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

1. Obama Announces $2 Billion For Solar Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country's use of renewable energy sources. ...

2. Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.  ...

3. Viruses harnessed to split water
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... problem of solar energy: It’s only available when the sun shines. By using sunlight to make hydrogen from water, the hydrogen can then be stored and used at any time to generate electricity using a fuel ...

4. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour’s worth of sunlight ...

5. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour’s worth of sunlight ...

6. Biofuels and Carbon Capture from Frog Foam?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Since time immemorial human beings are trying to use solar energy for their survival and day to day use. We know that green plants create their own food and energy with the help of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis ...

7. Dantherm Power and Leap Power join hands to market fuel cell power and hybrid power based solutions in North America
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... the Partnership to aggressively market their products to North American telecom Service Providers (SPs), Data Centers, and Solar Power Generation Plants. ...

8. A system that’s worth its salt
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

...  A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water ...

9. Expensive Solar Power Continues to Be Built in the U.S.: Why?
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Electric utilities are constructing expensive and inefficient solar plants because of subsidies and mandates from federal and state governments. The subsidies are not free–they come from the American ...

10. Solar Energy from Plant Protein Structure
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Nanoscience is quite fascinated with the process of photosynthesis. They want to duplicate this process exhibited by green plants and utilize the solar power for energy use. Till now power generating ...

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

... as much electric power as the nation currently uses. He’s also looking into ways of storing solar power, using molten salts to store the thermal energy for delivery later. With the right policies in ...

12. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

13. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

14. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

15. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

16. Solar Cells from Tobacco Plants May Be a Reality Soon
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... Berkeley. It will be nice to see tobacco used for something other than lung cancer. This new discovery is based [...] Posted in: Biofuels, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power  ...

17. Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... minerals from sea water. Much of this may be changing, however, as Saudi Arabia is now interested in using solar energy to provide the power needed, instead ...

18. Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... minerals from sea water. Much of this may be changing, however, as Saudi Arabia is now interested in using solar energy to provide the power needed, instead ...

19. Frim hopes to build big solar plant in western AZ
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

An Arizona company wants to build one of the largest solar power plants in the country in western Arizona's Mohave County. ...

20. Trends & Innovations - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Investor's Business Daily - Tobacco plants could play a part in the production of solar power cells, says a Discovery News report citing research at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. Genetically engineered ...

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

... time, unlike sources such as solar or wind power. “So that’s certainly very promising,” he says. “It’s not completely infinite, but for all practical purposes it is.” Probing underground One of the ...

22. eSolar strikes deal to build power plants in China (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A U.S. solar power company said Saturday it will help build a series of solar thermal power plants in China, as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases tries to decrease its heavy reliance ...

23. US solar company to build power plants in China (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Southern California's eSolar Inc. has signed a major agreement to build a series of solar power plants in China. ...

24. Two of the Country's Biggest Solar Power Plants Get Utility Contracts
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Major power companies in Florida and New Mexico announced this week that they would start buying large amounts of energy from certain solar power producers soon. ...

25. What meant the year 2009 for Photovoltaic Industry in the Czech Republic and what did we for it ?
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... in the next year - 2010 !!! NOBILITY SOLAR PROJECT, Corp. ...

26. Despite Action, Spain's Carbon Footprint Increases
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... new house in Spain must have a solar water heater. The country also has made massive investments in solar power plants, wind farms and public transport. However in the last ten years Spain's carbon footprint ...

27. Solar Energy Industry Brings Ray of Hope to the Rust Belt
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Areas hard-hit by the U.S. automakers' slump are pitching themselves to green technology firms. Workers and machines that used to crank out cars are now making parts for solar and wind power plants. ...

28. Solar Energy Industry Brings Ray of Hope to the Rust Belt
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Areas hard-hit by the U.S. automakers' slump are pitching themselves to green technology firms. Workers and machines that used to crank out cars are now making parts for solar and wind power plants. ...

29. Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... revolutionize the way electricity is used and produced on the grid, enabling round-the-clock power from America's wind and solar power resources, increasing the stability of the grid, and making blackouts ...

30. eSolar takes solar thermal to Sub-Saharan Africa
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Californian CSP developer signs with South African firm to sell licenses to build modular 46-MW power plants through solar-rich region. ...