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Fuel Cells for Cleaner Coal? Key Milestone Achieved in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell...
Coal is the world's fastest growing source of energy, and at the center of the debate over advancing our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions even as we attempt to meet the demands of a global doubling of...
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Chinese Automaker SAIC, Taps US-based Battery Startup A123 for Coming...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese car maker SAIC is planning to use lithium ion battery technology from promising startup A123 Systems of Watertown, MA.This is not game-changing news,...
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UK Researchers Advance Room Temperature Superconductivity Using Carbon...
Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Durham University have developed a new carbon nanotube material that might evolve as a room temperature superconductor used to transmit electricity with no...
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GM & Segway Unveil Personal Urban Mobility Vehicle, Demonstrate Disruptive...
General Motors and Segway unveiled a new type of small electric motor vehicle with advanced software that could shift how we look at mobility as a service.In an effort to appeal to digitally connected...
View Article[Video] GM Segway PUMA Cruising Through Brooklyn & New York City
GM & Segway are hoping to commercialize a new category of smart micro-vehicles for urban environments by 2012 (See previous post). I love the application of Segway software, but am skeptical of a...
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Virus Built Batteries? MIT Advances Bio-Industrial Manufacturing Technique to...
MIT's Biomolecular Materials Group has advanced a technique of using 'genetically engineered viruses that first coat themselves with iron phosphate, then grab hold of carbon nanotubes to create a...
View Article[Video] An Inside Look at the University of Texas-Austin Algae Species...
The Future of Algae has been a hot topic among energy and cleantech bloggers, but it is still way off the radar of mainstream media. This Wall Street Journal video looks at one of the world's leading...
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu Announces $41 Million for Fuel Cells...
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced $41 million to support the 'immediate deployment of nearly 1,000 fuel cell systems for emergency backup power and material handling applications (e.g.,...
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Oregon Researchers Use Nano-shells of Algae to Trap Photons and Improve Solar...
The Future of Energy will be based on our ability to elegantly control the interactions of light, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and metals. And for all our engineering prowress of extracting and blowing up...
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Northeastern Researchers Use Coated Nanotubes to Improve Splitting of Water...
Researchers from Northeastern University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved the efficiency of clustered nanotubes used in solar cells to produce hydrogen by...
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Obama Administration announces $777 million for Energy Frontier Research...
The Obama Administration is following through on a major campaign promise: funding basic energy science. Do you want Hope? (Or maybe long term optimism!)Stop looking for 'short term' solutions and...
View Article[Video] 60 Minutes Clean Coal Program Misses Chance to Introduce Bio-based...
60 Minutes recently aired a program on the future of coal power featuring Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers (an advocate of longer term 'Cathedral Thinking' carbon reduction) and leading climate scientist...
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NPR's Interactive Map of US Electricity Grid and Solar-Wind Potential
NPR has released a fantastic interactive map of the US Electrical Grid as part of its Series - Power Hungry: Re-Envisioning Electricity in the US. The tool looks at grid connection points, major...
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Yale Researchers Build Nano-sized Cantilever that Bends with Light
Creating devices that can manipulate and interact with light (photons) is not an easy feat, but the potential pay off is tremendous as we consider the wide-reaching applications of nano-photonics....
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[Video] Watch This Video of Andy Karsner Speaking at Art Center of Pasadena...
The Art Center of Pasadena has released video highlights from its recent Summit: Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility held in March 2009. There are a number of energy related videos to share,...
View Article[Video] NY Times Features Electric Car Startups Fisker Karma and Aptera
Category: TransportationYear: GeneralTags: energy, transportation, electricity, hydrogen, batteries, fuel, cells, fuelcells, cars
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Cellulosic Biofuel Startup Mascoma Announces Breakthough in Single Step...
Cellulosic biofuels startup Mascoma has announced a breakthrough in a single step consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) method used in converting non-food biomass feedstocks into liqud cellulosic ethanol.By...
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Researchers Design Nanoscale Fuel Cell Catalyst Using Less Platinum
The nanoscale design of basic energy components is once again revealing new solutions to the historical problems of high cost alternative energy systems.Materials scientists from Washington University...
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[Video] Oil 101: Geology Professor Reminds Us That Oil Does NOT Come From...
The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena should get bonus points for including an Energy 101 presenation at its recent 2009 Summit: Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility. Most conferences...
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Researchers Create Model for Synthetic Hydrogen Catalyst Using Low Cost...
Researchers at the University of Illinois have created a synthetic catalyst model of the active hydrogen producing site of a naturally occuring enzyme based on 'cheap and plentiful building blocks –...
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