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Reducing Cash Bite of Wind Power
March 29, 2012 A professor has a piece of advice for the State of Illinois, which faces a renewable energy deadline in 2025: Investment Tax Credit. Illinois is obligated to begin increasing electricity production ... > full story -
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Playing at Home Energy Savings
March 28, 2012 An approach to cutting domestic energy consumption based on playing a game - Energy Battle - can lead to household savings of up to 45% on electricity consumption and lead to better energy-saving ... > full story -
Wind Turbines That Learn Like Humans
March 27, 2012 A control algorithm inspired by human memory may increase wind turbine efficiency while requiring less computational power than other control ... > full story -
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New Dimension for Solar Energy: Innovative 3-D Designs More Than Double the Solar Power Generated Per Area
March 27, 2012 Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and bringing down their cost. But very little attention has been paid to the best ways of ... > full story -
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Butterfly Wings' 'Art of Blackness' Could Boost Production of Green Fuels
March 26, 2012 Butterfly wings may rank among the most delicate structures in nature, but they have given researchers powerful inspiration for new technology that doubles production of hydrogen gas — a green ... > full story -
Nuclear Power Plants Can Produce Hydrogen to Fuel the 'Hydrogen Economy'
March 26, 2012 The long-sought technology for enabling the fabled “hydrogen economy” — an era based on hydrogen fuel that replaces gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels, easing concerns about ... > full story -
Brown Liquor and Solar Cells to Provide Sustainable Electricity
March 22, 2012 A breakthrough for inexpensive electricity from solar cells, and a massive investment in wind power, will mean a need to store energy in an intelligent way. According to new research batteries of ... > full story -
Far Higher Potential for Wind Energy in India Than Previously Estimated
March 21, 2012 A new assessment of wind energy in India has found that the potential for on-shore wind energy deployment is far higher than the official estimates -- about 20 times and up to 30 times greater than ... > full story -
Nuclear Fusion Simulation Shows High-Gain Energy Output
March 20, 2012 A computer simulation that shows a release of high-yield fusion energy much greater than previously achieved at Sandia's Z accelerator is being prepared for testing in ... > full story -
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New Method for Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste
March 20, 2012 A new crystalline compound can be tailored to safely absorb radioactive ions from nuclear waste streams, experts ... > full story
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