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

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

... research for producing isobutylene with the help of a new but natural enzyme rather than from the traditional petroleum-based products. The enzyme is awaiting patent process [...] Posted in: Ethanol  ...

2. US Foodservice Deploys Fuel Cell Pallet Trucks
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

US Foodservice-San Francisco has purchased 40 direct methanol fuel cells to power pallet jacks in its Livermore, Calif., food ... ...

3. POET voices support for Fueling Freedom Plan proposed by Growth Energy
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Today, Growth Energy called for the redirection and eventual phasing out of government support for ethanol in return for a level playing field. POET CEO Jeff Broin voiced support for Fueling Freedom Plan ...

4. Fuel Cell Developer IRD Gets EU Funding to Develop Fuel Cell mCHP
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

IRD has announced that it has gained EU and state funding to develop a 500 W mCHP plant that runs on methanol.The methanol power fuel cell ... ...

5. Scientists Revisit Power from Potatoes
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... These are absolutely eco-friendly batteries – based on the hidden powers of potatoes – which will be an economical answer to the growing power [...] Posted in: Ethanol  ...

6. Poet Acquires 90-MGY Ethanol Plant
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Poet announced the purchase of a 90 million gallon-per-year ethanol plant located just outside Cloverdale, Indiana and previously operated by Altra Biofuels. ...

7. POET acquires Putnam County, Ind. ethanol plant
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET announced today the purchase of a 90 million gallon-per-year ethanol plant located just outside Cloverdale, Ind. and previously operated by Altra Biofuels. ...

8. 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 ...

9. Brazil's Ethanol Sector To Get US $540M Boost
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Last week, the Brazilian Innovation Agency, FINEP, and Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES) entered into a new partnership to promote ethanol development. As the two primary sources of government ...

10. POET to outline tech advances at Beijing conference
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET Senior Vice President of Science and Technology Mark Stowers will detail breakthroughs in cellulosic ethanol technology at the Sino-US Advanced Biofuels Forum in Beijing on Thursday, May 27. ...

11. POET outlines renewable fuel future in testimony to House Agriculture Committee
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Ethanol producers each year produce more renewable fuel more efficiently, but the growing alternative to oil industry dominance needs bold policy to help offset more foreign oil imports in the future, ...

12. Two Wind Farms get Investment from Google
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... utility-scale renewable energy generation. These two wind farms produce 169.5 megawatts of power. These two wind farms can light up [...] Posted in: Ethanol, Industry, Wind Farms, Wind Power  ...

13. Meeting The Nation's Bioenergy Goals
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... about meeting that goal with products like cellulosic ethanol or oil squeezed from algae. ...

14. POET CEO to outline ethanol's future at Fortune "Brainstorm Green" conference
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET CEO Jeff Broin will outline ethanol's role in the current and future energy environment at the Fortune "Brainstorm Green" conference April 12-14 in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Broin will participate in ...

15. Google Plans New Solar Mirror Technology
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... more efficient economy.” Google is known for its Internet search engine. Now they want to make inroads into green technology [...] Posted in: Ethanol  ...

16. US $3.2M NSF Grant To Support Poplar Trees into Biofuel
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Bowie State University is working on ways to turn poplar trees into high-yield crops for biofuels including ethanol, the renewable ...

17. BlueFire Ethanol Applies for DOE Loan Guarantee for Fulton Biorefinery
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. has submitted an application for a US $250 million dollar loan guarantee for the company's planned cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Fulton, Mississippi. The application, filed ...

18. New Cellulosic Ethanol Facilities Sprout Up in Four States
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Commercial cellulosic ethanol plants are moving ahead in Iowa and Kansas, while demonstration-scale plants are now operating in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The new facilities will help meet the new ...

19. Oorja Releases New 4.5kW Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, the "OorjaPac Model 1"
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Oorja has unveiled its latest fuel cell, a 4.5 kW DMFC, which it claims to be 50 times more powerful than rival technologyThe OorjaPac ...

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

... all there is, but in a fuel cell there are channels on each side, carrying a fuel (usually hydrogen or methanol) over the anode, and oxygen or air over the cathode. That enables fuel cells to keep producing ...

21. Oorja introduces methanol-fuelled fuel cell system for materials handling
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Oorja Protonics, a California-based fuel cell system developer, has introduced a DMFC fuel cell system for class I and class II materials ...

22. GM seeking more U.S. ethanol fueling stations (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - General Motors Co's growing output of vehicles capable of running on ethanol-gasoline blends won't help cut polluting emissions or U.S. dependence on foreign oil until a slim network of stations ...

23. POET to outline cellulosic ethanol plans at London conference
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET Senior Vice President of Science and Technology Mark Stowers will outline POET's process for commercialization of cellulosic ethanol and a vision for the future of ethanol this week at the F.O. Licht's ...

24. Obama's energy policy: more corn ethanol, 'clean' coal (McClatchy Newspapers)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Wednesday announced plans to boost the use of biofuels — including more ethanol from corn — and speed up work on a plan to ...

25. Shell & Cosan To Form Ethanol JV in Brazil
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... in Brazil for the production of ethanol, sugar and power, and the supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels. ...

26. E: The Environmental Magazine - Alfresco ambience
(Feed Articles / FindArticles - Alternative Energy)

January 1, 2010 -- EcoSmart Fire has launched a new line of energy-efficient designer fireplaces called Outdoor Ranges. Fueled by denatured ethanol, they offer a... ...

27. GE and Petrobras In Biofuel-Fired Aeroderivative Generation Play
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras, together with GE, has developed the world's first fully-commercial bio-ethanol-fired gas turbine power station. ...

28. Panasonic announces new prototype DMFC
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Panasonic Corporation has announced it has developed a direct methanol fuel cell system which can produce an average power output of 20 W ... ...

29. EPA's Delay in E15 Ruling Means Jobs and Economic Opportunity Lost
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... Harkin, environmental agencies and ethanol producer associations have been advocating for a decision from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on a seemingly minor ruling regarding the amount of allowable ...

30. Oorja expands methanol fuel cell deal with SSI
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Grocery distributor signs second deal for technology that enables it to improve operational productivity and reduce its need for batteries.