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

1. Funding cuts will finish Britain's clean energy race
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

In the 1970s the UK invested about 0.15% of GDP each year in research and development (R&D) into providing cheaper and cleaner energy. Britain was putting more public money into nuclear power and other ...

2. Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... new clean-power standard. The new standards, expected to be firmed up by early 2011, will force electricity producers to phase out older, high-emitting coal-fired plants and require ...

3. President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... remedies will call on the core strengths of MIT. It is that call on MIT’s intellectual resources that brought President Obama to our campus in October, to highlight the critical need to develop clean energy ...

4. More Wind Farms Mean Cheaper Energy
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Just as Americans are internalizing the real cost of sticking with fossil fuels, due to the Gulf sea floor gusher, a timely NREL study finds wind power makes electricity that's not just cleaner, but it's ...

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

... right now, given a couple of changes to the electricity grid. “Everyone knows advances in technology are critical for more widespread use of clean energy, but effective operations are also vital for ...

6. Cape Wind Has Found a Buyer for Its Clean Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm in the US to win regulatory approval, has found a buyer for half of the electricity it will generate, when completed. Investor-owned energy ...

7. Cape Wind Has Found a Buyer for Its Clean Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm in the US to win regulatory approval, has found a buyer for half of the electricity it will generate, when completed. Investor-owned energy ...

8. New Platinum Could Mean Cheaper, More Efficient Fuel Cells
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Fuel cells are clean and green cells. They work without polluting the environment. Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that transform the chemical energy of a fuel into electricity generating water ...

9. In The World: Better wound treatment for all
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... sealed tightly over the affected area. The speculation is that it helps by drawing bacteria and fluid away from the wound, keeping it cleaner. For patients, there is a benefit even beyond the speedier ...

10. Charting a course toward cleaner cars
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Friedman, research director of the Clean Vehicles Program for the Union of Concerned Scientists, says that "American transportation and energy policy has suffered from a fundamental flaw: we haven't had ...

11. Bloom Energy Launches Cheaper, Cleaner Electricity (NewsFactor)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

NewsFactor - Following a prelaunch buildup that could be called the energy world's equivalent of the Apple iPad rollout, Bloom Energy launched its cleaner-energy-in-a-box product Wednesday. The Bloom Energy ...

12. Debut of promising fuel-cell tech light on details (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A richly funded clean-energy startup is keeping critical parts of its business plan secret as it launches its first product amid fanfare.  ...

13. Bloom Energy unveils fuel cell of the future (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

14. A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... are especially good at blocking the migration of methanol fuel. Direct-methanol fuel cells are considered a promising clean-energy source because they efficiently convert fuel to electricity without combustion, ...

15. CLEAN ENERGY PATENT GROWTH INDEX - Shine-On Solar Edition
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. is pleased to announce the Shine-On Solar edition of the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) by the firm's Cleantech Group. The CEPGI tracks the granting ...

16. Silencing the brain with light
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. ‘Clean and digital’ Boyden first demonstrated the use of light to reduce brain activity in 2007. However, the feat was performed in cells, ...

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

Welcome to Clean Future Solutions! We are the premier online superstore for clean green living. We specialize in clean energy solutions and environmentally friendly products for your home or business. ...

18. Reporter’s Notebook: How to spur energy storage innovations
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... class were held on Friday, Dec. 11.   Graduate students Daniel Codd (mechanical engineering), Wendelin Michel (AeroAstro), and Paul Tu (MIT Sloan School of Management) proposed the “Clean Aviation” ...

19. The Climate Conundrum Over Nuclear Energy
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

No one is thrilled about nuclear waste, but nuclear power plants generate lots of electricity and no carbon dioxide. As America looks to a clean-energy future, number crunchers say nuclear can't be ruled ...

20. Inside cleantech Europe: That was the week that was!
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Gimv and Agri Investment Fund launch a €60M agricultural fund, while Norwegian electricity company Statkraft unveils the world’s first osmotic power plant.

21. Dairy plants to disinfect water with UV systems
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

A new industry ruling paves the way for an Israeli substitute for pasteurization to reduce electricity use and cost to clean equipment at U.S. dairy plants. ...

22. IIT bio cell’s double duty: water treatment and power
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Kharagpur, India-based team of researchers looks to increase electricity output from a new battery technology that they say can also clean sewage water. ...

23. Smart Grid to be Stimulated
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

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 ...

24. Smart Grid to be Stimulated
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

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 ...

25. Smart Grid to be Stimulated
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

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 ...

26. President Obama lights up MIT
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... efficient and clean energy technologies. "Nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to produce and use energy," he said in remarks delivered to a packed Kresge Auditorium. "The nation that wins ...

27. California Accelerates its Pursuit of Clean Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

California is using a two-pronged approach in committing to clean energy, with the governor mandating that a third of the state's electricity come from renewable energy by 2020, while the state's utility ...

28. Big Dreams For Small Wind Turbines
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

As huge wind farms get up and running to generate electricity on mountaintops and in fields, another market for wind energy is also emerging, known as "small wind." These turbines provide clean power to ...

29. Electricity and Desalination from Wastewater
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

In most part of the world safe and clean drinking water is unavailable for daily consumption and industrial use. Currently to desalinate water two kinds of technologies are being used. First is known ...

30. Penn State discovers new electricity-generating desal process
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

U.S. and China researchers collaborate on modified microbial fuel cell that desalinates salty water and cleans wastewater. ...