Right up with world trends, Australian Heinz Dahl, of Next Gen Wind, tells how Australian and New Zealand manufacturers are talking of huge, 10 Megawatt, Wind Turbines; Wind Turbines for cyclone-prone areas; floating Wind Turbines, and more.
Beyond Zero talks to Heinz Dahl of NextGen Wind
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Masdar is noted for their Masdar city project to create a high performance zero emissions city. In this interview we talk about one of their main projects and that is testing and scaling solar beam down towers for comercial deployment in the United Arab Emirates. The towers are from the work of Tokyo Institute of Technology and are pre commercial at this stage but hold a lot of pr
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has dominated the development of standard photovoltaics cells since the mid 1980s and Professor Martin Green has been at the head of the UNSW efforts since the late 1970s. From BP buying into the UNSW's photovoltaic technology in the 80s to the UNSW's recent relationship with Suntech, the UNSW has been at the forefront of photovoltaic development and commecialisation globally.
Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Carnegie Corporation has developed the CETO II wave power device that produces zero emissions energy. Their unique system involves pumping a working fluid from the ocean floor to drive a conventional 
Beyond Zero talks to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg about Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Walt Musial from US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratories tells the story of Wind Energy in the USA, from the 'Wind Rush' of the 1980s, challenges of scaling up, to proposals for huge offshore, floating, wind turbines.
Paul Gipe, author of 'Wind Energy Basics' talks to Scott Bilby about how the Canadian province of Ontario plans to close all its coal power plants by 2014, how people in Vermont wanting to own their own energy sources pushed politicians into instituting feed-in tariffs, and much more. And a warning for Australians: Beware FITINOS - Feed-in Tariffs in Name Only!
