Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 02, 2005 - Significant advances in university research and other studies in the past two years are pointing toward Oregon as the possible epicenter of wave energy development in the United States.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 02, 2005 - The Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new computational modeling tool that could make the production of hydrogen cheaper as the United States seeks to expand its portfolio of alternative energy supplies.
Upton NY (SPX) Jan 25, 2005 - Those seeking to design more efficient catalysts for the production of hydrogen and the control of air pollutants might do well to take a closer look at how chemistry works in nature, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory say.
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2005 - A state-of-the-art solar array is providing a unique opportunity to demonstrate the latest in high-efficiency solar cells available for terrestrial use at a demonstration site at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Los Angeles CA (UPI) Jan 19, 2005 - The dragon has been stirring in the world oil markets this winter raising the possibility that prices for crude, and eventually gasoline pump prices, won't be declining for much longer before the summer driving season begins in the United States.
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2005 - Over the past 13 years since BP and Chevron began drilling in the Caspian basin after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the term the new Great Game became popular to describe the discreet tussles between Moscow and the West over the massive oil and gas reserves of this region, newly opened to Western exploration.
Resistance to accepting or dealing with global climate change may persist in the U.S.
Grass Valley CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005 - The Acoustic Fusion Technology Energy Consortium (AFTEC) has been formed by leading academic and commercial institutions to research and develop acoustic inertial confinement fusion (AICF) and its related science, technologies, and equipment.
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 05, 2005 - Worldwide demand for light hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) is forecast to advance rapidly, reaching 4.5 million units in 2013. HEVs are expected to represent over six percent of world light vehicle demand that year due to two primary stimulants: rising energy costs and increased emissions regulations.
Los Angeles (UPI) Dec 14, 2004 - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a top official of the Bush administration flipped the switch Tuesday on a new power transmission line in central California that has been touted as a model for future grid expansions nationwide.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004 - As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun -can be expensive due to the high price of producing traditional silicon-based solar cells.
Grass Valley CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004 - Impulse Devices, a developer of sonofusion power (acoustic inertial confinement fusion, AICF), announced Monday the availability of its research reactor to laboratories, universities, power equipment manufacturers and utilities attempting to produce a new alternative energy.
Portland OR (SPX) Dec 10, 2004 - Portland General Electric (PGE) today announced a 30-year agreement with PPM Energy to purchase 75 megawatts (MW) of wind capacity to serve PGE customers beginning in December 2005. Through this agreement, PGE will purchase all of the output of PPM Energy's Klondike II Expansion Wind Project located near Wasco, Ore.
Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 10, 2004 - U.S. Wind Farming, Inc. has entered into an agreement to develop new wind energy/hydrogen cooperatives in China. U.S. Wind Farming, Inc. has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Global Corporation of Northbrook, Ill. and the Cambridge Energy Group, Ltd., of Northfield, Ill. to develop and own two 100-Megawatt Wind Energy Electricity/Hydrogen Cooperatives in China.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 10, 2004 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a four-year, $12.5 million funding renewal for the Virginia Tech-based Center for Power Electronics (CPES), a university/industry coalition working to help resolve the nation's power problems.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Dec 10, 2004 - Electrical grids worldwide face unprecedented challenges. Traditional sources of fuel for electricity generation are rising rapidly in price at a time when industrialization in China, India and elsewhere is pushing up the demand for electricity.
