Energy

Suntech To Sell Home Solar Panels in Israel

Suntech, the world's leading solar panel maker, with 1,800MW of annual production last year in China, is now looking to Israel for its next launch...

Iberdrola Fires Up ISCC in Egypt, at Last

Politics has long slowed the adoption of more solar in Egypt. This week, a milestone. This week, Spain's Iberdrola pulled the switch on Egypt's first...

Dr. Helen Caldicott: Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Much Worse Than Chernobyl

There are good reasons not to eat apricots and hazelnuts from Turkey (after Chernobyl). Japan's reactor is much worse. Brace for future horrors says...

GP Exclusive Interview: Turkey Beginning to Lay Infrastructure for Hydrogen Economy

Hydrogen-fueled vehicles and power systems could be feasible in Turkey by 2020, says Mustafa HatipoÄŸlu, managing director of the UN's International Centre for Hydrogen...

Egypt’s 1st Private Wind Farm To Power More Boring Brown Buildings

Expect to see more of these as Suez Cement secures its long term viability in Egypt with private wind farm. The good news? Egypt is...

World’s First Integrated Renewables Combined Cycle Power Plant To Be Built in Turkey

General Electric's design integrates a traditional combined cycle plant with wind and solar energy, allowing it to generate electricity with unprecedented efficiency. Less than...

Meet Morocco’s Renewable Energy Market at EneR in November

Meet billions of dollars in human capital and renewable energy finance at the EneR event in November. Morocco to invest 8 billion Euros in...

Bosphorus To Become Center of Hydrogen Energy Production If Second Canal Is Built

The proposed canal has been slammed by Turkish environmentalists. But authorities at Turkey's center for hydrogen energy technology see a silver lining: the canal...

Limited Power Shackles Armenia to Precarious Nuclear Plant

In bucolic but earthquake-prone Armenia, people both fear and rely on a nuclear power plant that has operated for three decades with no primary...

Hydropower Could Meet More Of Turkey’s Energy Demand — But At What Cost?

A planned dam in southeastern Turkey would submerge Hasankeyf's 10,000-year-old cultural relics and displace 50,000 people from the region. How many kilowatt hours is...

Europe’s Biggest Solar Farm To Be Built In Turkey

The 100-MW photovoltaic power station would be the first to harness Turkey's remarkable solar resource. Turkey has a lot of catching up to do when...

As Energy Demand Swells, Turkey Falls Dark for Earth Hour 2011

Istanbul's incandescent Bosphorus Bridge will join iconic structures around the world in turning off its lights for Earth Hour this year. For the past four...

Debunking the ‘Green’ Biofuel Myth

Is biofuel from the Jatropha tree- which Jordan is experimenting with- really as green and sustainable as we think? In a recent article, I debated...

Demand for “Anti Radiation” Pills and Vaccine Grows Despite Limited Protection

Checking radiation levels. Will potassium iodide work? When I wrote a Green Prophet article in the summer of 2009 dealing with research into a vaccine...

Despite Japan, Turkey Goes Ahead With Nuclear Reactors

Forty years in the making: Turkey still intent on building the country's first nuclear reactor on this serene spot on the Mediterranean Coast. Cyprus...

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Hydrophilis Rebreather: After the Penis Jokes and Shark Bait Memes, Oliver Isler Says His Underwater Dream Is Serious

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AI data centers are triggering panic, instead of cleantech opportunities

AI may unintentionally become the economic engine that finally modernizes America’s aging grid. California is experiencing a massive AI data center boom, ranking 3rd in the U.S. with 227 operating centers and 54 more in development as of April 2026, according to Stanford.

Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

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24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

Green Prophet readers know we write a lot about hair. We have covered the halal and the haram sides of hair removal for Muslims. We have written about sugar waxing, Persian sugaring, threading, and the beauty secrets that came out of the Middle East long before salons started calling them trends. Our articles on sugar wax broke the internet a few times. 

Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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