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A new type of hybrid engine could accelerate the
world-wide spread of hybrid engines in general. The current hybrids with combustion engine and electric engine are very complex, expensive, heavy and have a battery to be taken care of once the car reached its end of life. The new hybrid, developped by Prof. Dr. Lino Guzella and his team at the technical university (ETHZ) in Zurich, uses compressed air to increase the efficiency of a combustion engine. The air would be pumped in a tank when braking and used when accelerating. Read on...

In September 2008, a Swiss House at Leimgrubenweg 90 in Riehen near Basel received one of the Swiss Solar Awards 2008. That house produces 120 percent more energy than it consumes! It achieves this with superior insulation and solar energy. Imagine now what you could do in places where the sun shines more than in Switzerland. Conclusion: the technology exists already; now ways have to be found how to apply this to existing buildings. This would also end discussions about new nuclear plants! Read on...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) declared this day as the World Environment Day. Time to reflect on the following points: Read on...

This is very good news - we can have a renewable energy supply with the technologies of today! An ingenious team of German researchers has found a way to combine solar, wind and biomass energy into a network that overcomes the natural limitations of weather-dependent energy production. These are the key points: Read on...

Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology (the Swiss equivalent to the MIT) published a strategy paper last Monday that calls to "limit CO₂ emissions to one ton per person per year by the end of the century - if the planet's population increases to ten billion as foreseen." They want to achieve this goal with the three "E"'s:
Increased efficiency of energy conversion at all steps of the supply chain, the rapid introduction of renewable energies, and the increased consumption of electricity at the end-user level. Read on...