If Innodyn succeeds, remote power sources and small-aircraft propulsion may never be the same.

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It was a "scandal" that such a small percentage of power is generated from renewable sources and there must be a "step change" in energy efficiency improvements to homes, he added.

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The main reason for these projects is not to develop primary power sources for jet-turbine powered aircraft, but to build small, highly efficient fuel cells that could be used to make greener airliners.

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One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.

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