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

1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. Sweden to build 2,000 new wind turbines: minister (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Sweden will build 2,000 new wind turbines over the next decade as part of a bid to dramatically increase its production of renewable energy, Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson said Tuesday. ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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.  ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. Viryd seeks strategic investors to access new markets
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Texas-based small wind turbine drivetrain manufacturer looks for opportunities in Asia with a new Chinese joint venture partner and investor. ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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, ...

11. China Seizes Lead in Alternative Energy
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The Chinese have leapt past Western competitors in the race for alternative energy, becoming the world's largest makers of wind turbines and solar panels. And they're not done yet. —JCL ...

12. 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  ...

13. 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  ...

14. 5 Unique Ways to Go Green if You're Living in a Dorm (U.S. News & World Report)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

... ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many with energy-efficient facilities and construction projects. A wind turbine at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, for example, provides 33 percent of campus ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. Senate, House panels approve `net metering' bills (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A bill aimed at utility customers who install renewable power sources such as wind turbines is seriously flawed and would hurt Indiana's renewable energy movement, clean energy advocates told a state ...

18. China Goldwind prepares for $1.5B IPO
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

The Shenzhen-listed wind turbine manufacturer names China International Capital as lead underwriter, as it advances toward a Hong Kong offering. ...

19. Marine Life Flourishing Beneath Off-Shore Wind Turbines
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Not only do off-shore wind turbines not harm marine life, but they actively encourage more of it, a very encouraging study has just concluded, after closely following the effects of the off-shore wind ...

20. T. Boone Pickens cuts order for wind turbines, puts Panhandle wind farm on hold
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Interesting article, Pickens is right on the problems with more wind capacity, transmission lines are everything. ...

21. DOE to Support Clean Energy Projects in Costa Rica and the Caribbean
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... Rica, a small wind turbine project in Dominica, and a broader clean energy effort in the Caribbean. ...

22. Novel Balloon-Wind Turbine Combination
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Helium balloon, guyed to ground turns on horizontal axis to make power. Not a new concept (seen it before) and probably not too practical but interesting nonetheless. Could have problems in high winds, ...

23. Cape Wind Controversy Hits New Low, Illustrates Cost of NIMBYism
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... baffled at the Kennedy tradition of steadfastly opposing the Cape Wind turbine project, the first major offshore wind energy project in the US, slated for Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts. But this post ...

24. Nordic Windpower is ready for DOE loan with $38M raise
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

Khosla Ventures leads round expected to help the California-based wind turbine maker double its headcount in 2010 and expand in North America. ...

25. China to be 3rd biggest wind power producer: media (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - China is set to become the world's third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom.  ...

26. The Kite Wind Generator
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

It’s an expert estimation that the total energy stored in wind is 100 times higher than actually needed by humans on this earth. The catch is that we have to learn and devise ways to trap this ...

27. 600W Wind Turbine Generator
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

28. Khosla fund's first investment goes to Danotek’s permanent magnet generators
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

$13M is expected to help Michigan wind turbine component manufacturer gear up for production, with returning support from GE, Statoil and CMEA. ...

29. Tulsa Public Schools Celebrate Wind Turbine
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

30. Suzlon readies new campus, sells 35% stake in gearbox unit
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

67 of its wind turbines go into operation in Australia, while the Indian wind turbine giant sells part of its Belgian unit Hansen Transmissions. ...