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Dye-ing To Power Solar Cells in Africa

With many types of solar technology in development, it can be challenging to determine which is most effective. The efficiently in which a solar cell...

Sunday And Ormat Build Largest Solar Roof in the Middle East

Sunday Energy, a solar energy service provider in Israel, and Ormat Technologies, one of the world’s largest geothermal power solutions companies, recently announced they...

Qatar and the UK Research On Recycling Plastic Waste

Qatar, one of the largest polymer-producing countries in the Middle East region has new ambitions for recycling its plastic waste. Qatar University has paired...

Low-tech Watercone funnels seawater to thirsty in Yemen

Collecting water from thin air is not an odd idea. The ancient Israelites did it back in the day and they have a prayer...

BP Solar and SolarEdge Partner to Develop Power Harvesting System

Solar energy giant BP Solar from Maryland, USA, and SolarEdge from Israel today announced a joint agreement to commercialize a power harvesting system embedded...

Michigan Looks To Miya and Israeli Water Expertise To Create Green Jobs

Earlier this month, a water main in the US city of Seattle burst, buckling streets and causing water to flood an area of 10...

The International Renewable Energy Agency Convenes in Sharem, Sinai, Next Month

Seventy-nine countries will send delegates to Sharem el Sheikh, Sinai next month to inaugurate the first session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)....

Ormat News and 9 Israel-Related Cleantech Headlines, Week of May 10, 2009

During the week of May 10, 2009, Ormat, a geothermal company, announced its plans to build a plant in Indonesia and Globes reported that...

Aora Makes The Desert Bloom With Sunshine Flower Power

Rising up, like a mirage in the middle of the desert outside Eilat, is a giant yellow tulip in whose heart lies a massive...

California's PG&E Signs Historic Solar Energy Contract With BrightSource Energy, for Solar Power

The deal is to provide power to more than half a million homes: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that it has...

Seeing Water Pollution With Snake's Eyes

(Water snakes in Thailand. This new technology developed by Prof. Katzir can see through water, just like a snake.) Although most people take the safety...

Saudi Arabia Opens World's Largest Desalination Plant

Saudi Arabia has always had an acute fresh water shortage problem. The problem has been so severe that a proposal was once considered to...

ZenithSolar and 10 Israel-Related Cleantech Headlines, From Week of May 3, 2009

During the week of May 3, 2009, Israel's two biggest cleantech stories were about a BusinessWeek feature, which provided an overview of the sector...

Win The $1.5 Million Zayed Future Energy Prize

Once again, in the UAE Gulf state of Abu Dhabi, the Zayed Future Energy Prize contest is open for entries on new and innovative...

Forget Submarines, Send In The Robotic Octopus Instead

Explore where no man has gone before, with tentacles? Now building the world's first robotic octopus, and the world's first soft-bodied robot, Israeli "octopus"...

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Atmospheric Water Generators won’t work until we create clean energy to power them

Water from air sounds like magic: machines pull moisture from the atmosphere and turn it into drinking water. But atmospheric water generation comes with an energy cost, making clean energy essential if the technology is going to help solve water scarcity without worsening climate change.

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Ozempic is changing our bodies. Could it shrink the economy too?

GLP-1 drugs are shrinking appetites and waistlines, but could they shrink our environmental footprint too? From fashion and food waste to lighter airplanes, packaging and transportation, Ozempic-era weight loss could have unexpected effects across the economy.

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Pacific Fusion is building a $1 billion fusion research facility in New Mexico, betting that enormous electrical pulses can help push fusion energy beyond the laboratory and toward practical clean power.

Europe’s circular fashion mandate in effect by 2030

Europe is forcing fashion to confront its waste problem. New EU rules ban large companies from destroying unsold clothing and are expanding producer responsibility for textile waste, pushing brands toward repair, resale, recycling and circular design.

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