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

1. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... systems because they believe those will cost them money, but they support renewable energy standards — requiring utilities to provide a set percentage of their power from renewable energy — because they ...

2. Renewable Fuels for Piston Aircraft
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Fighter planes of WWII hit faster speeds thanks to lead additives in their fuel and leaded "avgas" still remains the fuel of choice for top-selling piston aircraft. Automotive use of this toxic, high-octane ...

3. At White House: 14 senators discuss climate-energy legislation (The Christian Science Monitor)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

The Christian Science Monitor - The fate of President Obama's plan to shift America toward renewable energy and away from fossil fuels may depend on the outcome of a crucial White House meeting Tuesday ...

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

... class work.” Energy solutions Slocum is also working with students to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing the world: meeting growing energy demand with renewable sources that don’t add greenhouse ...

5. US $3.2M NSF Grant To Support Poplar Trees into Biofuel
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Bowie State University is working on ways to turn poplar trees into high-yield crops for biofuels including ethanol, the renewable ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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. ...

8. President Obama Announces Three Steps to Boost Biofuels
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

President Obama has announced three actions to boost U.S. biofuel production, including the final rule implementing the expanded Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuel ...

9. POET to outline cellulosic ethanol plans at London conference
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET Senior Vice President of Science and Technology Mark Stowers will outline POET's process for commercialization of cellulosic ethanol and a vision for the future of ethanol this week at the F.O. Licht's ...

10. President Obama Announces Three Steps to Boost Biofuels
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

President Obama has announced three actions to boost U.S. biofuel production, including the final rule implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022; ...

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

... a conditional US $22.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The gasifier will be integrated with Rentech's Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) for the production of renewable synthetic ...

12. US Renewable Energy Industry Needs the Heat in Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... – to promote energy resources that are efficient and renewable. As part of the broader renewable energy solution, biomass thermal can uniquely address the need for low-cost, locally supported energy  ...

13. Colo. federal lab gets funds for biofuels work (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A consortium led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will receive up to nearly $34 million in federal stimulus funds to work on ways to make fuel from plant materials that can be used in existing ...

14. Lightspeed's 2010 Cleantech Predictions
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Lightspeed has invested across several cleantech areas, including solar (Stion), biofuels (LS9, Solazyme), clean coal (Coaltek), LED lighting (Exclara), and energy storage (Leyden Energy, f/k/a Mobius ...

15. Airlines Sign MOUs for Renewable Jet Fuel
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... the purchase of up to 750 million gallons of renewable jet fuel and diesel derived from camelina and produced by AltAir Fuels. The renewable fuel, to be produced at a new facility in Anacortes, Washington, ...

16. POET CEO to discuss global biofuels potential in Copenhagen
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

POET CEO Jeff Broin arrived in Copenhagen today to join global biofuel and agriculture leaders in a discussion about how biofuels can be deployed sustainably, achieve rapid reductions in greenhouse gas ...

17. Hudson raises more than $1B clean energy fund
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

U.S.-based private equity firm is expected to invest in renewable power, alternative fuels, energy efficiency, and storage. ...

18. Biomass Thermal Energy Policy Briefing a Success
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC), the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI), and the Alliance for Green Heat briefed a combined audience of Democrat and Republican congressional staffers about the benefits ...

19. Joule Unveils Solar-to-Biodiesel Process
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Joule Biotechnologies Inc. at an industry event in Hawaii said that in its development of renewable fuels, it has achieved direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into hydrocarbons via engineered ...

20. Renewable Fuel Standard 2.0
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

I have heard that some people are worried that renewable fuel standards or low-carbon fuel standards or simple market forces favoring biofuels will "cause people to rip up sustainable soybean fields and ...

21. The Federal Energy Subsidy Scorecard: How Renewables Stack Up
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In a speech at the United Nations and afterward at the G-20 summit meeting in September, President Obama called for elimination of government subsidies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting fossil fuels. ...

22. China National Petroleum, UOP team on biofuels project
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

The companies said they plan to evaluate producing clean diesel and renewable jet fuel from Chinese feedstocks. ...

23. 3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the reduction targets, the possibility of banking or borrowing of permits over time, the amounts of offsets, and any additional measures directed at greenhouse gas reduction, such as renewable electricity ...

24. Funding a Diverse Portfolio of Clean Vehicle and Energy Technologies is Right Choice for America
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

The comprehensive approach to advancing transportation and clean energy technologies embodied in the energy spending bill signed by President Obama this week is the best way to assure that the nation ...

25. Fossil Fuel Subsidies More Than Double Those for Renewables
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The largest U.S subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production, according to research from the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). The study, which reviewed fossil ...

26. Renewable fuels may have hidden costs, study says
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Renewable Fuels Association, a Washington trade group representing the vast majority of U.S. ethanol producers, counters that regulations are already in place to require greenhouse gas emissions reductions ...

27. U.S. Climate Plan will Boost Nuclear, Renewables
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... from being based on fossil fuels to more nuclear and renewable power. ...

28. U.S. Climate Plan will Boost Nuclear, Renewables
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... from being based on fossil fuels to more nuclear and renewable power. ...

29. U.S. Climate Plan will Boost Nuclear, Renewables
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... from being based on fossil fuels to more nuclear and renewable power. ...

30. Are Biofuels Ready for a Comeback?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... a tinted glass door – hardly the type of labeling one might expect from a company claiming to have the answer to cheap, abundant, renewable fuels that don't require fresh water or farmland to grow. ...