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

1. DOE Creates a New Energy Hub to Develop Fuels from Sunlight
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE is backing a California research team with up to $122 million for establishing an energy innovation hub to develop a method of producing fuels from sunlight. Cal Tech will lead the team in partnership ...

2. DOE Announces $30 Million for Energy-Efficient Housing Partnerships
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has announced up to $30 million in funding for 15 research partnerships that aim to deliver innovative energy efficiency strategies to the residential housing market. ...

3. Breakthrough in Thin-Film Solar Cells
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have come out with positive news about increased efficiency of thin-film solar cells. As we know that scientists are trying to increase the efficiency ...

4. Economical Solar Panels to Yield More Energy
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

There has been research work going on to increase the efficiency of the cost-effective amorphous solar panels. TU Delft has been the center where this research work is being developed. The research ...

5. Ding Dong: Carbon Caps are Dead
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

WASHINGTON, DC – In response to news reports announcing the death of economy-destroying, job-killing legislation to cap carbon, Institute for Energy Research (IER) President Thomas J. Pyle released the ...

6. Transitioning to Cool Roofs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... reducing ground-surface temperatures and overall energy requirements. ...

7. Transitioning to Cool Roofs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... reducing ground-surface temperatures and overall energy requirements. ...

8. 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 ...

9. Fuel Additive Production Takes the Green Route
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Research is on for the organic production of isobutene (isobutylene). Thomas Bobik, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and David Gogerty, a doctoral student are doing pioneer ...

10. More Power to Electronics Thanks to Nano-scale Wires
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Today a long-standing electronic dream has become a reality thanks to research done by a team of scientists from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, supported by U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) at ...

11. Elves and Sprites
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Upper atmospheric lightning or upper atmospheric discharge are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of electrical breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal ...

12. 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. ...

13. IER Statement on the (Second) Obama Drilling Moratorium
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Washington, DC – In response to today’s announcement on the new Obama drilling moratorium, Institute for Energy Research Senior Vice President Daniel V. Kish released the following statement: “This moratorium ...

14. Department of Energy Awards $92 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

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. ...

15. Explained: Phonons
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... correspond to heat. At each frequency, quantum mechanics principles dictate that the vibrational energy must be a multiple of a basic amount of energy, called a quantum, that is proportional to the frequency. ...

16. AltaTerra Research Presents Global Outlook and North American Report Card for Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

17. The Ultimate Solar Cell?
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The ultimate step in utilizing solar power is to convert maximum energy from sun into electricity. This will make solar power highly cost-advantageous compared to other traditional power sources. Capturing ...

18. New Process to Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cell Usage
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

A new process is being tested by chemical engineers of Purdue University to get high hydrogen production at fuel-cell temperature-level with no catalyst use. This is full of promise for vehicles powered ...

19. State RPS' Lead to 250% Market Growth by 2025
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

State renewable portfolio standards (RPS) will be the most critical driver determining the pace of U.S. renewables growth going forward, according to a new IHS Emerging Energy Research market study: US ...

20. DOE Announces US $24M for Algae Research
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the investment of up to US $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in the commercialization of algae-based biofuels. The selections will support ...

21. An Internet 100 times as fast
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... energy. In recent years, however, a group of MIT researchers led by Vincent Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has demonstrated a new way of organizing ...

22. 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 ...

23. Department of Energy Announces $24 Million for Algal Biofuels Research
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced today the investment of up to $24 million for three research groups to tackle key hurdles in the commercialization of algae-based biofuels. ...

24. 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 ...

25. Methane in Gulf "astonishingly high"
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists ...

26. Thin films show surprising reactivity
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

...  In fuel cells, a fuel such as hydrogen or methanol reacts in the presence of a catalyst, releasing its energy chemically rather than being burned. As a result, they can produce electricity from fuel without ...

27. 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 ...

28. IER Statement on Court Order Overturning Obama Admin. Deepwater Drilling Ban
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Washington, DC – Following Judge Martin Feldman’s decision to overturn the Obama Administration’s deepwater drilling ban, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research issued this statement: “This ...

29. Kevin Costner’s Oil Extractor Ready to Take Action in the Gulf
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... Concerned about the short-term and long-term ramifications of oil spills in 1993, Costner procured a technology transfer from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory for a centrifugal oil-water ...

30. Prosperity and Its Enemies
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Dear American Energy Freedom Supporter, The Institute for Energy Research recently welcomed Fox Business News host, John Stossel, as the keynote speaker at our 2nd Annual luncheon in Houston, Texas.  ...