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1. Nations pledge global support for clean energy
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... building fewer power plants and using more clean energy. "We know the clean energy challenge won't wait, and we won't wait either," Chu said. With the ...

2. Nations pledge global support for clean energy
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... building fewer power plants and using more clean energy. "We know the clean energy challenge won't wait, and we won't wait either," Chu said. With the ...

3. President Obama Focuses on Advanced Battery and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... on Thursday, July 15th, at Compact Power, Inc. where he officially "broke ground" on a new advanced battery manufacturing factory in Holland, Michigan. After brief introductions by Peter Ban-Suk Kim, Chief ...

4. Should The U.S. Build More Nuclear Power Plants? (With Live Poll)
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The need for energy in this country is enormous, and it appears will continue to grow. Coal and oil are criticized for their pollution. The U.S.

5. Obama Announces $2 Billion For Solar Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country's use of renewable energy sources.

6. Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.

7. Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
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Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the ...

8. Colorado Town Divided Over Uranium Mine
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

The White House is pushing nuclear energy, but is fighting a huge perception problem -- especially when it comes to mining the uranium needed to fuel the power plants. Just getting the uranium out of the ...

9. The Nuclear Power Resurgence: How Safe Are the New Reactors?
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As utilities seek to build new nuclear power plants in the U.S. and around the world, the latest generation of reactors feature improvements over older technologies. But even as attention focuses on nuclear ...

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

... and perhaps ultimately to improvements in the rate of power production from one type of fuel cell, according to a report published this week. In many cases, thin layers of a material — which may be just ...

11. Wind Power Catching Up With Natural Gas in Europe
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"The amount of power generated by new wind turbines in the European Union this year will be about the same as the amount from new gas plants, according to the European Wind Energy Association, an industry ...

12. Senate Rejects Move To Block Greenhouse Gas Rules
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

The Senate on Thursday rejected a challenge to Obama administration rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other big polluters. ...

13. 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... from coal-fired power plants in the context of the increasing demand for energy, and dealing with local impacts of mercury contamination. The single largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions is ...

14. EPA Takes a New Stance on Sulfur Dioxide in Final Rule
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Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) is a highly reactive gas that is produced from the combustion of fossil fuels. The largest sources of SO2 are power plants (73 percent) and other industrial facilities (20 percent). ...

15. FuelCell Energy to Supply Direct FuelCell Power Plants to California Utility
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

FuelCell Energy has announced that California utility company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has ordered two 1.4 Megawatt DFC1500 fuel ...

16. EPA Takes a New Stance on Sulfur Dioxide in Final Rule
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) is a highly reactive gas that is produced from the combustion of fossil fuels. The largest sources of SO2 are power plants (73 percent) and other industrial facilities (20 percent). ...

17. 3 Questions: Jim Walsh on the Korean standoff
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... who helped initiate the “sunshine policy” of more open relations. How has this change in South Korea affected the countries’ relationship? A. Lee came to power as someone running against the sunshine ...

18. Wood-Powered 'Biomass' Plants Have Critics Barking
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... truly powered by waste materials. Opponents are concerned the plants will simply burn more wood. ...

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

When the federal government approved the Cape Wind project in April, allowing 130 power-generating turbines to be placed in the waters off Cape Cod, it gave a significant boost to the prospects of wind ...

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

... which held that an invisible fluid of that name carried heat from one object to another.   Carnot’s 1824 book “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire” laid out a set of principles that, in some cases, ...

21. Bangladesh signs nuclear deal with Russia (AFP)
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AFP - Bangladesh has signed a cooperation deal with Russia which will led to two nuclear power plants being built in the energy-starved South Asian nation, an official said Saturday.  ...

22. Russia to help Bangladesh set up nuclear power plants (Reuters)
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Reuters - Bangladesh said on Saturday Russia had formally agreed to assist the energy-starved South Asian country in building nuclear power plants. ...

23. Bangladesh, Russia sign nuclear power deal (AP)
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AP - Bangladesh and Russia are finalizing a deal on the first nuclear power plants in the energy-starved South Asian nation, an official said.  ...

24. EPA Announces Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
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... millions of small sources of GHGs from Clean Air Act permitting requirements. The phased-in, common-sense approach will address facilities like power plants and oil refineries that are responsible for ...

25. Clean Development Mechanism Agreement Signed for Philippine Hydro Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The Development Bank of the Philippines and Tricorona Carbon Asset Management Pte Ltd. have signed an agreement for the sale of certified emission reduction credits generated by three mini hydropower plants ...

26. 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 ...

27. EPA Announces Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... millions of small sources of GHGs from Clean Air Act permitting requirements. The phased-in, common-sense approach will address facilities like power plants and oil refineries that are responsible for ...

28. EPA moves to regulate industrial greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global  ...

29. Engineers Tap Algae Cells for Electricity
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... Chloroplasts are considered as the cellular powerhouses that make sugars and impart leaves and algae a green hue. During photosynthesis water is split [...] Posted in: Biofuels, Future Energy, Inventions  ...

30. Calif. Power Plant Regs Changed To Save Marine Life
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

State water regulators in California have ordered coastal power plants to begin phasing out a cooling process that is blamed for killing billions of aquatic organisms every year. "Once-through" cooling ...