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The Vertical Wind Turbines of Coriolis

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Jordanian Activists Pilot Test Clear Thin Film PV Cells on Mideast Greenhouses

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Lebanon and United Nations to Develop Solar Energy Projects

Lebanon's Energy Ministry plans to work with the UN's regional development project, UNDP to use solar energy for both heating and energy in various...

VIDEO: Meet Israeli Water Technologies from Watec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6JKptBq7Y Interviewing Oded Distel from NewTech, and many others Harvey Stein from ISRAEL21c goes to the Watec conference a few weeks ago. Here is his...

Israeli Renewable Energy – Why Israel, Why Now?

By Danny Lev, Analyst in IDC Research IL (www.idc.com) An old Israeli joke describes how God led Moses through the desert to the Holy...

Palestine’s First Solar Thermal Plant at Talitha Kumi School in Beit Jala

The prospects of solar energy are heating up in Palestine. Rachel reports on a new solar thermal plant at Beit Jala school. The Talitha...

Could America's SEIA Solar Energy Bill Catch the Sun in the Middle East?

The SEIA: Will their Solar Bill of Rights become reality? Could it work in the Middle East? Solar energy as one of the world's best...

Arrow Ecology Sorts Through Garbage for Gold

(The Arrow Ecology solid waste treatment facility near Tel Aviv processes up to 150 tons of garbage a day. Photo courtesy Chen Leopold/ Flash90) Like...

Curapipe's Little Pigs Tackle Leaky Pipes and Faulty Oil Pipelines

Curapipe's solution is designed to seal leaks fast, with little inconvenience to the customer. Most kids know that some little pigs ate roast beef, some...

The UN Tells Israel to Produce More Solar Power

Aora fires up its "sun" flower in the desert. But Israel is not doing enough for itself, says UN. Despite successful companies like Solel...

Algae Into Biofuel a "Greener" Story In $10 Million Joint Israeli and Chinese Project

A Seambiotic algae farm grows biofuel Seambiotic's been teaming up with NASA to to create a biofuel suitable for sending astronauts into space (?), and...

A Solar Panel That Washes Itself

TAU's nanosized "forest of peptides" can be used as the basis for self-cleaning windows and more efficient batteries. It's cleaning up space junk, and is...

Meet Doron Aurbach, Israel's Energizer

Care about alternative energy and an oil-free future? Then you might want to meet Prof. Doron Aurbach who is working to "green" the battery...

Leading TransBioDiesel as a Catalyst for Change in the Middle East

Israeli-Arab Dr. Sobhi Basheer of TransBioDiesel: using his experience with enzymes to replace conventional polluting practices. Many people today know that science can make biofuel...

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