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. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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. ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

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

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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. ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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.  ...

15. 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. ...

16. SolarCraft Helps Sonoma County Go Green
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

SolarCraft is proud to play a part in helping Sonoma County achieve its goal of energy independence. The 2009 passage of the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program (SCEIP) gives Sonoma County residential ...

17. Secretary Chu Announces More than $37 Million for Next Generation Lighting
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $37 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support high-efficiency solid-state lighting projects. ...

18. DOE to Award $47 Million to Boost IT and Telecom Energy Efficiency
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE is awarding more than $47 million in Recovery Act funds to 14 projects that will improve energy efficiency in the information technology (IT) and communications sectors. IT and telecommunications ...

19. DOE to Support Clean Energy Projects in Costa Rica and the Caribbean
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has announced it will support its first three clean energy projects under the Low-Carbon Communities of the Americas initiative begun in June. The projects are an energy efficiency center in Costa ...

20. EIA Sees Gasoline Hitting $3 per Gallon by Summer
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA) is predicting that the price for regular-grade gasoline will rise above $3 per gallon by summer. The EIA's most recent "Short-Term Energy Outlook" also ...

21. Renewable Energy ‘Supergrid’ coming to Europe
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

UK’s energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, “We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment. ...

22. Figuring out where to put the carbon
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

To meet our immediate energy needs without exacerbating climate change, most experts agree, we’ll need to find a way to store the carbon dioxide given off by the combustion of coal, oil and natural gas. ...

23. MP2 Capital and Oak Leaf Energy Partners to Provide Solar Power for 16 Denver Public Schools
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Denver, Colo. --- The Denver Public School Board has approved plans for the development of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy projects on 16 school buildings throughout the school district. ...

24. World Bank to Invest in North African Solar
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

The World Bank will invest $5.5 billion for North African solar power projects. They have announced that initially World Bank will put in $750 million dollars from the Clean Technology Fund with the ...

25. Reinventing The Wheel
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

When necessary and conducive atmosphere is being created for research in alternative energy field we are getting so many diverse projects in many fields that sometimes it seems mind boggling. When we ...

26. The Lawyers Win in Global Warming
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Carbon dioxide air emissions is one of the big issues in global warming debate. However Before you start controlling by putting the carbon in the ground, you first have to put lawyers in a room to argue. ...

27. Duke Energy Resolves Clean Air Act Violations
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The US EPA and Duke Energy have reached a settlement in another New Source Review enforcement action. Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the nation, will ...

28. Closing in on dark matter?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... very small. However, they may occasionally bounce off an atomic nucleus, leaving a small amount of energy that is detectable under the right conditions. Those rare interactions can be easily masked by ...

29. Duke Energy Resolves Clean Air Act Violations
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

The US EPA and Duke Energy have reached a settlement in another New Source Review enforcement action. Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the nation, will ...

30. MIT goes to Copenhagen
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... are live-blogging from the event. Another student is attending with the support of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and will take part in a student-led collaborative project on climate change. On Dec. ...