Green Tech and Gadgets

Potato Power Fires Up Organic Battery

Can Mr. Potatohead outrun the Energizer Bunny? Researchers in Israel and California develop a potato battery, 50 times cheaper than the Energizer equivalent. Here's...

Clean Rivers and 8 Israel-Related Headlines, Week of June 8, 2010

Clean rivers in Israel, youth environmental projects, Israel's upcoming greenhouse gas registry and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech and the environment. Image by...

Lots of ‘Ifs’ – But Afghan Mineral Reserves Offer Hope for the War-torn Country (and for the Electric Car Industry)

Afghanistan's desolate Ghazni Province may hold the world’s largest deposits of lithium. (Image: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) Just days after the Afghan War became...

Heat pumps and cleantech in Helsinki, Finland

Other areas for business development, partnership and expertise? Processing forest product waste (which comes from the pulp and paper industry) –– in bio-diesel, Finland’s Neste has built the biggest renewable energy plant in Singapore for certified palm oil. And st1, another company, can efficiently create bio-ethanol from the food industry with end products going to farms as feedstock.

MENA Geothermal Powers West Bank Palestine Geothermally

With a burgeoning population and no natural resources to provide energy, Palestine has found a hero in MENA Geothermal. In a world where natural...

Cycling for Peace as Israeli Arabs, Jews and Bedouins Kids Get Free Bikes and Clubs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43mUeMB_Go&feature=player_embedded The Bedouin village of Um Bateen, just outside Beersheba in southern Israel, has no paved roads - which makes it the perfect place for...

Tigo Energy and 8 Israel-Related Headlines, Week of June 1, 2010

Alternative energy contracts with the US, Israel-Turkey relations, growing Israel-China business ties and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech. Image via Tigo...

Masdar Awards $600 Million Contract for ‘World’s Largest’ Thermal Solar Plant in UAE

The United Arab Emirates's Shams 1 project will incorporate hundreds of parabolic trough collectors. (Image via Solar Thermal Magazine) Abu Dhabi’s Masdar clean energy company has...

Ormat Set to Release Alaska's Geothermal Energy Potential

With dwindling natural gas reserves, will South Alaska be powered with geothermal energy? Ormat may be the first to open Alaskan territories, still virgin...

Volcano and Hurricane Damages Ormat's Guatemala Geothermal Plant, Minimal Damage and No Lives Lost

How geothermal energy wells look, and work. Image via Academic.evergreen With contacts and plants in place around the world, Ormat founded in Israel and headquartered...

TaKaDu and SolarEdge Among Red Herring 100 Winners

Israel's TaKaDu and SolarEdge have developed solutions in the water and solar fields that make current technologies more efficient. Israel's TaKaDu and SolarEdge have...

New Hadera Desalination Plant May Help Restore Water to Lower Jordan River

As seawater flows into the Hadera Desalination Plant, will fresh water flow into the dying Jordan River? The world's largest desalination plant using the reverse...

SolarEdge Disrupts Solar Tech

Disruptor: In the past week SolarEdge has announced partnerships to distribute its technology across Australia and Europe and has been named a Red Herring...

Wind And 9 Israel-Related Cleantech Headlines, Week of May 23, 2010

Israel's plan to use renewable energy to power highway lighting, Italy's plan to use Israeli technology for highway signs, the OECD and more headlines...

Canadian Politician McGuinty On Cleantech Business Mission to Israel and the West Bank

Canada, unlike the United States, is made up of provinces. One of its richest, and home to Toronto is Ontario – a province whose leader wants...

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