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

1. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... class work.” Energy solutions Slocum is also working with students to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing the world: meeting growing energy demand with renewable sources that don’t add greenhouse ...

2. NHA Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Expo Grows
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The exposition at the 2010 NHA Hydrogen Conference & Expo, to be held May 3 - 6, at the Long Beach Convention Center, is projected to be 10 to 20 percent larger compared to the 2009 event, according to ...

3. US $3.2M NSF Grant To Support Poplar Trees into Biofuel
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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 ...

4. BlueFire Ethanol Applies for DOE Loan Guarantee for Fulton Biorefinery
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... under the Department of Energy (DOE) Program DE-FOA-0000140, which provides federal loan guarantees for projects that employ innovative energy efficiency, renewable energy, and advanced transmission and ...

5. Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits
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Poor farming practices have degraded the world's soils causing them to release carbon that should have stayed in the soil. In the past 150 years soils have released twice as much carbon as fuel burning. ...

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

... federal Renewable Fuel Standard for cellulosic ethanol. ...

7. China serious about renewable energy
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China plans to build a national renewable energy center to enhance the country's clean energy development, the China Daily reported, citing a government official. The center, still ...

8. President Obama Announces Three Steps to Boost Biofuels
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President Obama has announced three actions to boost U.S. biofuel production, including the final rule implementing the expanded Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuel ...

9. POET to outline cellulosic ethanol plans at London conference
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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 ...

10. CO2 Regulation in US Hits more speedbumps
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... the best bet is to encourage renewable energy production. ...

11. President Obama Announces Three Steps to Boost Biofuels
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

President Obama has announced three actions to boost U.S. biofuel production, including the final rule implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022; ...

12. Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... new environmental polices. This might be to secure membership in the International Renewable Energy Agency, otherwise known as IRENA. ...

13. Wind Energy could be big in eastern US
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... of new high-tech power lines to carry the electricity to cities, according to the study from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. ...

14. Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... new environmental polices. This might be to secure membership in the International Renewable Energy Agency, otherwise known as IRENA. ...

15. Neah Power Updates on Annual Report Filing; Board Member Ed Cabrera Looks to AMEX Listing Upgrade
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Neah Power Systems, Inc., the company developing fuel cell-based renewable energy solutions, reported that it had filed its annual report ... ...

16. Rentech & ClearFuels Bio-Refinery Awarded US $23M from DOE
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... a conditional US $22.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The gasifier will be integrated with Rentech's Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) for the production of renewable synthetic ...

17. US Renewable Energy Industry Needs the Heat in Biomass
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... – to promote energy resources that are efficient and renewable. As part of the broader renewable energy solution, biomass thermal can uniquely address the need for low-cost, locally supported energy  ...

18. Neah Power Systems Receives $10 Million Funding Commitment From Ebeling Heffernan and First Equity
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Neah Power Systems, Inc. ('Neah') (OTCBB:NPWZ) (www.neahpower.com), the Company developing fuel cells and fuel cell-based renewable energy ... ...

19. Colo. federal lab gets funds for biofuels work (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A consortium led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will receive up to nearly $34 million in federal stimulus funds to work on ways to make fuel from plant materials that can be used in existing ...

20. Ardour Capital's 2009 Year-in-review, 2010 Look-ahead
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Financial analysts look to the year past and the year ahead reporting on trends in the solar, wind, biofuel, energy storage and efficiency and geothermal sectors. They analyze the U.S. legislative landscape ...

21. $100 Billion Opportunity for Waste-To-Energy Companies in Developing World
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... of renewable energy infrastructure to by-pass fossil fuel dependence. Apparently one in four Chinese cities and seven out of 10 counties are without sewage-treatment ...

22. Lightspeed's 2010 Cleantech Predictions
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Lightspeed has invested across several cleantech areas, including solar (Stion), biofuels (LS9, Solazyme), clean coal (Coaltek), LED lighting (Exclara), and energy storage (Leyden Energy, f/k/a Mobius ...

23. EPA's Delay in E15 Ruling Means Jobs and Economic Opportunity Lost
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For months the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA), along with farm organizations across the country, numerous state and national representatives including Senators Feingold and ...

24. Airlines Sign MOUs for Renewable Jet Fuel
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... the purchase of up to 750 million gallons of renewable jet fuel and diesel derived from camelina and produced by AltAir Fuels. The renewable fuel, to be produced at a new facility in Anacortes, Washington, ...

25. POET CEO to discuss global biofuels potential in Copenhagen
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POET CEO Jeff Broin arrived in Copenhagen today to join global biofuel and agriculture leaders in a discussion about how biofuels can be deployed sustainably, achieve rapid reductions in greenhouse gas ...

26. First fuel cell canal boat uses renewable hydrogen
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Emitting only water vapour and gliding silently through Amsterdam's centuries-old canals, a canal boat -- a popular ...

27. Hudson raises more than $1B clean energy fund
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

U.S.-based private equity firm is expected to invest in renewable power, alternative fuels, energy efficiency, and storage. ...

28. Canadian biotech company, Dow expand ag partnership
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Agrisoma Biosciences is looking to create new crop varieties engineered for biofuel production and renewable manufacturing feedstocks. ...

29. Quebec sets 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

...  "It is a very ambitious target for the government, given that 48 percent of Quebec's total energy currently comes from renewable energy sources," Quebec Premier Jean Charest ...

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

There’s one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That’s why ...