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

1. New Jersey to Take Lead in Offshore Wind Energy?
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As the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm in Massachusetts fends off some last ditch legal challenges to become the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., New Jersey passed a law this week that would ...

2. Artificial Light and Productivity
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Artificial light has, throughout history, been a powerful force contributing to the quality and productivity of human life. It is so significant to human life that society spends an enormous amount of ...

3. Mystery of the Oil Plume Solved? Microbes ate it.
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What is the real story about the "missing oil". One study shows that most of the oil is gone, while another shows that there is still a whole lot of it in a mid-depth plume not visible from the surface. ...

4. Personal cushion of air
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... Orion can land on land in case of an emergency. A graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has helped design a smaller alternative: a reusable, 700-pound air-bag system that ...

5. NOAA Stands by "the oil is mostly gone" conclusion
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Scientists aboard a U.S. research ship have started an around-the-clock search for elusive signs of oil lurking beneath the Gulf of Mexico's surface in what they jokingly call "Operation Dipstick."  ...

6. BP to retrieve blowout preventer
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BP Plc aims to retrieve a failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill response said on Monday.  ...

7. PETE Process Promises Successful Technology Fusion
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A new joint venture research work at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, supported by Department of Energy and DARPA has come up with a new solar energy conversion process that can potentially ...

8. Whiskey Byproducts Could Produce Next Big Biofue
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Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have patented a process to produce biobutanol, a fuel that can be used in existing gasoline engines without any modifications, from whiskey by-products. In utilizing ...

9. Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars
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President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., recently to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant, which the White House advertised as an example of federal stimulus grants ...

10. Massive oil plume discovered in the Gulf
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Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a result ...

11. LEED Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Health
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The LEED program — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is playing an increasingly important role in the drive to make buildings in the United States greener and more energy efficient. LEED ...

12. Smithsonian Catalogs Life Before The Gulf Spill
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It'll take years to fully know the effects of the BP oil spill on wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico. One thing we do know now is what that wildlife was like before the 206 million gallons of oil spewed into ...

13. Audi Testing Water in Electric Car Production
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The entrepreneurial Audi is planning to take advantage of changes portended in the automobile market with an eye towards emission-free vehicles. Until now Audi has not shown any interest in electric ...

14. The New Breeds of Cars
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Decades ago the only type of car was the internal combustion (gasoline)type. Other varieties have arrived such as Hybrid and electric. With the new choices are other decisions such as which one reduces ...

15. Vestas cuts 2010 forecasts, shares plunge (AFP)
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AFP - Shares in Vestas slumped on Wednesday after the Danish wind power group cut this year's earnings and sales targets following a second quarter loss.

16. Wind Energy Instruments getting Bigger & Better
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Renewable energy production and demand growth is gaining momentum in many ways across the world. There is a booming demand of wind power today and all wind energy equipment manufacturers are gearing ...

17. Caribbean Island Closer to Becoming Geothermal Energy Exporter
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Among the islands in the Eastern Caribbean, St. Lucia’s economy is performing comparatively well. The island, which is less than half the size of Los Angeles proper and is home to about 170,000, is diversifying ...

18. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
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A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

19. EPA Sets Limits on Mercury and Other Air Emissions from Cement Kilns
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Cement plants emit mercury from the kilns used in the cement manufacturing process. Cement kilns operate at high temperatures, and are, in fact used to destroy many types of toxic substances. The rule, ...

20. Free and Low-Cost Solar Energy
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If solar electricity or solar water heating isn't your cards right now, there are plenty of other ways to take advantage of the sun’s energy–for little or no money. One of the simplest is hanging your ...

21. 2010: The Year of Compressed Air Energy Storage?
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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 ...

22. BP cements Gulf oil well ahead of permanent plug
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BP finished pumping cement into its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to seal off the source of the world's worst offshore spill, paving the way to permanently plug the blow-out later ...

23. Sewage-cleaning device produces electricity, too
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Small units that purify household sewage could provide a source of electricity for urban and remote communities in the developing world, according to researchers. The units would be populated with Shewanella ...

24. Graphene: Solar Cells of the Future?
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A southern California University team has come up with what could be the alternative new breed of economical and flexible solar cells. For some decades now, organic photovoltaic cells (OPV) have been ...

25. USPS Goes Green
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In strict adherence to guidelines released by the Department of Energy, the United States Postal Service gets on a fast track to reach the goal for energy reduction. Green roofs, green buildings and ...

26. BP gusher stopped, most remaining oil degrading naturally
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released a major report by the federal government addresses the fate of the oil released while the well was gushing, and what is likely to ...

27. Policymakers recognise peak oil threat, now they need to deal with it
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Two years ago, the British government was still confident that oil reserves were abundant enough to meet rising demand until at least 2030. However, ever since numerous academic studies and industry reports ...

28. Solar Futures
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Solar power is the generation of electricity from sunlight. This can be direct as with photovoltaics, or indirect as with concentrating the sun's rays to boil water which is then used to provide power. ...

29. Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" overlaps BP spill zone
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This year's low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest ever, about the size of Massachusetts, and overlaps areas hit by oil from BP's broken Macondo well, Louisiana scientists report.  ...

30. Renewable Power Users and Sources
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Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable as opposed to fossil fuels for example which once gone are gone. ...