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• Panasonic to Invest $1B in Cleantech: Batteries, Energy Monitoring and More

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 638
  Panasonic, the world’s largest plasma-TV maker, will invest $1 billion by 2012 into clean technologies as part of a plan to focus its core business on outfitting homes and commercial buildings with solar power and energy-saving products. The plan is the latest example of a corporate behemoth eyeing opportunity in ...
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• Electric Car Batteries May Cost Too Much For Energy Grid Storage

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 609
  The idea of using electric cars to store energy for the power grid is a good one, I think . Unfortunately, it may be too expensive at this time to make any sense, according to one recent cost analyst. The same high cost problems that have hindered electric cars in the past mean it may not make sense for the future ...
  2 days ago

• Paper-based batteries made from algae to power electronics in future

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, November 29 (ANI): Reports indicate that scientists are working towards developing paper-based batteries made from algae to power electronics in the future.According to a report in Live Science, scientists worldwide are striving to develop thin, flexible, lightweight, inexpensive, environmentally friendly ...
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• Tips On How To Support Your Metabolism And Improve Health

  
  Health - Wellness Guide — Authority: 438
  Everybody knows how difficult it is to overcome our habits, especially bad ones. When we are young, we let ourselves do careless things. We start smoking in order to assert ourselves; we spend sleepless nights either on parties, or in front of our computers. We do not eat when we have to and do not sleep even when our ...
  5 days ago

• California Gets Smart-Grid Funds to Bottle Wind

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  Pacific Gas & Electricity has won one of the Obama Administration’s 16 advanced grid awards totaling $620 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, aimed at making more renewable energy available to the grid. PG&E’s $25 million award will fund initial work to see if California ...
  6 days ago

• Batteries Too Costly for Grid Energy Storage: Analysts

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Despite all the attention on battery technology for energy storage for the power grid in the latest round of smart grid stimulus funds, current battery technology is just too expensive to be mass deployed right now, according to analysts at Black and Veatch. “Unless battery technology makes dramatic advances soon, ...
  6 days ago

• Batteries Too Costly for Grid Energy Storage: Analysts

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 638
  Despite all the attention on battery technology for energy storage for the power grid in the latest round of smart grid stimulus funds , current battery technology is just too expensive to be mass deployed right now, according to analysts at Black and Veatch. “Unless battery technology makes dramatic advances ...
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• CALMAC Stores Surplus Wind Energy in Ice Banks

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 431
  While some green projects store the excess energy in a kinetic form, such as the fore-mentioned flywheels, others are inventing ways to use frozen water to collect surpluses from wind farms, which are more productive at night, when winds are stronger.
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• Bodybuilding Supplements-What You Should Know Before You Take Them.

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 157
  Everybody needs a different amount of nutrients in their diets. These nutrients include vitamins, minerals and proteins. The body needs these nutrients every day in order to function correctly and to defend itself from various kinds of diseases. Sometimes a balanced diet is not sufficient enough to fulfill all ...
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• DOE Awards $620 Million for Smart Grid and Energy Storage Projects

  
  Renewable + Law — Authority: 116
  Yesterday, DOE announced awards of $620 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”) funds for Smart Grid demonstration projects and large-scale energy storage systems. The $620 million is broken down as follows:  • $435 million to support 16 fully integrated, regional Smart Grid demonstrations ...
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• 200 Flywheels Will Back Up New York’s Energy Grid Starting 2011

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 431
  Beacon Powers flywheels will spin at up to 16,000 rpm, and will be powered by the excess energy produced at night or at times when power consumption is not so big. The numbers are also impressive: the entire array will be able to store about 10% (20 MW) of New Yorks energy needs.
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• 5 Energy Storage Players That Won Smart Grid Stimulus Funds

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 638
  In an interesting twist involving how the $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds are being allocated, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this morning announced that energy storage technology received 16 grants for a total of $185 million from the U.S. federal government. While the list of awards included funding for ...
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• PG&Es Energy Storage Project Gets a Green Light

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 126
  By: Jonathan Marshall Good news for California clean energy: the U.S. Department of Energy today awarded PG&E $25 million to fund initial work on a significant energy storage project to support the utilitys increased use of renewable wind and solar power. The grant to PG&E was one of 16 awards, totaling ...
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• Stimulus funds for local energy-storage projects

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 475
  Bay Area companies have been awarded more than $49 million in economic-stimulus funds for energy storage projects aimed at improving the efficiency and reliability of the nation’s electrical grid, the U.S. Department of Energy announced this morning. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $620 million in American ...
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• How Centuries-Old Flywheels Can Improve the Electric Grid

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 609
  Beacon Power is working to build a smarter grid with a technology that has been around since Leonardo Da Vinci’s time. Here is how the simple, ubiquitous flywheel may become the next best hope for the U.S. electric grid. This post originally appeared at Popular Mechanics . You can read the full post on ...
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• ‘Broken’ Nanotubes are Better at Storing Electricity

  
  Alt Dot Energy — Authority: 100
  University of San Diego researchers have discovered that carbon nanotubes don’t have to be perfect to do a better job. Prabhakar Bandaru, a professor in the UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have discovered that artificially introducing defects in carbon nanotubes would increase their energy ...
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• 4.5 Million Net New Green Jobs Predicted in US

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 131
  A new report suggests that tackling climate change will be a major net job creator for the U.S. economy. According to the report, aggressive deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency can net up to 4.5 million new U.S. jobs by 2030 and provide the greenhouse gas emission reductions necessary to tackle ...
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• 6 Myths About Hybrid Vehicles Unplugged

  
  MixedPower.com — Authority: 113
  Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives’ tales, there’s a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, hold great promise as the key to weaning America from its dependence on imported oil, which represents nearly two-thirds of ...
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• DIY Ecology: 4 Ways To Engineer A New Earth

  
  Life within me — Authority: 140
  (Image via: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratories ) The planet has a fever – and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century.  How do we start? According to advocates of a branch of scientific techniques known as geo-engineering , the only approach is to think big – and change the planet’s ...
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• Eco Tech: Calmac’s IceBank stores wind energy in the form of ice

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 504
  Eco Factor: Storing renewable energy in ice to reduce peak daytime energy demand. Of the total amount of electricity generated by all sources, about 75% is used by buildings, a major fraction of which is consumed by air conditioners. With the demand of renewable energy increasing with every passing day, inventors ...
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