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)

... key to developing small wearable and implantable medical monitors is an ultra-low-power chip for interfacing to biomedical sensors, signal processing, energy processing and communications, developed by ...

2. Secretary Chu Offers $117 Million Conditional Commitment for Hawaii Wind Power Project
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy has offered a conditional commitment on a $117 million loan guarantee to finance the construction and start-up of an ...

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

... the commander-in-chief his novel concept to store some of the energy harvested by offshore wind farms. Devices for doctors One of the programs Slocum has been especially interested in is a class that ...

4. 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 ...

5. Senators seek to block stimulus money for overseas (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A group of Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable energy, complaining that money is going to projects that are creating ...

6. Big Calif. Solar Project Gets Tentative OK From US
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Obama administration has given preliminary approval for $1.4 billion in loan guarantees for a massive solar-energy project in California's Mojave Desert. ...

7. Environmental Assessment Issued for 750-Megawatt Solar Two Project
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

A project to deploy 42,000 solar dishes in the Southern California desert has passed a key hurdle with the issuance of a draft environmental impact statement. Stirling Energy Systems and Tessera Solar ...

8. Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Winners Announced
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Renewable Energy World network of publications, the World's #1 Renewable Energy Network, has announced the winners of the 2009 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards. The awards, which were presented ...

9. BlueFire Ethanol Applies for DOE Loan Guarantee for Fulton Biorefinery
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... 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 ...

10. How to turn blueprints green
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Even in today’s increasingly energy-conscious world, it’s rare for the subject of energy efficiency to be addressed in the early stages of designing a new building, whether it’s a single-family home or ...

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

... last month in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Big steps toward tiny power There are a number of different approaches to harnessing vibrational energy, some using magnetic or electric fields. ...

12. Project LIBERTY director to give update of POET's cellulosic work
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Project LIBERTY Director Jim Sturdevant will outline progress and upcoming work for POET's effort to commercialize cellulosic ethanol at two Iowa events in coming weeks.

13. China serious about renewable energy
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

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 ...

14. Stimulus Funds for “Clean” Energy Spur Economic Growth— in Europe, and Asia
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

A little more than three months ago, IER reported that stimulus funds for green energy projects were heading offshore, along with U.S. manufacturing.[i] The article was partly based on an analysis by the ...

15. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... a “success” at the time. The Copenhagen conference “has elicited some strong reactions, both positive and negative,” said MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest J. Moniz as he introduced the panelists ...

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

... Lasers made from semiconductors convert the energy of electrons — particles of charge — into photons — particles of light. Semiconductors come in two varieties: those with direct band gaps, like gallium ...

17. India’s Airvoice commits to $50B 10-year energy project
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Company officials say 13,000 MW of solar and wind in Karnataka would make it the world’s biggest clean energy project. ...

18. Can Economic Growth Pressure Green Energy projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

19. DOE Releases US $20.5M for Community Renewable Energy Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week announced the selection of five projects to receive a combined US $20.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support deployment ...

20. Riversimple Fuel Cell Car Project Continues to Plod Along
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

People are getting more and more excited about green automobiles, so it was kind of surprising to see such a neutral reaction to the Fuel Cell Car by Riversimple. While this project has a very interesting ...

21. DOE Requests $2.4 Billion for Renewable Energy, Efficiency in FY 2011
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The President's proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2010 includes $2.36 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a 5% increase over last year's funding. The budget also ...

22. China Everbright invests in 54 MW straw-to-energy project
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

The company launches its first biomass development project in China’s Anhui Province, with the Phase I expected to cost RMB 331M.

23. Waste Management & Harvest Power To Develop Energy Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Waste Management Inc. and Harvest Power announced that Waste Management plans to invest in Harvest Power to expand the company's waste-to-energy market presence. ...

24. Global Energy Industry Stalls as Renewables Improve
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

EIC Monitor, a quarterly report from the Energy Industries Council (EIC) trade association, reports that recovery in the global energy industry stalled in the final quarter of 2009, with newly announced ...

25. 5 Unique Ways to Go Green if You're Living in a Dorm (U.S. News & World Report)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

... ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many with energy-efficient facilities and construction projects. A wind turbine at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, for example, provides 33 percent of campus ...

26. Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion — the process that generates the sun’s prodigious output of energy. Fusion has been a cherished goal of physicists and energy researchers ...

27. Bulgaria's 'green' energy boom sparks fears (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Bulgaria is undergoing a boom in the renewable energy sector that experts warn could see an influx of dodgy investment and actually end up doing more harm than good for the environment.  ...

28. Iowa approves final grant award for cellulosic project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Iowa Department of Economic Development on Thursday approved an agreement for the final $5.25 million in financial assistance to POET's Project LIBERTY, a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant ...

29. Rentech & ClearFuels Bio-Refinery Awarded US $23M from DOE
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Rentech Inc. and ClearFuels Technology Inc. on Monday announced today that their project to construct a biomass gasifier at Rentech's Energy Technology Center (RETC) in Denver, Colorado has been awarded ...

30. Secretary Chu Announces More Than $20.5 million for Community Renewable Energy Deployment Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... energy projects, such as biomass, wind, and solar installations. ...