Redlands CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2010 - The Renewable Energy Atlas of Vermont, built on ESRI's ArcGIS technology, was launched on Earth Day, April 22, 2010. Web site visitors can identify, visualize, and analyze data about existing and promising renewable energy projects for Vermont's towns and counties.
Oakland CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2010 - Renewable Funding has announced that its national expansion continues with new Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs in three states. The company has been selected to support PACE programs in Santa Fe County, New Mexico; Santa Barbara County, California; and throughout the State of Louisiana.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 28, 2010 - Civil engineers at Purdue University have created a roving research vehicle that is dispatched to sites around the nation to assess the condition of bridges and steel lighting towers located along interstate highways.
Baghdad (UPI) Apr 28, 2010 - The political bloc led by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who will likely decide who will govern in the wake of inconclusive March elections, has demanded that illegal contracts signed with foreign oil companies in 2009 be negotiated.
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Apr 28, 2010 - Sentec has finalised a licensing agreement with OnStream to bring Sentec's flagship Mobius technology to the UK smart electricity meter market.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) April 28, 2010 - Crews began controlled burns Wednesday of a giant oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, but a cruel wind shift raised fears the spill could hit Louisiana's fragile shores by the weekend.
Kiev (AFP) April 28, 2010 - Ukrainian prosecutors on Wednesday said they would probe the alleged misuse of funds received by Kiev for the sale of carbon trading quotas under the government of former premier Yulia Tymoshenko.
United Nations (AFP) April 28, 2010 - Rich and poor nations need a clean energy revolution in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Wednesday.
London (UPI) Apr 27, 2010 - Industrial oil-consuming countries should expect to keep paying higher prices for crude because their slow recovery and low demand is being offset by rising demand in Asia, the London Center for Global Energy Studies said Tuesday.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) April 27, 2010 - Engineers raced Tuesday to build a giant containment dome in case robotic submarines fail to stop oil gushing into the sea from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) April 27, 2010 - The Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster will develop into one of the worst spills in US history if the well is not sealed, the coast guard officer leading the response warned Tuesday.
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 - A new form of platinum that could be used to make cheaper, more efficient fuel cells has been created by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Houston. The process, described in the April 25th issue of Nature Chemistry, could help enable broader use of the devices, which produce emissions-free energy using hydrogen.
New Delhi (UPI) Apr 27, 2010 - Indian efforts to cultivate jatropha as an alternative biofuel have stalled.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 - Just think how often your fancy new mobile phone or computer has become little more than a paperweight because the battery lost its zeal for doing its job, says John Chmiola, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). At a time when cellphones can do more than computers could do at the beginning of the Clinton presidency, it would be an understatement to say that batteries have not been holding up their end of the mobile device bargain.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 - New devices that concentrate the sun's rays, increase the efficiency of solar cells, and help to lower the cost of solar energy, are featured in the inaugural issue of Energy Express, a new special bi-monthly supplement to Optics Express, the open-access journal of the Optical Society (OSA).
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 - Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, is being featured by MEMS Investor Journal, a national online industry publication, for developing a technology that harvests power from a small generator embedded in the sole of a shoe. MEMS are tiny smart devices that combine computer chips with micro-components such as sensors, gears, flow-channels, mirrors and actuators
