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

1. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... celebrating its 40th year at MIT. As an alternative that allows about 50 freshmen to satisfy their General Institute Requirements in an atmosphere of small, personalized classes and peer learning in small ...

2. Norwegian Company Develops World’s Largest Wind Turbine
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... is one of the more promising alternative energy sources and Norwegian scientists are currently in the development stages of what promises to be [...] Posted in: Industry, Wind Power, Wind Turbines  ...

3. Aquamarine Power Makes Riding the Waves More Interesting
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Every time we turn around we are seeing something new and exciting in renewable energy forms and Aquamarine Power is the latest in a long line of energy sources to be pumped up about. Aquamarine Power ...

4. Solar Cells from Tobacco Plants May Be a Reality Soon
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

As the world continues its quest to use less fossil fuels, the latest possible solution comes from the most unlikely of sources: the tobacco plant. This latest news comes from the University of California, ...

5. Renewable Energy ‘Supergrid’ coming to Europe
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UK’s energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, “We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment. ...

6. World Bank to Invest in North African Solar
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

The World Bank will invest $5.5 billion for North African solar power projects. They have announced that initially World Bank will put in $750 million dollars from the Clean Technology Fund with the ...

7. EPA Updates Mobile Source Emissions Model
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants ...

8. Actionable Steps to Building a Sustainable Business
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

With the new year rapidly approaching, it is a good time as individuals, and as businesses, to look at ways we can reduce our environmental impact, or as a large part of our environmental impact is known ...

9. Clean Future Solutions Now
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... Future Solutions is dedicated to providing affordable alternatives that help eliminate our country's dependence on foreign supplied oil, contribute to a cleaner healthier environment and alleviate the ...

10. EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward in regulating greenhouse gas emission in the US from both mobile sources (principally autos and trucks) and stationary sources (industrial ...

11. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gasses Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward in regulating greenhouse gas emission in the US from both mobile sources (principally autos and trucks) and stationary sources (industrial ...

12. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward in regulating greenhouse gas emissions in the US from both mobile sources (principally autos and trucks) and stationary sources (industrial ...

13. Storing Wind Power as Ice?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Of the total amount of electricity generated by all sources, about 75% is used by buildings, a major fraction of which is consumed by air conditioners. With the demand of renewable energy increasing ...

14. Quebec sets 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets
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The Canadian province of Quebec said on Monday it aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the same target as that set by the European Union.  ...

15. German Smart Grid Leads the Way in Conservation
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

There is an obvious push on not only using less energy, but in finding other forms of energy that will allow the world to recover from the years of literally pillaging its natural resources. Germany ...

16. One word: bioplastics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the public was not very receptive to the idea of alternative plastics. “Oil was $20 a barrel, and people didn’t believe in global warming,” Peoples recalls. “Timing is everything,” says Sinskey. “There ...

17. Potential for 1.9 Million Renewable Energy Jobs
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Three universities of the USA have conducted studies related to renewable sources of energy and it has produced some interesting facts. The first and most important one is that renewable energy policies ...

18. Cheap Energy with New Solar Device
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Researchers and scientists are putting on endless effort to make the sources of energy clean and green. There are many devices in the market that run on solar energy. The alternative energy atmosphere ...

19. Osmotic Power Plant Set To Open
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

With the big push on alternative energy sources, world leaders everywhere are pushing for new power technology to create power plants that will use different resources to keep the earth greener. Her ...

20. Unanticipated Long Term Consequences of Nuclear Waste From Bomb Making
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Radioactive debris has been found in canyons that drain into the Rio Grande, but officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say there's no health risk. More than 60 years ...

21. Smart Grid to be Stimulated
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President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday. The announcement will ...

22. Power Generating Parking Lots Planned in Palmdale, CA
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In an effort to tap one of the high desert's most abundant resources, Palmdale is allowing large shopping centers and business parks to install small wind turbines in their parking lots to save on electricity ...

23. Survey: Alternative Energy Sources are Vital for Survival
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

The international image of America is a country that is constantly creating roadblocks in the way of reaching a global agreement on climate change and environmental protection. Americans are seen as ...

24. World’s Largest Solar Power Project Planned
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Gujarat, a state of India, is quite eager to opt for alternative sources of energy. It started out as a small dream. The Gujarat government visualized only 500 MW of solar power generation by 2014. ...

25. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Opens
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Saudi Arabia's highly-anticipated King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which houses one of the world's fastest supercomputers, officially opened its doors this week (23 September).  ...

26. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirements Finalized
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

A major new regulatory requirement, starting January 1, 2010, will affect most large industrial and utility combustion sources in the US. Fossil fuel and industrial GHG suppliers, motor vehicle and engine ...

27. U.N. Reports on Developing Nations’ Energy Needs
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It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global ...

28. Efficiency, Reduced Consumption Should Be Focus
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Not everyone is sold on alternative fuels as the solution to energy problems. Time magazine senior correspondent Michael Grunwald is a skeptic when it comes to renewable fuels. He tells Steve Inskeep instead ...

29. Digital Combustion Simulation
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

When researchers arrive at a particular after lots of experimentation they already have used up lots of resources in terms of money, man, material and time. Now scientists are trying to arrive at a ...

30. Record Month for Renewable Energy in the U.S.
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The latest Electric Power Monthly Report released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows net U.S. electrical generation from renewable sources (biomass, geothermal, solar, hydro, and wind) ...