 Revolutionary green technology bus July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Insight from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, commitment from two Michigan companies and funding from the Department of Energy have led to the commercialization of a lightweight urban transit bus with double ... | |
New biomass technology dramatically increases ethanol yield from grasses and yard waste July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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University of Georgia researchers have developed a new technology that promises to dramatically increase the yield of ethanol from readily available non-food crops, such as Bermudagrass, switchgrass, Napiergrass—and even ... | |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
Closing the hydrogen economic loop July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. | |
Hydrogen vehicles making impressive progress toward commercialization July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive ... | |
Hyundai to Start Retail Sales of First Hybrid in July 2009 July 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Hyundai Motor Company plans to start retail sales of its first LPG–electric hybrid vehicle in July 2009. To be sold initially in the Korean domestic market under the Avante badge, the Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) ... | |
 Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves. | |
 Solution to high energy costs could lie underground July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it’s not coal or oil. It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES). | |
Major progress in technology needed for 25 percent renewable energy use to be affordable June 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025 without significantly increasing consumer ... | |
Abandoned farmlands are key to sustainable bioenergy June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and ... | |
Electrical A-G Ratings may be on the way out June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Plans to scrap the A-G electrical rating system – the equivalent of HIPS in the electrical sector – may be on the cards according to a new report out today in the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) magazine, Chemistry & ... | |
 Cambridge University Eco Racing solar car drive across Britain June 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
This year Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) have designed and built the UK's first road legal solar car. | |
 Getting wrapped up in solar textiles June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute ... | |
ORNL, General Electric collaborate on super efficient electric water heater June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Electric have collaborated to finalize, test and market the first product from a major brand to meet DOE's new Energy Star criteria for electric heat pump ... | |
 Prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance June 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A cryogenic pressure vessel developed and installed in an experimental hybrid vehicle by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research team can hold liquid hydrogen for six days without venting any of ... | |
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