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

1. More Pumped Hydro Storage Could Help Wind & Solar Power
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"Currently the Largest-Scale Form of Grid Storage Available"

2. The MIT roots of Google’s new software
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... instruction “blocks.” For instance, to add a button to an application, the user would drag the button block into App Inventor’s workspace window and determine the button’s visual properties by selecting ...

3. Low Prices for Wind Power PPA Kill Idaho Power Deal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Low prices for power purchase agreements helped kill plans by Idaho Power to buy 150 MW of wind powered electric generation through a request for proposal (RFP) process. ...

4. Vestas cuts 2010 forecasts, shares plunge (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Shares in Vestas slumped on Wednesday after the Danish wind power group cut this year's earnings and sales targets following a second quarter loss.  ...

5. A (Load) Balancing Act: The Challenge Of Clean Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

As new solar and wind energy projects come online in California, electricity grid operators are struggling to smooth out the irregularities in power that come from renewable sources. They are exploring ...

6. Wind Energy Instruments getting Bigger & Better
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Renewable energy production and demand growth is gaining momentum in many ways across the world. There is a booming demand of wind power today and all wind energy equipment manufacturers are gearing ...

7. Modular Renewables for the Military
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The military spends a lot of money and manpower getting fossil energies to combat troops. Over the last 4 years, there have been more calls to get modular wind and solar units deployed in places like Iraq ...

8. Denmark's Green Power Island
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"With a focus on the abundant wind energy in Denmark, Copenhagen-based architectural firm Gottlieb Paludan has proposed an innovative design for renewable energy storage called the Green Power Island. ...

9. Clean energy: China charges ahead of world
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

... technology powered by sun, wind and algae. ...

10. 2009 a Year of Growth, Challenge for U.S. Wind Power: Report
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. wind power industry grew in 2009, adding 10 gigawatts of new capacity and gaining $21 billion in investments, a new analysis from DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory shows. Still, the ...

11. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable as opposed to fossil fuels for example which once gone are gone. ...

12. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable as opposed to fossil fuels for example which once gone are gone. ...

13. U.S. Wind Power Installations Fall to 2007 Levels in Q2: Report
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The American Wind Energy Association has reported that the capacity of new wind power installations fell to 2007 levels in the second quarter of 2010. ...

14. DOE Closes $117 Million Loan Guarantee for Hawaii Wind Project
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has finalized a $117 million loan guarantee for the 30- MW Kahuku Wind Power project in Hawaii. The wind farm will use a dozen 2.5-MW Liberty wind turbines and a battery storage system to modulate ...

15. Super-sizing a cancer drug minimizes side effects
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... like beads on a string. The string then winds itself into a nanoparticle about 100 nanometers long — much too large to fit into the kidneys. However, the particles can still reach tumor cells because tumors ...

16. Electricity Generation: Coal’s Share down in 2009, Lowest since 1978
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... the market. Hydroelectric power, wind energy, and natural gas picked up most of the market share coal lost in 2009.[i] Higher [...] ...

17. Wifi hotspot powered by wind turbine and solar panel
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"Students at the Rochester Institute of technology have put together this WiFi hotspot that is powered by a wind turbine and a solar panel. It gets its signal through a parabolic antenna pointed at a near ...

18. A plane that lands like a bird
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... will tilt its wings back at a much sharper angle. The airflow over the wings becomes turbulent, and large vortices — whirlwinds — form behind the wings. The effects of the vortices are hard to predict: ...

19. DOE Announces $30 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Technologies
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... buildings, geothermal, photovoltaics, wind power, vehicle efficiency, and energy transmission and storage. ...

20. Clean Energy Builds Slowly, Despite Federal Cash
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

In pushing for cleaner energy sources, President Obama faces an uphill battle -- wind and solar power make up only a small fraction of the U.S. energy diet. And despite billions of dollars in Recovery ...

21. Spain to cut subsidies to renewable energy producers (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - The government of Spain, a world leader in the renewable energy, said it has reached agreements with producers to slash subsidies for wind and solar power.  ...

22. Wind Integration: Does It Reduce Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Many claim that wind generation is beneficial because it reduces pollution emissions and does not emit carbon dioxide.  This isn’t necessarily the case. The following article explains a phenomena called ...

23. Fresh-Water Wind Farm on Lake Erie
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

A fresh-water wind farm is taking shape at Lake Erie and when completed will provide 20 megawatts and get on to about one gigawatt power by 2020. Huge individual turbines 300 feet tall, to be built ...

24. New 146 Megawatt Wind Farm in Missouri Reveals the Future Beyond Fossil Fuels
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Atchison County, Missouri has just dedicated the new Farmers City Wind Power Project, consisting of 73 turbines that produce 146 megawatts of clean power, enough for 33,000 homes.  In stark contrast to ...

25. Enhancing the power of batteries
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... in devices that are used in hybrid and electric cars, wind power generators, etc.” But, he adds, if it does turn out that this new system works for such thicker electrodes, “the significance of this work ...

26. Airborne Wind Turbines?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Yes, the day is not far off when reaching for sky is the new motto for generating cost-effective renewable energy. Initially it was considered to be technically non-viable to tap high-altitude winds. ...

27. Wind Power Catching Up With Natural Gas in Europe
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

"The amount of power generated by new wind turbines in the European Union this year will be about the same as the amount from new gas plants, according to the European Wind Energy Association, an industry ...

28. Second Wind Uses Fuel Cells as Backup Power for Remote Wind Sensors
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Wind measurement technology company Second Wind has announced a backup energy source for its Triton® Sonic Wind Profilers that ... ...

29. Increase Renewable Energy Sources – Generate More Jobs
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

This has been the slogan that GE, one of the leading power suppliers and energy delivery technology pioneers, propagated all through the ‘Capture the Wind‘ tour across US. GE Energy, comprised ...

30. 5 turbines in the works for wind power project in Lake Erie
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Cleveland Plain Dealer: "A local nonprofit development group racing to erect the first offshore wind turbine in the Great Lakes has reached an agreement with General Electric Co. to supply five turbines ...