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

1. Supercomputing on a cell phone
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... robots, determine devices’ behavior on the basis of sensor measurements. Control-systems researchers spend a great deal of energy trying to come up with practical approximations of complex physics in order ...

2. DOE Designates New National Renewable Energy Center
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has designated Florida Atlantic University as the site of a new national center for ocean energy research. Also, Ocean Power Technologies has signed a settlement agreement with stakeholders for ...

3. Climate Models and Warming
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Climate models use various methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. All climate models take account of incoming energy as short wave electromagnetic radiation, ...

4. DOE Funds Biomass Pretreatment Project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a contract to a Cincinnati company, AdvaceBio Systems, for research and development of a pretreatment reactor system of biomass feedstocks. The National Renewable ...

5. DOE-Funded Clean Energy Projects Win Eight R&D 100 Awards for 2010
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE-funded research projects have won 39 of the 100 R&D 100 awards for 2010, including eight for energy efficiency and renewable energy. ...

6. Department of Energy Awards $92 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and produces energy. ...

7. Vice President Joe Biden Hits Pay Dirt in Michigan
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... recovery act" infrastructure projects nationwide, Biden's appearance signals the administrations commitment to environmental and renewable energy projects. The grant ...

8. Vice President Joe Biden Hits Pay Dirt in Michigan
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... recovery act" infrastructure projects nationwide, Biden's appearance signals the administrations commitment to environmental and renewable energy projects. The grant ...

9. Vice President Joe Biden Hits Pay Dirt in Michigan
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... recovery act" infrastructure projects nationwide, Biden's appearance signals the administrations commitment to environmental and renewable energy projects. The grant ...

10. Ray Stata's Commencement address
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... collaboration, MIT is uniquely positioned to tackle the world’s biggest problems — energy, climate change, poverty and the diagnosis and care of disease. Maria and I believe so strongly in that mission ...

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

In what could serve as a model for achieving large-scale energy-efficiency improvements, MIT and Boston-based utility NSTAR on Wednesday announced an ambitious collaboration that aims to slash the Institute’s ...

12. Future Air Travel will have Less Noise, Less Exhaust
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... noise [...] Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Transportation  ...

13. 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 ...

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

... energy: The systems would use energy from intermittent sources like sunlight or wind to create hydrogen fuel, which could then be used in fuel cells or other devices to produce electricity or transportation ...

15. Cementing success
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... could reduce that by half, could ultimately save as much energy as would be produced by 100 large nuclear power plants — and would be stronger as well. “We believe our technology will make a significant ...

16. DOE Offers $60 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... energy technologies. The funds will provide continued support to 58 of the first-phase awardees. ...

17. Department of Energy Announces $60 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Innovation Projects
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At a White House Energy Innovation meeting today, Under Secretary of Energy Kristina Johnson announced that $60 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is available to continue ...

18. New project aims for fusion ignition
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... instead of requiring a constant input of energy. The design for the reactor, called Ignitor, originated with MIT physics professor Bruno Coppi, who will be the project’s principal investigator. The concept ...

19. Rapid analysis of DNA damage now possible
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... comet assay, more than 30 years after its creation,” says Jean Cadet, a DNA researcher at the Center for Atomic Energy in Grenoble, France, who was not involved in the research. Cadet says he anticipates ...

20. Secretary Chu Announces up to $62 Million for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development
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U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selections of projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar ...

21. NYSERDA Announces $11.3 Million in Funds for 25 Projects
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority today announced the award of $11.3 million to help develop and commercialize ... ...

22. DOE Awards $106 Million in Recovery Act Funds to 37 ARPA-E Projects
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Vice President Joe Biden has announced that 37 projects in 17 states were awarded Recovery Act funding as part of DOE's second round of grants for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). ...

23. DOE To Fund Electrofuels Research
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Last week Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the U.S. Department of Energy is awarding US $106 million in Recovery Act funding for research projects in a number ...

24. Salazar Cape Wind Nod a Step in the Right Direction
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Inefficient, Unreliable, and Expensive, but Energy Nonetheless WASHINGTON, DC—Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle today released the following statement in response to Secretary ...

25. Nuvera Fuel Cells Announces DOE Fuel Cell Stack Project Awards
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Fuel Cells announced they have received two technical research awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to increase the durability ... ...

26. Car Fuel from Carbon Dioxide?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... million project to turn the above dream into a reality. This car of future will consume [...] Posted in: Environment, Future Energy, Transportation  ...

27. Group Presents Energy Vision of the Future
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In an effort to lead the city of Austin into a true new clean energy economy, in late 2008 Austin Energy, the City Council of Austin, the University of Texas, private corporations and the Environmental ...

28. Researchers Test Waste-to-energy System at Treatment Plant
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

A successful University of Nevada, Reno renewable energy research project is moving from the lab to the real world in a demonstration-scale system to turn wastewater sludge into electricity. ...

29. New Analysis: 15% Cut in U.S. Carbon Emissions Achievable Through Simple Inexpensive Personal Actions
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

NEW YORK (March 12, 2010) – New analysis released today at a symposium on "Climate, Mind and Behavior" reveals that Americans can reduce U.S. carbon pollution by 15 percent – or one billion tons of global ...

30. An open, collaborative space
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... heating and cooling systems. “We want to make the place a living laboratory for energy efficiency research,” Lippman says. Small adds that these displays will show people “detailed information about real-time ...