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

1. Enhancing the power of batteries
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... produce very high power outputs in short bursts, and lithium batteries, which can provide lower power steadily for long periods, Lee says. The energy output for a given weight of this new electrode material ...

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

... energy. The comparatively high costs of wind power, however, remain a problem. But in a study, MIT researchers have concluded that some of the price problems associated with wind power can be remedied ...

3. Schneider Electric introduces the only MV cubicle UL listed for wind farm applications
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric today announced the UL-approved DVCAS 38 medium voltage distribution switchgear for transformer substations in wind farms. This new model, designed specifically for the North American ...

4. Explained: The Carnot Limit
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... limit on the efficiency with which heat energy can be turned into useful work,” says MIT’s Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics Robert Jaffe, who co-teaches a course on the physics of energy. ...

5. Explained: Thermoelectricity
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... devices with no moving parts. The fundamental problem in creating efficient thermoelectric materials is that they need to be good at conducting electricity, but not at conducting thermal energy. That ...

6. Verizon Launches Major Sustainability Initiative
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

...  Some of the new initiatives for 2010 include: * Adding 1,600 alternative energy ...

7. Verizon Launches Major Sustainability Initiative
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

...  Some of the new initiatives for 2010 include: * Adding 1,600 alternative energy ...

8. Africa looks to nuclear power (The Christian Science Monitor)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

The Christian Science Monitor - Last month, Senegalese Energy Minister Samuel Sarr slipped off to a conference in Paris for an extraordinary announcement: His country is hoping to enrich uranium and build ...

9. Tiny Generators Produce Electricity from Ambient Vibrations
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor. The energy-harvesting devices, ...

10. Explained: Dynamo theory
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... motion creates electric currents as electrons move through the liquid. Through this process, the energy of the moving fluid is converted into a magnetic field that can be sustained for billions of years. ...

11. Cooling Towers for NY Power Plants?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

New York environmental regulators this week released a plan to protect aquatic life in the state's rivers that could cost power generators billions to upgrade their facilities.  ...

12. Build your own Small-scale hydro electric generator
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Most machines that make electricity need some form of mechanical energy to get things started. Mechanical energy spins the generator to make the electricity. In the case of hydroelectricity, the mechanical ...

13. Iberdrola says fourth quarter profit doubled (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Spain's Iberdrola, the world's biggest wind-power generator, said Wednesday its annual net profit in the fourth quarter more than doubled to 795.3 million euros (1.07 billion US dollars).

14. Wind Turbine Power Goes Portable with Foldable Wind Generator
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Renewable energy is one of the hottest things on the market right now but until recently, solar power has been getting most of the attention. While there are plenty of techno gadgets, like solar briefcases ...

15. Settlement Reached in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Lawsuit
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... against Governor Paterson, various State entities, and Consolidated Edison by Indeck Corinth, the operator of a gas-fired energy co-generation facility that held a long-term contract with ConEd. Two other ...

16. Settlement Reached in Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Lawsuit
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... against Governor Paterson, various State entities, and Consolidated Edison by Indeck Corinth, the operator of a gas-fired energy co-generation facility that held a long-term contract with ConEd. Two other ...

17. The Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bicycle Generator
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Today’s twin goals of keeping fit while doing something good for the planet by creating electricity without any pollution come together in a product that has been around for over ten years – The Pedal-A-Watt ...

18. REG Supply Biodiesel for Hawaiian Electric's Campbell Generation Station
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Hawaiian Electric Company has signed a contract with a subsidiary of Renewable Energy Group (REG) for the supply of three to seven million gallons of renewable biodiesel per year for two years to be used ...

19. Great Inventions Of 2009: The Vegawatt
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Restaurants usually pay about $100 a month to dispose of used oil from deep-fryers, but mechanical engineer James Peret of Massachusetts invented a way to turn that oil into energy savings. A small generator ...

20. The Kite Wind Generator
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

It’s an expert estimation that the total energy stored in wind is 100 times higher than actually needed by humans on this earth. The catch is that we have to learn and devise ways to trap this ...

21. 600W Wind Turbine Generator
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

22. Tidal Power Turbines Producing More Energy Than Expected
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Marine Current Turbines' SeaGen, the world’s only commercial scale tidal stream turbine, is running reliably and delivering more energy than originally expected. The generators can produce enough energy ...

23. Tidal Power Turbines Producing More Energy Than Expected
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Marine Current Turbines' SeaGen, the world’s only commercial scale tidal stream turbine, is running reliably and delivering more energy than originally expected. The generators can produce enough energy ...

24. Japan eyes solar station in space (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.

25. Renewable energy innovations receive COMET funding
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

A small wind turbine that can be used to generate energy in urban locations and a low-cost, water-borne solar-power generator are two of the four bright ideas in the energy sector to benefit from Australian ...

26. New Wind Turbine Generator Could Produce 50 Percent More Energy
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

A startup based in Vancouver, Canada, called ExRo Technologies, has developed a new kind of generator that is particularly suited to harvesting energy from wind. It could lower the cost of wind turbines ...

27. WindCube Generates Electricity in Moderate Wind
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Wind power is the fastest growing industry in the alternative energy sector. Wind turbines generate clean and green power for us but they have certain precondition. One of it is the power unit has to ...

28. Minneapolis International Airport Installs Wind Generators
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

These days many companies are exhibiting awareness about clean and green energy and trying to use that technology for reducing costs too. Recently Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has set ...

29. New Nanogenerator for Ipods and Cellphones
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... beating of your heart or going for a walk. We don’t need to plug-in our devices in a socket. [...] Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions  ...

30. Local News | Seattle council poised to approve rooftop wind-energy generators | Seattle Times Newspaper
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

On Monday, the Seattle City Council will consider allowing windmills 15 feet above the height limit on commercial buildings. Later this spring, the council will consider allowing 10-foot-tall windmills ...