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Superconductor Uses

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:28:37 -0000

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Superconductivity in power systems webcast

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:02:48 -0000

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Sweden Rolls Out New High-Speed Green Train on Old Tracks :: PNN Planet2025 News Network

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:26:00 -0000

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new ECO4 energy saving technologies have been installed, including a new permanent magnet motor that delivers increased propulsion chain efficiency and a "driver assistance system."

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MIT Develops Way to Bank Solar Energy at Home

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:11:52 -0000

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The main constituent in Nocera and Kanan’s procedure is a new catalyst that generates oxygen gas from water and another catalyst produces hydrogen gas. The catalysts are cobalt and platinum. These new catalysts work at normal room temperature in neutral pH water and the whole system can be installed easily.

During photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to break water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms and later on the atoms recombine and produce energy. MIT scientists have tried to duplicate this method of plants to store sun’s energy.

Tags: alternative energy solar storage

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CGEE | Mudança Climática

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:11:19 -0000

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EPA Declines Texas Request to Reduce Renewable Fuel Requirements

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:00:51 -0000

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perceived contribution of the RFS to high grain prices, which are negatively impacting the production of beef, poultry, and eggs in his state

deny a request from the State of Texas to reduce the national Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)

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New York Expands Renewable Net Metering and Green Roof Incentives

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:57:22 -0000

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up to 2 megawatts in capacity, or equal in size to the customer's peak load, whichever is less, and increases the maximum solar power system size for residential customers to 25 kilowatts, up from 10 kilowatts

legislative package on August 5 that will encourage people throughout the state to install grid-connected solar and wind power systems, systems that generate power from farm wastes, and green roofs. Most of the bills relate to net metering, which allows homeowners and businesses to earn credit for any excess power that they feed back into the electric grid

Tags: electricity renewables incentives

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ZENN Motor Company

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:31:17 -0000

Tags: electric energy efficiency cars

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Commissioner Piebalgs adresses the Parliament on high oil prices

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:53:04 -0000

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There is an energy future for all of us. This future will most likely be organised around different patterns of production, consumption and behaviour. Like with climate change, action is needed now.

ensure that 10% of EU transport is powered by renewable fuel by 2020 into practice. It should be noted that this 10% can be covered by biofuels, or electricity from renewable sources.

draft directive guaranteeing 20% renewables

the era of cheap energy is over, and at a time when, in any event, we have an absolute obligation to future generations to move to clean, carbon free energy sources for heat, power and transport due to climate change. This is the challenge facing us.

As a result of these policies, we can expect a gradual decrease in oil consumption in the EU over the coming years, and the beginning of the switch to cleaner more efficient, and often renewable transport.

Practically all of these measures were already cost effective at 60$ pr barrel of oil.

lead efforts in an increased drive for Energy Efficiency

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Storing the Sun - molten salt

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:51:28 -0000

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it offers the capability to dispatch electricity as needed without requiring the use of natural gas

solar technologies suffer the limitation of most renewable technologies: an unpredictable operating profile due to weather variations.

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European Nuclear Energy Forum mtg in Prague

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:10:40 -0000

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European Nuclear Energy Forum benefits from an increasing interest from the EU Member States' governments, many Members of the European Parliament representing different political groups, the Economic and Social Committee, and main actors from the nuclear industry, power utilities, energy intensive consumers, finance sector and civil society.

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Berlusconi returning to nuclear energy

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:09:28 -0000

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A return to nuclear power can no longer be avoided…only nuclear power plants allow for the large scale production of energy, in a safe way and at competitive costs while respecting the environment

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Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world (video)

Tue, 20 May 2008 09:27:09 -0000

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6 ways mushrooms can save the world

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The Gyroscopic Electric Uno Bike

Tue, 20 May 2008 08:41:26 -0000

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The gyro tells the ECU how much to accelerate and that in turn delivers the proper amount of current to the electric motors, one for each wheel.

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Improved Hydrogen storage

Tue, 20 May 2008 07:52:29 -0000

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not only can store significant quantifies of hydrogen but also can release it at lower temperatures than the lithium amide alone (about 100 degrees Celsius) while generating much less ammonia.

he new analysis may point to a practical hydrogen storage material for automobile fuel cells and similar applications.

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Oil Left in the Ground

Tue, 20 May 2008 07:45:47 -0000

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Even with record-high oil prices, about two-thirds of the oil in known oil fields is being left in the ground.

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EPIA: Solar technology prices getting 'better and better'

Tue, 20 May 2008 07:34:59 -0000

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When we don't need the subsidy we will see the market respond.

We can predict that in Southern Europe, the cost of the production of a PV plant with be lower than the tariff by 2015.

no-one could have perceived that we would be producing more energy with wind than we are with hydro or coal. Wind is now only behind nuclear and gas. This is really important – wind is about 10% of our electricity in Spain

So from October onwards there will be new legislation. So the big barriers in Spain are the new administrative processes, because for a normal citizen it is a nightmare to get a licence. The administrative procedures are absolute nonsense.

What is happening in Germany is that most of the modules that are being installed are coming from China and Japan and so on. So it is a kind of contradiction. So our enemies are using this and saying we are investing our taxes in order to give our money to the Chinese. Even in terms of investment, some investments are not coming from Spanish investors, but from Chinese or Japanese etc. So, unfortunately the situation is quite complex.

nd in fact a few weeks ago in Spain we produced more energy from wind than we did from nuclear in one day

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Commission casts ICT in green role

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:11 -0000

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ICT could make not only the management of power grids more efficient but also facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources.

improve energy efficiency throughout the economy, starting with buildings, lighting and the power grid

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EP votes on the Electricity Directive

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:16 -0000

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at least at the regional level of all technical and market codes for the relevant transmission system operators and other market players

An obligation should be placed on distribution companies by national regulatory authorities to introduce smart meters ("bi-directional electronic meters") "which shall be rolled out to all consumers within 10 years after entry into force of the Directive".

Member States adopt a definition of "energy poverty"

ITRE voted that ownership unbundling of vertically integrated companies (carrying out both generation/sales and transmission) be obligatory

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First EU Commercial Concentrating Solar Power Tower Opens in Spain

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:52:30 -0000

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