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

1. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... said, could come from improvements in energy efficiency, which could both produce a dramatic lowering of greenhouse emissions and oil imports, and at the same time create large numbers of long-term jobs. ...

2. Italian oil slick reaches key farm center of Parma (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Sludge from an oil spill snaked down the Po River on Thursday to reach the province of Parma, raising fears that the home of Italy's famed prosciutto, parmesan cheese and other agricultural staples ...

3. Italian oil slick reaches key farm center of Parma (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Sludge from an oil spill snaked down the Po River on Thursday to reach the province of Parma, raising fears that the home of Italy's famed prosciutto, parmesan cheese and other agricultural staples ...

4. Rare Earth Elements are Vulnerable to Supply Disruptions When China Controls 97% of the World’s Production
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Source: USGS Some people argue that we must reduce our use of oil because some oil is produced by dictators and countries with interests contrary to the United States. They argue we need to switch to different ...

5. Drill Gate: Obama Administration Ignores American People, Enacts De-Facto Ban on New Offshore Energy Exploration and Production
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... oil prices reaching $147 a barrel for President Bush to tear up the moratorium on offshore energy production, but at least when he [...] ...

6. Biodiesel as an Alternate Fuel
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil or animal fat based diesel fuel consisting of long chain alkyl is typically made by chemically these oils with an alcohol. Biodiesel is meant to be used in standard ...

7. 3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles
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... System.” With Toyota in unprecedented turmoil, MIT News talked to Spear about the Japanese automaker’s problems — and potential solutions. Q. What went wrong with Toyota? A. What went wrong with Toyota ...

8. Obama Unveils Plans To Boost Biofuel Market
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced that his Administration is taking a series of steps designed to help grow the U.S. biofuels industry to reduce dependency on foreign oil, fight climate chance ...

9. Energy Diversification: A National Security Imperative
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

According to the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. imports about 60% of its oil, with more than two-thirds of it used for transportation. Oil is essential to the basic functioning of the global ...

10. POET CEO to outline ethanol impact at Retech 2010
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Ethanol limits oil imports and makes our environment cleaner, but its positive impact in the future will be many times what it is today thanks to more efficient production technology and commercialization ...

11. API: U.S. Crude Oil Imports Decreased by 9.2% in 2009
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has announced that the imports of crude oil and related products dropped by 9.2% in 2009. With U.S. crude oil production up 7% over 2008 levels, the United States ...

12. Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... of superconducting wire coiled inside a stainless steel vessel. This magnet is suspended by a powerful electromagnetic field, and is used to control the motion of the 10-million-degree-hot electrically ...

13. EPA agents search Chevron facilities in Alaska
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Agents from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigating possible air-pollution violations spent two days searching Chevron-owned oil facilities in Alaska, company and government officials said ...

14. EPA agents search Chevron facilities in Alaska
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Agents from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigating possible air-pollution violations spent two days searching Chevron-owned oil facilities in Alaska, company and government officials said ...

15. Khosla fund's first investment goes to Danotek’s permanent magnet generators
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

$13M is expected to help Michigan wind turbine component manufacturer gear up for production, with returning support from GE, Statoil and CMEA. ...

16. Nanofarming Offers a Kinder Way to Get Biofuel from Algae
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

In conventional biofuel production, algae are harvested and killed in order to extract their oil. It's not a very efficient process - sort of like uprooting a tree and stripping off the apples to make ...

17. Nanofarming Offers a Kinder Way to Get Biofuel from Algae
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

In conventional biofuel production, algae are harvested and killed in order to extract their oil. It's not a very efficient process - sort of like uprooting a tree and stripping off the apples to make ...

18. Actions Speak Louder Than Words on Domestic Energy Production

(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... federal lands will be considered in 2010. While Secretary Salazar says that “oil, gas and coal will continue to play an important role in our energy mix,” the [...] ...

19. Actions Speak Louder Than Words on Domestic Energy Production
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Obama Administration Breaks (non) Leasing Records, Presents a Clear and Present Danger To U.S. Energy Security “Oil and natural gas are, and will remain for many years to come, a cornerstone of our nation’s ...

20. IER: Technology, Innovation Remains Key to Safe, Increased Offshore Energy Development
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... safe and environmentally sound. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. oil and gas industry has developed innovative, 21st century technologies and exploration techniques that are efficient, pose little [.. ...

21. Reef Conservation Strategy Backfires
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Conservationists worried about overfishing on the Pacific island of Kiribati persuaded fishermen to pick coconuts instead. The strategy backfired: Coconut oil production increased, but so did fishing. ...

22. Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... one of the largest sums — almost $7 million over five years. And within a few days of the ARPA-E announcement, the French oil company Total — the world’s fifth-largest — announced a $4 million, five-year ...

23. One word: bioplastics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... in the ocean. It just gets ground up into tiny particles,” he says. In the Pacific Ocean, a vast swath twice the size of Texas teems with tiny bits of oil-based plastic that can poison ocean life. Sinskey ...

24. Palm-oil genome research to increase yields?
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Orion Genomic and Malaysian group study two species of the next-gen biofuel feedstock to find ways of increasing production and protecting from disease.

25. APEC seeks to slash emissions by 2050 (AFP)
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AFP - Asia-Pacific powers including the United States, China and Russia are expected to call next week for sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the final countdown to a crunch climate meeting. ...

26. Asia peatland loss 'helps drive warming': scientists (AFP)
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AFP - Scientists pointed the finger on Wednesday at Southeast Asian countries for draining wetlands for palm oil and cheap timber production, warning the practice was stoking dangerous global warming. ...

27. Fossil Fuel Subsidies More Than Double Those for Renewables
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The largest U.S subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production, according to research from the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). The study, which reviewed fossil ...

28. Renewable fuels may have hidden costs, study says
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... emissions. In addition, the increase in intensive agriculture would require an enormous addition of nitrogen fertilizers to the soil, producing emissions of nitrous oxide, a much more potent greenhouse ...

29. The easy way to go green
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... days, and then it's supplemented by a fan blowing over coils of water heated by the solar panels on the roof, which provide all the house's hot water year round. Photovoltaic panels provide all of its ...

30. Greenpeace blocks 2nd Canada oil sands operation (Reuters)
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Reuters - Environmental activists said on Wednesday they canoed into Suncor Energy Inc's Alberta oil sands operation, blocking equipment in a second protest action in as many weeks aimed at disrupting ...