versus only 294,000 for the much more mature term of “reusable packaging.” The reusable box in question is the eBay reusable box, designed by the eBay Green Team. eBay has purchased 100,000 of them in three sizes for a pilot test.

eBay Green Box Bags Exposure for Reusable Packaging | Packaging Revolution

http://packagingrevolution.net/greenbox/
http://knowledge.allianz.com/environment/energy/?341/road-energy-systems-heat-from-street Depending on the level of activity, the human body generates about 60 to 100 Watts of energy in the form of heat, about the same amount of heat given off by the average light bulb. All day, every day, the body is switched on. About 250,000 human light bulbs hurry through Stockholm Central Station each day, burning brightly as they rush to catch trains, giving off enough heat to raise the temperature of the cavernous building to a constant 22-25 degrees Celsius (71-77 degrees Fahrenheit). This is too warm, and so the station uses power to cool the air inside . This is doubly wasteful: wasteful of the excess warm air, and wasteful of the power used to cool that air. The energy-efficient answer, devised by state-owned Swedish property developer Jernhusen, is to draw the excess body heat out of the station through heat exchangers in the ventilation system.

Road Energy Systems: Heat from the Street

Body Heat Heating Building in Stockholm — Nordic Energy Solutions

The body heat from Stockholm central station’s 250 000 daily commuters now warms the office block next door, slashing heating costs by 25%. http://www.nordicenergysolutions.org/inspirational/body-heat-heating-building-in-stockholm