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

1. Renewable Energy Production Increased 8.3% & Coal Consumption Dropped 16.3% Last Year in Europe
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The newest eurostat report on energy production and usage in Europe shows that renewable energy production increased 8.3% and coal consumption dropped 16.3% last year. In total, renewable energy accounted ...

2. Audi Testing Water in Electric Car Production
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

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 ...

3. IER: Administration’s Assault on Energy Continues
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... Institute for Energy Research senior vice president for policy, released the following statement: “The Administration continues its assault on US energy production, this [...] ...

4. Wind Energy Instruments getting Bigger & Better
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

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 ...

5. Canadian Solar Inc. Announcing the Selection of Guelph to Host its Solar Module Manufacturing Facility in Ontario, Canada
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world`s largest solar companies, is announcing the location and the next steps to establishing a new solar module manufacturing facility in Ontario, Canada at a media conference ...

6. POET conducts biomass harvest research in Texas
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET this week will begin harvest research in corn fields near Navasota, Texas to learn more about biomass collection for cellulosic ethanol production.

7. Energy Information Administration Forecasts Domestic Production Losses Because of Obama’s 6-Month Drilling Moratorium
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

The Department of Energy’s independent statistical agency is forecasting that the Obama Administration’s drilling moratorium will reduce domestic oil production. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) ...

8. Policymakers recognise peak oil threat, now they need to deal with it
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

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 ...

9. New Poll: Americans Oppose Unfair Taxes 3 to 1, Want Domestic Production
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

A new survey released today by the American Energy Alliance (AEA) found that 77 percent of registered voters oppose efforts in Congress to tax American companies twice on income earned abroad. The poll ...

10. BP well tests look good so far
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

...  The British energy giant, which cut off the flow of oil from the deep-sea well on Thursday when it began the test to gauge its structural integrity, expressed ...

11. Beneath the Surface: A Survey of Environmental Risks from Shale Gas Development
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Washington, D.C.- Improved drilling techniques have unlocked vast new reserves of shale gas, a resource that could be large enough to displace significant amounts of coal, and an energy source that emits ...

12. Fuel Additive Production Takes the Green Route
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Research is on for the organic production of isobutene (isobutylene). Thomas Bobik, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and David Gogerty, a doctoral student are doing pioneer ...

13. Beneath the Surface: A Survey of Environmental Risks from Shale Gas Development
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Washington, D.C.- Improved drilling techniques have unlocked vast new reserves of shale gas, a resource that could be large enough to displace significant amounts of coal, and an energy source that emits ...

14. EPA issues greenhouse gas reporting requirements for coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial landfills, and magnesium production facilities
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by major sources of these pollutants is gaining momentum. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing ...

15. New Process to Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cell Usage
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

A new process is being tested by chemical engineers of Purdue University to get high hydrogen production at fuel-cell temperature-level with no catalyst use. This is full of promise for vehicles powered ...

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

...  In fuel cells, a fuel such as hydrogen or methanol reacts in the presence of a catalyst, releasing its energy chemically rather than being burned. As a result, they can produce electricity from fuel without ...

17. In 2009, U.S. Led the Rest of the World in Increases of Oil and Natural Gas Production; China Recorded the Greatest Increase in Energy Consumption and Emissions
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Every year BP releases a Statistical Review of World Energy.[i] This report is greeted by energy experts as one of the best snapshots of the world energy situation. This year, however, the release of the ...

18. Biomass Power Association Responds to Report
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... Contrary to the report, Cleaves emphasized that BPA and its members do not advocate harvesting trees for energy production and the vast majority of biomass facilities utilize wood waste material and industry ...

19. Breaking the Cost Barrier on Algae-based Biofuels
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

It's been a hot topic for a few years now. And certainly the potential for incorporating algae as a key feedstock for future biofuel production is massive. But the sobering fact is that we're at least ...

20. Enhancing the power of batteries
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... produce very high power outputs in short bursts, and lithium batteries, which can provide lower power steadily for long periods, Lee says. The energy output for a given weight of this new electrode material ...

21. Cyclone hits Oman, disrupting oil and gas infrastructure
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Cyclone Phet, despite weakening to a Category 1 storm, pummeled Oman's coastline on Friday, killing two and halting the small oil-producing country's oil and gas production, officials and state media said.  ...

22. Virent Secures US $46M to Scale Up Biofuels Production
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Virent Energy Systems Inc. has closed a US $46.4 million third round of funding in which Shell and Cargill deepened their investment in Virent's technology platform. This new round of funding will advance ...

23. 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 ...

24. President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... look out on a world riddled with manifestly unsustainable systems, from the environment to the global economy; from healthcare to transportation; from water, to cities, to energy — ailing systems whose ...

25. U.S. to halt 33 exploration rigs in deepwater review
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The U.S. government ordered a temporary halt to drilling at 33 deepwater exploration rigs on Thursday, part of a broader response to the massive BP oil spill that threatens efforts to tap offshore fields ...

26. Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... Nanosolar claims: Nanosolar claims mass production of solar power will now become feasible with their differently manufactured solar panels. Conventional silicon-made [...] Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, ...

27. Categorically Excluding Domestic Energy Production
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... law and create a new extra-legal barrier to issuing new permits for energy development. This is not called for by federal law and it [...] ...

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

... energy. The comparatively high costs of wind power, however, remain a problem. But in a study, MIT researchers have concluded that some of the price problems associated with wind power can be remedied ...

29. Splitter-Saw Pinosa - Wood Energy Expo - Bioenergy Innovation
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... to thus reduce of 50 to 60% the energy consumption of the production unit. Finally, Pinosa has put into place several securities in order to protect almost immediately the operator thanks to the implementation ...

30. Co-firing Biomass with Coal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As nations focus on controlling carbon, global demand for and production of coal-based electricity continues to increase. According to the International Energy Agency, the world's power demands are expected ...