Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. United States Used Less Energy, More Renewables in 2009: Report
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The United States used more wind power and less fossil fuel in 2009 than 2008, according to a new report from DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ...

2. Personal cushion of air
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Camarda, who seeks to develop more innovative space-engineering concepts that veer from the traditional. In 2008, Camarda helped organize a group of students from Pennsylvania State University and MIT, ...

3. Finland aims to build first ever green highway (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

4. Range Fuels Finally Gets its Cellulosic Plant Running
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... 20 million gallons of fuel in 2008. Then it got pushed back to 2009. It is now finally operating in the second quarter of 2010. ...

5. National Renewable Energy Goals And Progress
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Renewable energy installations in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2000 and 2008, driven in large part by the clean energy goals that states are setting. ...

6. Global CO2 emissions off 1.3 percent in 2009
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

...  Global investment in renewable installations for power, heat and fuels last year rose to 125 billion euros ($161 billion) from 120 billion in 2008, IWR said.  ...

7. Solazyme Gets $52M for Algae Production
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... in August of 2008. ...

8. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

9. China: World’s Largest Energy Consumer; Surpasses the U.S.
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... took a toll on U.S. industrial output, adding to a decline in total energy consumption that was almost 5 percent below 2008 levels.[ii] The [...] ...

10. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

11. World Bank: Biofuels Didn't Cause Grain Price Booms
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A new white paper from the World Bank's Development Prospects Group concludes that biofuels were not the main reason for the spike in grain prices from 2006 to 2008. ...

12. Dudley's path followed unusual turns to CEO of BP (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Bob Dudley's sudden rise to the top at BP PLC shows how the Gulf oil spill has dramatically changed the fortunes of people from local fishermen to corporate executives.

13. Electricity Generation: Coal’s Share down in 2009, Lowest since 1978
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

In the electricity-generation market of 2009, coal generation had only a 44 .6 percent share, 3.6 percentage points lower than in 2008 and the lowest level since 1978 when it represented 44.2 percent of ...

14. EPA withdraws rule excluding certain fuels from RCRA regulations
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

In December 2008, the US EPA excluded certain fuels derived from hazardous secondary materials which, when burned in industrial boilers under specified conditions generated air pollutant emissions comparable ...

15. BP's failures on the Gulf made worse by PR woes (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - BP is already fighting an oil gusher it can't contain and watching its mighty market value wither away. Its own bumbling public-relations efforts are making a big mess worse.

16. BP's failures on the Gulf made worse by PR woes (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - BP is already fighting an oil gusher it can't contain and watching its mighty market value wither away. Its own bumbling public-relations efforts are making a big mess worse.

17. EPA withdraws rule excluding certain fuels from RCRA regulations
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

In December 2008, the US EPA excluded certain fuels derived from hazardous secondary materials which, when burned in industrial boilers under specified conditions generated air pollutant emissions comparable ...

18. AWEA: U.S. Market for Small Wind Turbines Gained Ground in 2009
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. market for wind turbines grew by 15% in 2009, according to a new report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). That's a far slower growth than the U.S. market experienced in 2008, ...

19. Rwanda faces other green challanges after plastic bag ban (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Rwanda has successfully banned plastic bags but the tiny central African country, which Saturday led celebrations to mark World Environment Day events, faces several other green challenges.

20. Dust storms not sole reason for Phoenix air quality
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

...  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected Arizona's claim that dust storms caused the high pollution readings in Phoenix in 2008, a decision which could have significant ...

21. The Debate That Will Define America's Future
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, the Massey, West Virginia coal mine accident, the Tennessee coal ash disaster in 2008, the BP oil refinery disaster in Texas in 2006, and countless other fossil ...

22. ‘Tattoo’ may help diabetics track their blood sugar
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the patient’s glucose levels. Continuous glucose detection A 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that continuous monitoring helped adult type I diabetes patients who were at least ...

23. ‘Efficiency Forward'
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... in July 2008. Under the law, utility companies must offer significantly more rebates and other incentives for customers to upgrade lighting, air conditioning and industrial equipment to more efficient ...

24. Schneider Electric showcases photovoltaic solutions at Intersolar 2010
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... year's tradeshow represents a milestone for the company as it is the first time it has participated under the Schneider Electric brand since it acquired Xantrex Technology Inc. in October 2008 and created ...

25. Report Details Ethics Violations Of Offshore Agency
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... by the Interior Department's inspector General occurred between 2000 and 2008, and were not directly related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the abuses are yet ...

26. Energy answer: Blowing in the wind?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... and where you locate it.” Location, location, location The MIT study began as a piece of research in the 2008-09 academic year by two MLOG students, Prashant Saran and Clayton Siegert, whom Goentzel ...

27. 3 Questions: Charles Stewart reads the tea leaves
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... independents, and they’re just going to chose between the two candidates — there or anywhere else. One of the consequences of the 2008 election was a continuing of an ideological sorting of the two parties. ...

28. Fly the eco-friendly skies
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... take flight around 2035. MIT was the only university to lead one of the six U.S. teams that won contracts from NASA in October 2008. Four teams — led by MIT, Boeing, GE Aviation and Northrop Grumman, ...

29. New water-splitting catalyst found
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... in Science in 2008, Nocera reported the discovery of a durable and low-cost material for the oxygen-producing electrode based on the element cobalt. Now, in research being reported this week in the journal ...

30. China's telecom sector credits telecommuting with huge emissions reductions (Y! Green)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Y! Green - China's telecom sector released a report this week claiming that it had slashed emissions by 48.5 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2008 by increasing telecommuting, a greater reliance on electronic ...