Energy

Solar Energy Women Wanted East!

Women in the Middle East are being encouraged to take up a career in renewable energy, thanks to a new initiative. The Women in Solar...

Hawa Akkar Wind Farm to Illuminate 60,000 Lebanese Homes in First for Country

Lebanese renewable energy have fallen short of its ambitious goal of reaching 12 percent of Lebanon's energy needs by the year 2020. But now...

Israeli Researchers Make Oil from Greenhouse Gas

A replacement for oil has become a burning need in the 21st century. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers in Israel have invented a...

Israel’s Energy Industries Wins Power From Garbage Contract in Ghana

Who says that garbage can't be used to create energy, including electricity? The same garbage that created eyesores like the Tel Aviv Garbage Mountain, where...

Israeli Sunshine Girl Gets United Nations Prize for Jewish Heart (video)

Seeing the enormous potential for Israeli clean technologies in solar energy and water for the developing world, Sivan Yaari-Borowich started an NGO to help...

Turkish Girl “Pirate” Jailed in Russia’s Arctic Prison Over Oil

Twenty-eight Greenpeacers, mostly foreigners, and two journalists are held for six weeks now in a Russian prison: In a surprising but not unheard of...

Dubai Opens 13 MW Solar Plant, The Largest PV Plant in Mideast

In an attempt to diversify its energy balance, Dubai has just turned on a 13 MW solar energy plant. The oil wealthy nation is...

The Dam that May Damn Egypt’s Future

In a strange and surprising twist, Egypt says it will consider participating with its neighbour Ethiopia in the construction of the Renaissance Dam, a...

BrightSource Builds 121MW Ashalim Solar Thermal Plant in Israel

For business travelers and the curious who are coming to Israel, BrightSource has a pilot six-megawatt project in operation in the Rotem Industrial Park built in 2008, open to the public. A new visitor center may be built at the Ashalim plant.

13 Arab Nations Get Energy Future Mapped in Helpful New Report

There is a new report out underscoring the amount of renewable energy being developed in the Arab world with Morocco, Jordan and Egypt coming...

Sun’s Magnetic Field Will Soon Reverse – Be Prepared for the Flip

The sun's magnetic north and south magnetic poles are expected to reverse over the next few months. We've witnessed only a few such reversals...

World’s Biggest 100 MW Geothermal Plant Built by Israel’s Ormat in New Zealand

The New York Stock Exchange-traded company Ormat Technologies (NYSE:ORA) has built what's being cited as the world's largest geothermal plant. Geothermal plants tap into...

Learn From London’s “Solar Death Ray” Tower

In London last week, a parabolic “death ray” of sunshine reflected off the city’s newest skyscraper burning cars and singing carpets in adjacent street...

SIWA Oasis Near Libya to Get Solar from the Gulf

For outsiders, SIWA oasis in Egypt is a wonderful place to visit precisely because "civilization" has been so slow to arrive there. But for locals,...

Richard Branson Joins, Leonardo DiCaprio Leaves Zayed Future Energy Prize Jury

Richard Branson's recent commitment to this year's Zayed Future Energy Prize jury speaks volumes not only about Abu Dhabi's leadership in energy innovation, but...

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has moved beyond prototypes, with a new Florida production facility, eight aircraft in production and about $50 million raised. How close is AIR ONE to your garage?

Stardust’s solar geoengineered $10 billion plan to blot out the sun

Israeli-American startup Stardust Solutions has raised $75 million to develop technology that could cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight. Is solar geoengineering becoming a real industry? Or could it be a new threat?

Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

Mantle8 is taking its hunt for naturally occurring hydrogen from beneath the Pyrenees to the Middle East, opening a Dubai hub after raising €31 million. But finding hydrogen underground is one thing; proving it can be produced cheaply and at scale is another.

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Here’s what we found

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has moved beyond prototypes, with a new Florida production facility, eight aircraft in production and about $50 million raised. How close is AIR ONE to your garage?

Stardust’s solar geoengineered $10 billion plan to blot out the sun

Israeli-American startup Stardust Solutions has raised $75 million to develop technology that could cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight. Is solar geoengineering becoming a real industry? Or could it be a new threat?

Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

Mantle8 is taking its hunt for naturally occurring hydrogen from beneath the Pyrenees to the Middle East, opening a Dubai hub after raising €31 million. But finding hydrogen underground is one thing; proving it can be produced cheaply and at scale is another.

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Here’s what we found

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

meteorite crashed through a New Jersey roof carrying ancient salts, organic compounds and amino acids. After a few too many visits to Ontario’s Crystal Cave — and my own mysterious fireball in the forest — I have questions about the alien chemistry falling around us.

Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

Adidas Israel featured amputee runner Shalev Biton in its Single Shoe campaign, designed to let people who need only one shoe buy one instead of a pair. The local campaign has since sparked international boycott calls and an apology from Adidas.

Scientists make lead-free perovskite solar cells that can weather the elements

Scientists have developed a “raincoat” for lead-free tin perovskite solar cells, helping them withstand air, moisture and heat while maintaining high efficiency.

Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

Europe’s mountaintops may look richer in plant life, but rising species numbers are masking the disappearance of alpine specialists as temperatures climb.
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