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

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

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead ...

2. Listening in on single cells
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... past year has successfully tested and published sensors for nitric oxide and ATP (the molecule that carries energy within a cell). “The list of biomolecules that we can now detect very specifically and ...

3. Changing Behaviors To Save Energy
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Energy Star labels and miles-per-gallon vehicle ratings aren't enticing enough consumers toward energy-saving options, according to economist Hunt Allcott. Allcott explains how new research in behavioral ...

4. Bombshell: Obama Admin. Caught Red-Handed Working with Big Wind Energy Lobbyists, Misleading American People
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

“It is almost impossible to know who is the government and who the lobbyists. They have merged into one single animal with different faces.” – Dr. Gabriel Calzada, Spanish economics professor ...

5. 3 Questions: Hunt Alcott on behavioral economics and the energy crisis
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... a two-year appointment as the Energy and Society Fellow in MIT’s Department of Economics and the MIT Energy Initiative, wants to apply his field’s insights to the realm of energy use. In the latest issue ...

6. Hurricanes’ effects on ocean temperature revisited
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... subsequent storms that pass over the same part of the ocean, because ocean heat is the energy source that powers hurricanes. Stronger storms would then mix even more heat into the ocean driving a positive ...

7. 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 ...

8. Chile committed to biofuels based on algae
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... competition launched last January by the National Energy Commission and the state development corporation of productive CORFO. ...

9. Mechanical devices stamped on plastic
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Microelectromechanical devices — tiny machines with moving parts — are everywhere these days: they monitor air pressure in car tires, register the gestures of video game players, and reflect light onto ...

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

A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, a cell performs ...

11. 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 ...

12. New Battery Technology Could Lead to Self-Powered Devices
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... technology from researchers at Imperial College London that may actually have devices that create their own power. From cell phones [...] Posted in: Batteries, Future Energy, Inventions  ...

13. Life beyond our universe
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... strange quarks are much heavier and can only be produced in high-energy collisions), while the down quark would be much lighter. In such a universe, atomic nuclei would be made of neutrons and a hyperon ...

14. A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... other energy conversion and storage applications. After years of working on a novel way of making membranes through a unique layer-by-layer assembly, the team has developed a material specifically designed ...

15. 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. ...

16. IHS Acquires Emerging Energy Research
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

IHS Inc. announced the acquisition of Emerging Energy Research this week. The purchase price is approximately $18 million. ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. Unraveling black hole spin
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Scattered throughout every galaxy are black holes, regions that gobble up matter and energy. Although we can’t see black holes, scientists can infer their size, location and other properties by using sensitive ...

20. 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 ...

21. US Government Budget Proposals Increase Clean Energy Funding
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

President Barack Obama unveiled on February 1 a $28.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2011, including $2.36 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). ...

22. Record-breaking collisions
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions. This week, team led by researchers from MIT, CERN ...

23. 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 ...

24. Powering cube satellites
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... to begin testing it to measure performance metrics such as the velocity of the ions and their energy to figure out the force produced by the engine. Knowing this, researchers can estimate its efficiency. ...

25. Peering inside an artificial sun
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... release of energy, is the process that powers the sun, and is seen as a potential long-term solution to the world’s energy needs because in principle it could supply vast amounts of energy without any ...

26. Iron-plated snail could inspire new armor
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... mechanical properties. They found that the unique three-layer structure dissipates mechanical energy, which helps the snails fend off attacks from crabs that squeeze the shell with their claws in an attempt ...

27. Power from down under
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Grants recently awarded to MIT researchers by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) could help to pave the way for a method of generating electricity that produces no greenhouse gas emissions, and that could ...

28. 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 ...

29. Whither the Wind
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Production of Inefficient Wind Energy Linked to Government Subsidies, Costly Mandates IER Prez: Picking winners and losers in the market—the cornerstone of this Administration’s energy agenda—is the quickest ...

30. Masdar Institute To Build Bioenergy Project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Boeing, Etihad Airways and Honeywell's UOP this week announced an agreement to establish a research and demonstration project called the Sustainable Bioenergy ...