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Biomass Briquettes for Green Energy Production

Biomass briquettes can be used for biomass green energy generation, which will be able to produce green electricity without any drawbacks of what fossil fuels could offer to generate electricity....

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Which Countries is Generating Nuclear Power Today?

Nuclear Current Scenario World is still generating electricity from nuclear power approximately at 2,645.50 terawatt-hour. 1 terawatt is equivalent to 1 million megawatt while 1 megawatt is equivalent...

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More than USD 4 million from Zayed Future Energy Prize

Background of Zayed Future Energy Prize Zayed Future Energy Prize is an award for renewable energy sciences and technologies which has been awarding since 2009. The prize is an honourable to the late...

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27 Winners of the Green Power Leaderships Awards in 2011

Several organizations and individual received the annual Green Power Leaderships Awards which is held in San Francisco. Let's check out who are the winners this year! Continue reading →The post 27...

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How Solar and Wind Powered Water Pump Works?

Solar and Wind Wind and solar are two sources of energy which are freely available to be used for generating power. Although both technologies are different, however the basic systems are similar....

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Free Energy from Our Backyard River

Another meaning which is “cool” for a renewable energy is a free energy. In this article we will go briefly about a free energy or electricity that we could obtain from our backyard river. Continue...

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Choosing the Right Solar Heating- Passive, Active & Open Loop

Solar heating system is a device that collects heat from solar energy and supplying our home with hot water. The device is eco-friendly and also an excellent option for us to reduce heating cost....

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Sustainable Energy and Cooperatives, International Topics of 2012

The United Nations has adopted two main international topics to be observed in 2012 which are the sustainable energy (renewable energy) and cooperative. The Year 2012 is the International Year of...

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Avoiding Electrical and Electronics Vampires from Our Life

Electrical and Electronics Vampires are the electrical and electronics appliances that draw electricity while switch off or running in standby mode. Other names for it are standby power, vampire power,...

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What is Cellulosic Ethanol? The Future Fuel

Cellulosic ethanol is another type of ethanol which is not produced from food sources. Cellulosic ethanol is produced from plant fibre which is widely available almost anywhere in the world. Today,...

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A Budget Phone that Last for 15 Years, on a Single AA Battery

Spare One is a unique phone which is designed to use only small amount of energy. That is the reason why Spare One cellphone could be powered only by a single AA battery of 1.5 Volts. According to the...

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Solar Air Conditioning: the Solar Thermal Powered Cooling

Air conditioning which is powered by solar thermal is another “green” alternative solution to the regular compressor air conditioning system which is costly and not eco-friendly. In fact for a regular...

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Horizontal and Vertical Axis Wind Turbine – An Introduction

There are two categories of wind turbine, the horizontal axis wind turbine (or HAWT) and the vertical axis wind turbine (or VAWT). HAWT wind turbine is more commonly install and produce by more...

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Green Building: Buildings Powered by Wind Turbines

The largest building and the first tower built that powered by wind energy is the Bahrain World Trade Centre. The 240 meters height office and commercial complex generates roughly 35% of its energy...

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What are Building Integrated Photovoltaics or BIPV?

Building integrated photovoltaics or BIPV are materials that are made from photovoltaic material and other building materials such as glass. Today, BIPV comes with wide variety of elegant forms,...

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Green Building: ZEO, a Research Lab for Tomorrow’s Buildings

The meaning of zero net energy building or zero energy building is a building which has net zero energy consumption and zero carbon emission. All operations and activities within the building are not...

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Pyramid, the Mega Electric Power Plant

Electric is generated from potential difference of two points where electrons flow from higher electric potential to lower electric potential. Although most of our school books describe that the...

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World’s First Solar Power Plant that Run 24 Hours Uninterrupted

Concentrated solar power plant is one of the solar technologies that being research lately because of its potential to generate energy with better efficiency. In concentrated solar power technology or...

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Why Solar Photovoltaic is Right for Our Home?

Solar photovoltaic or solar PV generates electricity by converting sunlight into DC or direct current. Solar photovoltaic is different than solar thermal which uses heat to produce electricity by...

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How to Estimate Solar Photovoltaic System for Our Home?

Solar photovoltaic is one of the most attractive renewable sources today.  It is not only for the benefit of our environment, the cost is also reduced multiple times than before. If we compare the...

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Future Ships powered by Solar and Wind

Ship as a method for transportation is considered to be environmentally friendly. The usage of fossil fuel versus the weight of goods that it transports is smaller than trucks or cars. However the...

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Bed, Mattress and Pillow: What are the Diseases from them?

Bed, mattress and pillow are very important accessories in anyone life since roughly a third of our life we spend with them. Roughly forty to fifty years ago most of beds, mattresses and pillows were...

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How to have FREE Electricity with US$149 or €119?

Electricity is very important for our daily life and nobody dare to say it’s not important. One of the methods to have free electricity is by generating with solar photovoltaic. The main problem for...

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Solar Air Conditioning: the Adsorption Cooling System

Solar powered air conditioning is an attractive idea of utilizing solar energy, which is the major component of a building’s cooling load. The system could eliminate or reduce conventional...

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Solar Generator and Our Survival with Electricity

Solar generator is a very practical piece of equipment. You will be able to plugin to many devices such as TVs, coffee makers, cellphones and many more. They are very powerful and you could use it...

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The energyEGG: a Modern Answer to a Modern Problem

Have you ever heard anyone say “I don’t like the environment”? I haven’t. Everyone I speak to about carbon emissions and climate change tells me that they’d love to cut their CO2 output, and that...

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Stratospheric Bacteria: the New Source of Energy

Energy and bacteria seems to be incompatible to each other. In fact nobody believes that if somebody says we are generating electricity from bacteria. Actually, electrical energy could be generated...

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Flexible Solar Panel: How to Compare Before You Buy?

Solar panel today is made with various methods and technologies so that the applications of solar panel could be extended into various applications. Solar panel is not only for cellphone charger,...

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Green Home Ideas: Savings with LED Lighting

An LED lamp or sometimes people call it LED bulb is a semiconductor that uses light-emitting diodes or LEDs as the source of light. It could be a conventional light-emitting diode or organic LED...

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Flexible Solar Panel: the Foldable Panel Specs and Price

Foldable solar panel is another type of flexible solar panel that is available in the market today. The application of this solar panel is mostly for personal gadget rather than for home, automotive or...

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Green Home Ideas: Measure and Save Electricity

Most of us never measure our home electricity usage. To be a green home owner, it is very important to measure the power that we are paying monthly. We have to know where and how the electricity is...

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Sandy’s Power Outage and Data Lost on Nov 2012

Recent power outage in US Northeast especially New York and New Jersey gave so many troubles to many homes and business. Ecogreen4us.com also had suffered not just power outage; however severe attacks...

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What is Electricity?

The name for electricity or electric is derived from the word electron, one of the three main particles making up an atom. In an atom there is a nucleus consist of protons and neutrons in the centre of...

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Calculating Electricity Cost and How They Charge You

Understanding the cost of electricity that you use at home is very important for almost everybody. Please remember that, it is not just for you. It is also important for your wife, family members, your...

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Calculating Electricity Cost for Your Home Appliances

If you have read the previous article “Calculating Electricity Cost and How They Charge You”, now you already have some ideas how to calculate the electricity cost for your home. This article is just...

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World’s Economy, Oil and the Energy Gateways

Energy is getting more expensive today. Energy prices have been increasing lately for any type of energy; such as electricity, gasoline or diesel. Oil and gas are two most important sources of energy...

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Green Home Ideas: Power Factor and Saving Electricity

Understanding electricity and how it works in your home is important for almost everybody. At least you need to have some little understanding how it works. If you want to refer further to any...

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