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

1. Explained: Quantitative easing
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... — is showing sputtering growth. However, the Fed’s short-term interest rates are already near zero, making significant further cuts unrealistic. Given these circumstances, central banks, including the ...

2. Teams set off on global 'zero emissions' race (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Teams from Australia, Germany and Switzerland have set off from Geneva for what they hope will be the first carbon neutral race around the world.

3. Here Come the Electric Cars: "Leaf" and "Volt"
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... battery while the vehicle is in motion. While this gives the Volt unlimited effective range, it means that the Volt is not truly "zero emissions". ...

4. Stringing together a picture of superconductors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... contain copper) can superconduct at relatively high temperatures (up to 135 degrees Celsius above absolute zero). At the atomic level, cuprates are classified as a “many-body system” — essentially a ...

5. Zero Emissions Australia, the Highest Ambitions from Down Under
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

6. Here Come the Electric Cars: "Leaf" and "Volt"
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... battery while the vehicle is in motion. While this gives the Volt unlimited effective range, it means that the Volt is not truly "zero emissions". ...

7. Unraveling the Matrix
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Most of the numbers in a banded matrix are zeroes; the only exceptions fall along diagonal bands, at or near the central diagonal of the matrix. This may sound like an esoteric property, but it often has ...

8. Swiss Solar-Powered Plane Makes First Night Flight
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... who are preparing for a zero-emission flight around the world. ...

9. Competitor points to BP-driller relationship (AP)
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AP - The first public hearing by a presidential oil spill panel Monday zeroed in on the relationship between BP and the company it hired to drill the now exploded rig.  ...

10. MillerCoors Hits Waste Goals 5 Years Early
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... waste reduction goals 5 years early, and has achieved "zero waste" at two of its brewing facilities. ...

11. Fuel Cell Hybrid London Taxi Unveiled
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

A British consortium including Intelligent Energy, Lotus Engineering, LTI Vehicles and TRW Conekt has unveiled a zero-emissions Fuel Cell ... ...

12. Obama tells Florida he'll do "whatever it takes" (McClatchy Newspapers)
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McClatchy Newspapers - PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hours before President Barack Obama was to address the nation, he came to Florida's ground zero on the Gulf oil spill crisis and pledged that his administration ...

13. Explained: Quark gluon plasma
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... plasma and whether it becomes gas-like at higher temperatures. They also want to delve further into the very surprising similarities that have been seen between QGP and ultracold gases (near absolute zero) ...

14. How the brain recognizes objects
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... By the same token, if it’s asked to search the image for a particular kind of object, the interestingness of features not found in that object will go to zero, and the interestingness of features found ...

15. Bangladesh—Eco Symbol?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... change,' he says. 'This is ground zero.' ...

16. Explained: The Carnot Limit
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... steam in a power plant — and its cooled-off temperature as it leaves the engine, divided by the temperature in degrees Kelvin (that is, degrees above absolute zero) of the hot fluid. This theoretical efficiency ...

17. AltaTerra Web Conference on Net Zero Energy Buildings Unites Efficiency and Solar
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The web conference, "Net Zero Energy Buildings: Emerging Trend Unites Efficiency and Solar," featuring David Kaneda, Founder and President of Integrated Design Associates (IDeAs) and Reuben Schwartz, ...

18. Scientists Resurrect Mammoth Hemoglobin
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia coli bacteria, scientists have figured out how these ancient beasts adapted to the subzero temperatures of prehistoric Siberia and North ...

19. Scientists Resurrect Mammoth Hemoglobin
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia coli bacteria, scientists have figured out how these ancient beasts adapted to the subzero temperatures of prehistoric Siberia and North ...

20. BAE Systems to Develop Fuel Cell Bus for SunLine Transit
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

BAE Systems plans to develop a zero-emissions bus for a Southern California regional transit agency under a project to demonstrate the ... ...

21. New views at the nanoscale
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Tao still need to obtain the refrigeration unit that will cool the system to just above absolute zero. The system must be cooled to 50 millikelvins to minimize thermal vibrations, which interfere with ...

22. The pull of artificial gravity
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... zero gravity, according to Justin Kaderka, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who has studied the effectiveness of artificial gravity. Without gravity, bone loses ...

23. Vision Industries receives purchase order from the Port of Los Angeles
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Los Angeles, Calif.--(MARKETWIRE)— Vision Industries Corp. (OTCBB: VIIC), producers of the zero emission electric/hydrogen hybrid ... ...

24. Zero Baggage Eliminates the Need for Checked Luggage
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... for each destination, is what to wear when you get there. Zero Baggage hopes to provide the answer. The startup has concocted a service for travelers that provides them with the ...

25. Taming the wild phonon
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... back. The phonons that are reflected from this newly developed material are in the range of low-frequency heat (since anything above absolute zero, or minus 273 degrees Celsius, is considered heat, which ...

26. Explained: Regression analysis
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... (the value of Y when X is zero) and a1 is the slope of the line, characterizing the relationship between the two variables. Using two slightly more complex equations, the “normal equations” for the basic ...

27. Microvi focuses on zero waste with biological water treatment
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

California-based startup is one of 35 new companies the Cleantech Group spotted in the past week looking to raise money. Details in the Pitch o’ the week.

28. Explained: Radiative forcing
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... other than zero, there has to be some warming (or cooling, if the number is negative) going on. It’s as if you have a kettle full of water, which is at room temperature. That means everything is at equilibrium, ...

29. Hurricanes’ effects on ocean temperature revisited
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... Ferrari’s team concluded that this amount is actually between zero and .3 petawatts with a most likely estimate of .15 petawatts. The analysis suggests that the major part of a warm anomaly sits in the ...

30. CRTs going down the tubes? Hardly
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... are now manufactured in Asia. Sales of CRT computer monitors peaked around 2000 at about 90 million units, but have already declined to near zero. Because the glass used in CRTs contains a substantial ...