Renewable Energy News

Posted November 28, 2011:

• 'Fool's Gold' Aids Discovery of New Options for Cheap, Benign Solar Energy

Posted November 23, 2011:

• Nanoparticle Electrode for Batteries Could Make Grid-Scale Power Storage Feasible
• Insect Cyborgs May Become First Responders: Search and Monitor Hazardous Places

Posted November 22, 2011:

• Carbon Mitigation Strategy Uses Wood for Buildings First, Bioenergy Second

Posted November 21, 2011:

• Reliable Nuclear Device to Heat, Power Mars Science Lab

Posted November 18, 2011:

• Corn Gene Boosts Biofuels from Switchgrass

Posted November 15, 2011:

• U.S. Marines Test New Energy-Efficient Weapon in the War on Trash
• Large Differences in the Climate Impact of Biofuels, Swedish Research Finds
• Why Solar Wind Is Rhombic-Shaped: Temperature and Energy Equipartition in Cosmic Plasmas Explained

Posted November 11, 2011:

• 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility, Experts Say

Posted November 10, 2011:

• A Light Wave of Innovation to Advance Solar Energy: Researchers Adapt Classic Antennas to Harness More Power from the Sun
• Rare Earth Metal Shortages Could Hamper Deployment of Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

Posted November 9, 2011:

• Americans Using More Fossil Fuels

Posted November 8, 2011:

• Wood Biofuel Could Be a Competitive Industry by 2020

Posted November 6, 2011:

• Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle: How Energy Levels Align in a Critical Group of Advanced Materials
• Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set

Posted November 3, 2011:

• Hybrid Power Plants Can Help Industry Go Green: Affordable Solar Option for Power Plants

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Solar Power Could Get Boost from New Light Absorption Design
• Solar Energy: Solar Concentrator Increases Collection With Less Loss
• Australian Technology Aims to Make Storing Radioactive Waste Safer

Posted October 18, 2011:

• Industrial by-Products Upgraded Into Fuel

Posted October 17, 2011:

• Links in the Chain: Global Carbon Emissions and Consumption Difficult to Attribute
• New Record Voltage for Organic Solar Cells Opens the Tech to Consumer Electronics
• Now You Can Determine the Solar Efficiency of Your Roof

Posted October 14, 2011:

• Redox Flow Batteries, a Promising Technology for Renewable Energies Integration

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Does Converting Cow Manure to Electricity Pay Off? Successful Renewable Energy Project in Vermont

Posted October 12, 2011:

• New Saudi Arabias of Solar Energy: Himalaya Mountains, Andes, Antarctica
• Cheaper Yet Efficient Thin Film Solar Cells Created

Posted October 7, 2011:

• Measuring Elusive Solar Neutrinos Flowing Through the Earth, Physicists Learn More About the Sun

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Ionic Liquid Catalyst Helps Turn Emissions Into Fuel

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Dark and Bright: European Space Agency Chooses Next Two Science Missions

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Certain Biofuel Mandates Unlikely to Be Met by 2022; Unless New Technologies, Policies Developed

Posted October 3, 2011:

• Electricity from the Nose: Engineers Make Power from Human Respiration

Posted September 29, 2011:

• Hydrogen Released to Fuel Cell More Quickly When Stored in Metal Nanoparticles
• Engineers 'Cook' Promising New Heat-Harvesting Nanomaterials in Microwave Oven
• Novel Energy-Storage Membrane: Performance Surpasses Existing Rechargeable Batteries and Supercapacitors

Posted September 27, 2011:

• Researchers Use Carbon Nanotubes to Make Solar Cells Affordable, Flexible

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Wind Power: Long-Term Wind Speed Changes Estimated

Posted September 23, 2011:

• Nature Offers Key Lessons on Harvesting Solar Power, Say Chemists

Posted September 21, 2011:

• Observations of Fallout from the Fukushima Reactor Accident in San Francisco Bay Area Rainwater
• Steep Increase in Global CO₂ Emissions Despite Reductions by Industrialized Countries With Binding Kyoto Targets

Posted September 20, 2011:

• Microwave Ovens a Key to Energy Production from Wasted Heat

Posted September 19, 2011:

• Technology Funding Makes Climate Protection Cheaper

Posted September 12, 2011:

• Parabolic Mirrors Concentrate Sunlight to Power Lasers

Posted September 11, 2011:

• A Guiding Light for New Directions in Energy Production: Optofluidics Could Help Solve the Energy Challenge

Posted September 9, 2011:

• Rebalancing the Nuclear Debate Through Education

Posted September 8, 2011:

• New Material Possible Boon for Lithium Ion Batteries
• Hog Waste Producing Electricity and Carbon Offsets

Posted September 7, 2011:

• Innovative Superconductor Fibers Carry 40 Times More Electricity

Posted September 5, 2011:

• Photovoltaics Among Fastest Growing Industries in the World

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