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The Energy Blog is concerned with the technologies that will replace depleting oil. These include alternative energy, renewable energy, biochemicals, bioenergy, wind power, solar power, photovoltaics, ocean power, ethanol, biodiesel, clean coal power, all electric cars, batteries, hybrid cars, hydrogen, oil natural gas and fuel cells. Peak oil and environmental concerns will be discussed as they relate to these technologies.

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Greenhouses Produce, Sell Excess Heat

Monday, 05. December 2005

Using GE’s new Lexan ZigZag sheet polycarbonate roofing material, Hydro Huisman and Corn. Bak BV are constructing greenhouses in the Netherlands that will produce more energy than they use. Lexan ZigZag sheet double-wall roofing panels provide higher light transmission than single glass, and insulation similar to multiwall glass or PC sheet. These energy-efficient properties will enable approximately two-thirds of the heat generated in the greenhouses to be sold as surplus.

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