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

1. Union: China violating trade rules in clean energy (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

... as solar and wind power. ...

2. Union: China violating trade rules in clean energy (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

... as solar and wind power. ...

3. Solar Storm
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

A geomagnetic storm (or solar storm) is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a massive solar flares or related sun output. A geomagnetic storm is caused by a solar wind shock ...

4. More Pumped Hydro Storage Could Help Wind & Solar Power
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"Currently the Largest-Scale Form of Grid Storage Available"

5. Rare-Earth Resources Increase Chinese Clout
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

Over the past 5 years, China has emerged as a world-leading producer of solar and wind technologies. Due to its insatiable appetite for energy, the country is quickly becoming a top installer of renewables ...

6. Full Steam Ahead For California Geothermal Plans?
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

The state's geothermal energy industry provides two times more energy than solar and wind combined. Geothermal could play a big role in the state's plan to reach some ambitious clean energy targets, but ...

7. A (Load) Balancing Act: The Challenge Of Clean Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

As new solar and wind energy projects come online in California, electricity grid operators are struggling to smooth out the irregularities in power that come from renewable sources. They are exploring ...

8. Top 4 Clean-Tech Predictions for 2H 2010
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... there are significant movements in wind, solar, and the development of innovative business models. ...

9. 2010: The Year of Compressed Air Energy Storage?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

There are signs that 2010 could be the coming out party for Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES). With the onslaught of large wind and solar deployments that will be added to the grid to meet state renewable ...

10. Modular Renewables for the Military
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The military spends a lot of money and manpower getting fossil energies to combat troops. Over the last 4 years, there have been more calls to get modular wind and solar units deployed in places like Iraq ...

11. Ontario's Growing Pains: Will the Wind and Solar Industries Scale-up in Time?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

With the Green Energy and Economy Act (GEEA) last May, the Ontario government launched the most ambitious feed-in tariff (FIT) program for renewable energy development in North America. The combination ...

12. 2010: The Year of Compressed Air Energy Storage?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

There are signs that 2010 could be the coming out party for Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES). With the onslaught of large wind and solar deployments that will be added to the grid to meet state renewable ...

13. Shape-shifting robots
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... software.” Larger sheets could enable “a tent that can adapt its shape according to the wind so that it doesn’t blow over,” Demaine says, or “a solar cell that can adjust its shape to the sun and the cloud ...

14. Explained: the Doppler effect
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... mass. Recently, Kavli postdoc Simon Albrecht used the Doppler effect to detect color shifts in the light absorbed by an exoplanet, which indicated strong winds in the planet’s atmosphere. Doppler shifts ...

15. Wifi hotspot powered by wind turbine and solar panel
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"Students at the Rochester Institute of technology have put together this WiFi hotspot that is powered by a wind turbine and a solar panel. It gets its signal through a parabolic antenna pointed at a near ...

16. Clean Energy Builds Slowly, Despite Federal Cash
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

In pushing for cleaner energy sources, President Obama faces an uphill battle -- wind and solar power make up only a small fraction of the U.S. energy diet. And despite billions of dollars in Recovery ...

17. Spain to cut subsidies to renewable energy producers (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - The government of Spain, a world leader in the renewable energy, said it has reached agreements with producers to slash subsidies for wind and solar power.  ...

18. In a first, astronomers detect strong winds on an exoplanet
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, has become the first to measure wind in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. By detecting heavy winds on HD209458b, a huge exoplanet located 150 light years away ...

19. Coordinated stargazing
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... remnants of the bodies that slammed together to form the planets more than 4 billion years ago. Unlike Earth, which has been continually eroded by wind and water since it was formed, KBOs haven’t changed ...

20. Cleantech attracts $190M, led by solar and nuclear energy
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Chinese wind turbine maker pulls back IPO plans and a VC firm seeks ag-bio funds, among the 47 deals we spotted in the past seven days. ...

21. Clean Energy Patents Hit Record High In First Quarter-Clean Energy Patent Growth Index
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... solar and hybrid/electric vehicles reached quarterly records while wind patents fell. Fuel cell patents dominated the other sectors. ...

22. TEP Signs 160-MW of Renewables PPAs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has agreed to purchase the output of 10 new solar power systems, a landfill gas generation project and a new wind farm that together will have an installed capacity of close ...

23. From the Editor
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Whether in wind, solar or bioenergy, the renewable energy industry is getting used to thinking big. The challenge of scale is a recurring theme throughout this issue of Renewable Energy World. ...

24. NREL Study: Western Grid Can Handle Increased Wind and Solar Power
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a study showing that it is possible for the Western power grid to draw 35% of its electricity from solar and wind sources. The study notes ...

25. Bladeless Wind Turbine – Inspired by Nikola Tesla
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

A research company in New Hampshire recently patented its bladeless wind turbine, which is based on a patent issued to Nikola Tesla in 1913. This wind turbine is christened as the Fuller Wind Turbine. ...

26. New water-splitting catalyst found
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... energy: The systems would use energy from intermittent sources like sunlight or wind to create hydrogen fuel, which could then be used in fuel cells or other devices to produce electricity or transportation ...

27. Fired Up: Bioheat Gains Momentum as Recovery Takes Hold
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The renewable energy industry has grown substantially in recent years, despite the down economy. But while solar, wind and to a lesser extent, geothermal energy put up solid growth numbers, the bioheating ...

28. Clean Energy Conferences Sprout in Spring and Early Summer
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... Grid, alternative fuels and biofuels, biomass energy, solar energy, and wind power. ...

29. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... solar lamps, solar pumps, wind power, biomass, biogas, and hydro), and more proactively promote Energy Efficiency. However, in this article, I will only focus on the use of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) ...

30. SOLAR SERDAR - ENERGY PERFORMANCE RATINGS FOR WINDOWS,DOORS,AND SKYLIGHTS
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)