With adequate financial and political support, renewable energy technologies like wind and photovoltaics could supply 40 percent of the world's…
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Mar 14, 2009 - An international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials. Experimental and theoretical efforts were combined in a synergistic approach and the results, published this week in the ASAP section of the journal Nano Letters, will fasten efforts to develop new catalysts.
Frederikshavn, Denmark (AFP) March 13, 2009 - Denmark's northern port of Frederikshavn is not waiting for the rest of the world. It has launched a green revolution to become, within seven years, the first city ever powered solely by renewable energy.
Destiny FL (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - Destiny, located in Osceola County in central Florida, will be America's first eco-sustainable city and the largest planned environmental development in the United States.
Charlotte NC (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - Duke Energy's plan to build a 66-turbine wind power project near Casper, Wyo., remains on schedule to start construction this spring, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state environmental commission to approve the project's permit.
Wuhan, China (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break down 50% more crude oil than soil lacking the guano.
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - Geothermal energy is increasingly contributing to the power supply world wide. Iceland is world-leader in expanding development of geothermal utilization: in recent years the annual power supply here doubled to more than 500 MW alone in the supply of electricity.
Bird Island MN (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - National Wind and Norfolk Wind Energy has announced plans to develop a new community wind project in Renville County, Minnesota. National Wind will act as the project manager for Norfolk Wind Energy, and will assist in the development of 40 megawatts (MW) of community-based wind power in central Minnesota, with the opportunity to expand the project.
Tehachapi CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - Green St. Energy has announced that a recently completed sale of the Alta Wind Project in Tehachapi, located in the County of Kern, California, a prolific area for the production of energy from wind, validates the Company's decision to enter into an option agreement that provides it a three-year option to acquire 4,840 areas of land located in Tehachapi to develop a wind farm.
Officials with Santee Cooper, Coastal Carolina University and the South Carolina Energy Office have announced the launch of weather buoys that will measure…
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - NASA researchers who developed a new way to power robotic underwater vehicles believe a spin-off technology could help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale. The researchers hope that clean, renewable energy produced from the motion of the ocean and rivers could potentially meet an important part of the world's demand for electricity.
Hanoi (AFP) March 13, 2009 - Vietnam protested against a bill signed into law in the Philippines, saying that it lays claim to parts of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, state media said Friday.
Novi MI (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - Wind-generated electricity from the upper Midwest will become cost-competitive with power generated from more conventional fuel sources like coal, while providing substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions when connected to the nation's electricity grid via new extra-high voltage transmission lines, a new study by The Brattle Group has concluded.
Topping VA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009 - XcelPlus Global Holdings has successfully completed a test of its GlyCoal clean energy fuel at an Edison Power-owned 80-megawatt plant in West Virginia.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - Senate leadership wants to override a recent court ruling and keep final authority over the national electricity grid in the hands of federal regulators -- a proposal some utilities, states and policymakers adamantly oppose.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - The Nigerian government has announced it will bolster security in the petroleum-rich Niger Delta to combat the region's armed gunmen, following reports that oil production has reached a new low in the region.
