Fredericia, Denmark (SPX) Mar 04, 2010 - Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) and Inbicon have announced the signing of a license agreement for the Inbicon Biomass Refinery technology.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - Random thermal fluctuations in magnetic memory can be harnessed to reduce the energy required to store information, according to an experiment reported in the current issue of Physical Review Letters.
Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) March 2, 2010 - It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm oil is a vital source of income for many developing countries, the crop's producers say.
Stockholm (AFP) March 2, 2010 - 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.
Manila (AFP) March 1, 2010 - Parts of the Philippine capital suffered blackouts on Monday, officials said, as a drought-induced power crisis deepened across the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
New Delhi (PTI) Mar 01, 2010 - India's human space flight programme got a major boost as the General Budget on Friday proposed a significant allocation to it and also sought increase in funds for setting up an indigenous global positioning system.
Madison WI (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 - A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a highly efficient, environmentally friendly process that selectively converts gamma-valerolactone, a biomass derivative, into the chemical equivalent of jet fuel.
Bratislava (AFP) Feb 28, 2010 - Plans for an oil pipeline through central Europe's largest drinking water reservoir in southwestern Slovakia have sparked outrage among Slovak environmentalists and water companies alike.
Fairchild AFB WA (AFNS) Feb 26, 2010 - Airmen at Fairchild Air Force Base opened an E85 pump for use by certain government vehicles Feb. 10 in an effort to cut emissions and reduce their carbon footprint. E85 is an alternative fuel made primarily of corn and the E stands for ethanol and the 85 indicates the percentage.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 - K.R. Sridhar used to spend his time as a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., looking at the sky and dreaming of ways to sustain life on Mars. Now, CEO of Bloom Energy, Sridhar heads a company that just unveiled new technology that could make energy cleaner, cheaper, more reliable and accessible to everyone in the world.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 - Scientists are reporting an advance toward scavenging energy from walking, breathing, and other natural body movements to power electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers. In a study in ACS' monthly journal, Nano Letters, they describe development of flexible, biocompatible rubber films for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems.
London (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 - Britain said Friday a Navy warship came into contact with an Argentine vessel last month not far from the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 - China's top climate change negotiator has said the world's biggest carbon polluter has no intention of capping greenhouse gas emissions for the time being, state media reported Thursday.
Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 - One year after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has cleared Clean Fuels Ohio to begin its work with the Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership (OATP) to carry out over $29 million in alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure projects.
Julesburg CO (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 - NECO Wind announces that Phillips County, Colorado was recently awarded a $2.5 million Community Renewable Energy Grant by the U.S. Department of Energy to help finance its community-based wind energy development.
San Jose, California (AFP) Feb 24, 2010 - Stealth start-up Bloom Energy on Wednesday publicly unveiled an innovative fuel cell that promises to deliver affordable, clean energy to even remote corners of the world.
