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

1. Revolutionizing medicine, one chip at a time
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... next wave of this electronics revolution will involve biomedical devices, say electrical engineers in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) who are working on tiny, low-power chips that could ...

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

... country, only 1 percent of the manufacturing of these batteries — now used mostly in portable electronics devices, but seen as a key to the next generation of electric vehicles — takes place in the U.S. ...

3. Solar power could provide 10% of US energy: report (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels. ...

4. Big power from tiny wires
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say. The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, “opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare,” says Michael Strano, MIT’s Charles ...

5. Insulators made into conductors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Most polymers — materials made of long, chain-like molecules — are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, ...

6. NREL Shows 20 Percent Wind by 2024 Is Possible, but it Ignores the Economics of Competing Technologies
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... 30 percent wind power into the electrical grid that serves more than 70 percent of the U.S. population. The portion of the U.S. covered in this study is [...] ...

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

... will catch on. Such a system, he says, could theoretically be used to provide enough power to meet all of the nation’s electricity needs. Offshore wind farms — far enough out to avoid objections about ...

8. The Bloom Box - 60 Minutes - CBS News
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Large corporations have been testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. Will we have one in every home someday? ...

9. Venezuelan drought continuing
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... dry spell is stirring up bittersweet memories. The Uribante reservoir that feeds a hydroelectric dam here is at its lowest level in decades, and the receding waters have uncovered a village that has been ...

10. Explained: Linear and nonlinear systems
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... is devoted to finding linear approximations of nonlinear phenomena. Russ Tedrake, for example, the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has adapted theoretical ...

11. Cell-inspired electronics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... blind. "Circuits are a language for representing and trying to understand almost anything, whether it be networks in biology or cars," says Sarpeshkar, an associate professor of electrical engineering ...

12. Schneider Electric's Renewable Energies Business releases the compact, lightweight Xantrex™ GT30 inverter
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric's Renewable Energies Business announces the launch of the Schneider Electric Xantrex GT30 Grid-Tie Solar Inverter, a three phase power inverter that delivers 120/208 Vac out of the ...

13. Honda Solar Hydrogen Station Introduced to Green Car Market
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Honda finally unveiled their new solar hydrogen solar station and all signs point to a dramatic success. The station is smaller than previous models and enables an electric car owner to refill their ...

14. The Trouble with Wind Power
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"By most measures, wind energy has been a great business lately. "But if you think it's easy -- or cheap -- to get wind-powered electricity to places where it's needed, talk to Tom King. ...

15. Engine Emissions
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Most people are familiar with automobile air emissions. Perhaps one day there will only be electric cars and no car air emissions. But there are many on other engines in use by commercial and industrial ...

16. Power from motion and vibrations
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... of electrical engineering and director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories, and his former student Yogesh Ramadass SM ’06, PhD ’09. They have been working for years on the development of ...

17. Sketch-interpreting software
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... pen — to draw a molecule on a tablet computer, the software can identify different types of chemical bonds and element symbols and determine the structure of the molecule. Similarly, if an electrical engineer ...

18. SymPowerco Launches Hybrid Electric Vehicle Project
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

SymPowerco has announced that the firm's subsidiary Polygenic Power Corp. will be launching a hybrid vehicles program which will look to ...

19. SolarCraft Brings Solar to Historic Jackse Winery
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Novato-based SolarCraft announced the completion of a solar electric generating system at the newly renovated Jackse Winery in Glen Ellen. The historic building is now powered by clean, green energy ...

20. Hybrid Just Got Sexy: BMW Hybrid Sports Car
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

We all know that sooner or later all automobiles are going to be either hybrid, electric or hydrogen powered. The one drawback that many of us look at is the overall appeal of the cars. Very few models ...

21. Fed loan guarantees may boost nuclear power return (AP)
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AP - More than $8 billion in new federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia could be the first step toward a nuclear renaissance in the United States, three decades after the Three ...

22. Fed loan guarantees may boost nuclear power return (AP)
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AP - More than $8 billion in new federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia could be the first step toward a nuclear renaissance in the United States, three decades after the Three ...

23. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

24. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

25. WaterMaker India looks to bring down air-to-water costs
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Mumbai-based firm says its technology that captures potable water from the air in Andhra Pradesh uses electricity or alternative power sources. ...

26. Alternative Energy Grows in Europe
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Wind and solar technology made up over half of Europe’s new electricity generating capacity in 2009, as the number of new coal and nuclear facilities fell More wind capacity was ...

27. Self-powered sensors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... would use new energy-scavenging systems being developed by Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT’s Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the MIT Microsystems Technology ...

28. The power of ‘random’
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... researchers shared in two awards from IEEE, formerly the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for papers that made vital contributions to the field of network coding. “Most networks right ...

29. 25% US Renewable Electricity Standard Will Create 274,000 Jobs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A new study released by Navigant Consulting finds that a 25% by 2025 national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) would support hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and prevent a near-term collapse ...

30. First germanium laser
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... move data — and maybe even perform calculations — using light instead of electricity. But more fundamentally, the researchers have shown that, contrary to prior belief, a class of materials called indirect-band-gap ...