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

1. E: The Environmental Magazine - Behind the greens: economics and energy expert Paul W. MacAvoy: 5 questions of environmental leaders
(Feed Articles / FindArticles - Alternative Energy)

March 1, 2010 -- Best remembered for coining the phrase "voodoo economics" during the Reagan administration, economist Paul W. MacAvoy has spent a 30-year career at...

2. Explained: Radiative forcing
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

This is the first of a two-part “Explained” on the scientific concepts underlying the concept of the greenhouse effect and global climate change. When people talk about global warming or the greenhouse ...

3. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
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... said, could come from improvements in energy efficiency, which could both produce a dramatic lowering of greenhouse emissions and oil imports, and at the same time create large numbers of long-term jobs. ...

4. Solar Plane Almost Ready for Record Flight
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... It would be a statement, they said, about our global dependence on fossil fuels and the untapped promise of burgeoning green technologies. The Swiss pilot-entrepreneurs were after "perpetual flight": a ...

5. Yingli Green Energy Announces 300 MW PANDA Mono-Crystalline Manufacturing Capacity Expansion Projec
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, ...

6. Energy: Will 'green battery' market lose its charge when stimulus runs dry?
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The green battery and fuel-cell market has a money problem. There's not enough to go around, even with a $2.4 billion boost from the federal stimulus package. ...

7. Intertek Offers New White Paper on the "Green" Revolution and what it means for the building and construction industry
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Intertek, a global leader in testing, inspection and certification, is offering a free white paper, "Green" Revolution: What does it mean to the building products industry? This paper talks about the ...

8. BP and Shell face new shareholder revolt over tar sands
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... including The Co-operative Asset Management and Rathbone Greenbank have co-signed a 'special resolution,' which would force the two companies to fully disclose and justify their involvement in Canadian ...

9. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Two senior Democrats in the U.S. House filed a resolution to block the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gases on its own if a climate change bill fails to pass Congress soon.  ...

10. WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: As the Energy Dept. Cozies up with “Big Wind”, and US Taxpayers Bankroll “Green Jobs” in China, Many Are Asking: “What, exactly, is a ‘green’ job?”
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

The so-called $787 billion “stimulus” package is creating some “green jobs” — this we’re certain. Unfortunately, though, many of these taxpayer-supported jobs are not in the United States. In fact, ...

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

... and researcher BACKGROUND: Last March, Spanish economics professor Gabriel Calzada published an academic analysis that showed for every green job created in Spain, 2.2 jobs [...] ...

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

... Letters by Raffaele Ferrari, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science; graduate student Malte F. Jansen; and undergraduate student ...

13. In Profile: Alex Slocum
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It’s Wednesday evening, so Alexander Slocum is hard at work cooking up a huge batch of spaghetti, green beans and garlic bread in a cramped kitchen on the top floor of MIT’s Building 24. That might not ...

14. Solar Plane Almost Ready for Record Flight
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... It would be a statement, they said, about our global dependence on fossil fuels and the untapped promise of burgeoning green technologies. The Swiss pilot-entrepreneurs were after "perpetual flight": a ...

15. Kia Crashes the Green Car Party with the Kia Hybrid Car
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Remember when Kia first hit the market and other car manufacturers were laughing at them? Well, they haven’t been laughing in quite some time as Kia continues to put out attractive looking vehicles ...

16. OPEL Solar, Inc. Receives 2010 Connecticut Green Business Award for Solar Innovation
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... ground-based and rooftop tracker systems, was honored yesterday evening receiving a 2010 Connecticut Green Business Award. The Award recognizes OPEL Solar's contributions to driving Connecticut's green ...

17. Four Weeks to Go for Wall Street Green Trading Summit IX
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

There are only four weeks to go until the Wall Street Green Trading Summit IX, the longest running environmental finance event in the US. This cutting edge event brings forth the latest offerings from ...

18. Reflections on Copenhagen: The Economics of Green
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Last year's disappointing climate summit in Copenhagen demonstrated if not proved two important things about "saving the earth":  ...

19. The President’s Bogus Green Economics
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

The Obama Administration’s recently released “Economic Report of the President” devoted an entire chapter to “Transforming the Energy Sector and Addressing Climate Change” [.pdf]. Whenever the government ...

20. 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 ...

21. Greening Deserts for Carbon Credits
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Poor farming practices have degraded the world's soils causing them to release carbon that should have stayed in the soil. In the past 150 years soils have released twice as much carbon as fuel burning. ...

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

... his thesis work. He developed comparisons based on three types of roofs: conventional dark asphalt roofs, cool roofs (such as white roofs) and green roofs (with a layer of soil and grass or other plants ...

23. Bloom Energy Comes out of the Shadows
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

If you keep track of green technology companies, you may have heard rumblings about Bloom Energy, a secretive company that has raised ... ...

24. Is the Copenhagen Accord already dead?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... time by green activists and poverty campaigners as disappointing, gutless or a betrayal, the Accord is now facing its first test in the political arena -- and many views are caustic. ...

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

... for the needs of advanced fuel cells — devices that can convert fuel to electricity without combustion, thereby avoiding the emission of any pollutants or greenhouse gases. This material has now undergone ...

26. 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 ...

27. Richmond Olympic Oval represents green gold for buildings
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Gold medals are not handed out for architectural design, but the environmentally friendly speed skating arena built for the Vancouver Olympics is being called a winner by the bladed athletes who will compete ...

28. Karbone Sponsors Wall Street Green Trading Summit IX
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Karbone Inc., a global full service company, focused on renewable energy and carbon emissions assets is sponsoring the Wall Street Green Trading Summit IX (www.wsgts.com). This annual, premier industry ...

29. California's global-warming law Under Attack
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state's unemployment rate drops. ...

30. 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 ...