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

1. NREL Shows 20 Percent Wind by 2024 Is Possible, but it Ignores the Economics of Competing Technologies
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... 30 percent wind power into the electrical grid that serves more than 70 percent of the U.S. population. The portion of the U.S. covered in this study is [...] ...

2. 3 Questions: Hunt Alcott on behavioral economics and the energy crisis
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... technology-centered R&D investments that we can and do make: Fuel cells, hybrid vehicles, wind power. But we can also invest in new social science research that can inform policies and programs that ...

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

... passes over an ocean, its powerful winds stir and mix the warm surface water with the colder, deeper water. This mixing results in warm water being forced down into the deep ocean and cold water being ...

4. 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 ...

5. Norwegian Company Develops World’s Largest Wind Turbine
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

As fossil fuels continue to diminish and climate change poses an ever-increasing threat, scientists around the world are searching for new and more efficient methods of generating energy. Wind energy ...

6. Wind Energy taking off worldwide
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

The Global Wind Energy Council, a trade association based in Brussels, estimates that wind power capacity grew by 31 percent worldwide in 2009, with 37.5 additional gigawatts installed, bringing global ...

7. German wind power firm to withdraw from Taiwan (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Germany-based InfraVest, the largest private wind power company in Taiwan, said Friday it will withdraw from the island because it does not have confidence in the government's energy policies.  ...

8. Iberdrola says fourth quarter profit doubled (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Spain's Iberdrola, the world's biggest wind-power generator, said Wednesday its annual net profit in the fourth quarter more than doubled to 795.3 million euros (1.07 billion US dollars).  ...

9. First Solar 4Q profits slightly higher (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - First Solar Inc. on Thursday predicted the solar power industry will struggle through a rough 2010 as increasing supplies and dwindling European subsidies cut into profits. ...

10. Taxing the Wind Industry in Wyoming
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

With currents of powerful wind gusts whipping across its plains and plateaus, Wyoming has become a new frontier for the wind industry — the latest energy development for a state that only recently experienced ...

11. America's Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of the nation's wind resources. ...

12. The Trouble with Wind Power
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"By most measures, wind energy has been a great business lately. "But if you think it's easy -- or cheap -- to get wind-powered electricity to places where it's needed, talk to Tom King. ...

13. New wheelchair gets its first real-world test
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... for Whirlwind Wheelchair International, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that produces durable, low-cost wheelchairs in developing countries. McCambridge likes the simplicity of the LFC design, but says ...

14. Sketch-interpreting software
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... CSAIL professor Randall Davis. "We once visited their labs, and we noticed that on all their whiteboards and even on some of their windows they had all these chemical structures drawn using dry-erase markers, ...

15. Wind Energy taking off worldwide
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

The Global Wind Energy Council, a trade association based in Brussels, estimates that wind power capacity grew by 31 percent worldwide in 2009, with 37.5 additional gigawatts installed, bringing global ...

16. A Rose Wind Turbine by Any Other Name…
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

The one knock on wind energy is that it is not portable. Until recently, there were few if any portable devices that were available to literally take wind power on the go. That is changing quick as ...

17. Alternative Energy Grows in Europe
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Wind and solar technology made up over half of Europe’s new electricity generating capacity in 2009, as the number of new coal and nuclear facilities fell More wind capacity was ...

18. U.S. Wind Energy Industry Installed Nearly 10,000 MW in 2009
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the U.S. wind industry had a record year in 2009, installing 9,921 megawatts (MW) of new wind turbines. But U.S. wind power growth is being rivaled ...

19. Jet Engines the Inspiration for New Wind Power Technology
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Wind power has recently received a nice boost as one of the hottest forms of energy on the market. When comparing the recent market growth against all forms of energy, both renawables and non-renewables, ...

20. 25% US Renewable Electricity Standard Will Create 274,000 Jobs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... in some industries. Job growth in the wind, solar, biomass, waste-to-energy and hydropower industries would particularly benefit the Southeastern U.S. and manufacturing states whose Congressional delegations ...

21. Rounds says he pushed for SD in energy meeting (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Gov. Mike Rounds said Thursday he pushed for federal action that would help South Dakota develop ethanol plants and wind-generated electrical power when he met this week with President Barack Obama ...

22. Is It Possible To Convert To 100% Wind Power?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... is trying answer that question with a resounding yes as they power up every single [...] Posted in: Wind Farms, Wind Power, Wind Turbines  ...

23. Wind Energy could be big in eastern US
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Wind energy could generate 20 percent of the electricity needed by households and businesses in the eastern half of the United States by 2024, but it would require up to $90 billion in investment, according ...

24. Wind Turbine Power Goes Portable with Foldable Wind Generator
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... and solar laptop chargers, that can have solar power on the run, very few if any items exist for [...] Posted in: Inventions, Wind Power, Wind Turbines  ...

25. Sydney’s wind-powered desal plant up and running
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

The city’s metropolitan water plan includes the $1.9B plant, deep water storage from Sydney’s dams, and recycled water projects.

26. Rethinking wind power
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Physicist John Droz argues that wind fails six of seven tests as a commercial power source, and is "an insult to science and mankind." ...

27. NREL Study Shows 20% Wind is Possible by 2024
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

As much as 20% of the power connected to the grid in 2024 could be supplied by wind, according to a new study by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The analysis of the Eastern Interconnection ...

28. 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 ...

29. Designer Starck turns to micro wind turbines (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - French designer Philippe Starck, creator of chic hotels, high-tech lamps and modern-style furniture, has turned his attention to energy with the design of two sleek micro wind-power turbines ...

30. 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.