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• The Ten Essential Renewable Energy Stories This Week

  
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  news.JPG For the last two weeks much of the world has been caught up in the happenings of the largest international conference on climate change ever held.  Since the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen is stealing all the headlines, most people, with the exception of the ...
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• China Continues Grip On Coal

  
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  While the Chinese government is embracing energy efficiency and investing in new green technology, China continues to burn coal at record rates. Between 2002 and 2007 China doubled its coal consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. This
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• INRS researchers among Discover Magazines Top 100 Stories for 2009

  
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  Much cheaper fuel cell catalysts using iron instead of platinum -- this major scientific breakthrough achieved by INRS researchers has earned a spot in Discover Magazines "Top 100 Stories of 2009," in the January/February 2010 issue. The magazine has been published yesterday. Discover is an American popular science ...
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• Study Shows that State Policies Support Renewable Energy Development

  
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  Plant Growing Out of Light Buld.jpg Experts often tout government policies as an important component of implementing energy efficiency. But, critics argue that such issues should not be subject to government regulation and should instead evolve out of the capitalistic market. Clean energy is ...
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• Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization Announces Energy-Tech Event

  
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  TechConnectWorld10_336x336_banner.jpg The Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) announced an event that is sure to change the way we look at energy.
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• DOE Prohibits Energy Star Labels on LG Refrigerators

  
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  3-door_Bottom_Freezer.jpg The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that certain LG French-door refrigerator-freezers will be banned from using the Energy Star label, effective January 2, 2010.
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• Designer Putting Some Va-Vroom in the Hybrid Car

  
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  Not long ago, Henrik Fisker was dashing up Interstate 5 from Los Angeles to San Francisco when a highway patrolman clocked his Aston Martin roadster — a car that Fisker himself designed — going 97 mph. He protested. (”It was 90 at the most.”). He got a ticket and set the cruise control at 70. For the next ...
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• Self-Destructing Bacteria to Create Better Biofuel

  
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  Arizona State University (ASU) is getting into the bacteria-biofuel game with a bang. It was recently announced that researchers at the University have developed a process that produces low-cost, renewable biofuel from self-destructing pond scum- or cyanobacteria. These photosynthetic microbes have been ...
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• Nevada Institutions Awarded $5.7 Million for Renewable Energy Research

  
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  The Nevada System of Higher Education has received $5.7 million-over the past two fiscal years-from the U.S. Department of Energy for renewable energy, including the latest installment, $3.2 million to be used for a renewable energy consortium – an association between the three NSHE research institutions and ...
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• DOEs NREL Builds One of the World’s Most Efficient Buildings

  
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  NREL-Version-3.jpg Net zero buildings – which consume so little power that they take nothing from the grid– have been the holy grail of energy efficiency experts for years.
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• U.S. and India Cooperate on Clean Energy Technologies

  
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  Barack-Obama-Manmohan-Singh_0.jpg Recently, President Barack Obama and Indias Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that commits their nations to work together on the development and deployment of clean energy technology.
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• Argonne scientists to control attractive force for nanoelectromechanical systems

  
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  ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec.10, 2009) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energys Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force, which attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart. Link:  ...
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• Self-Destructing Bacteria Key to Better Biofuels

  
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  cyanobacteria-ed02.jpg Researchers at Arizona State University have genetically engineered cyanobacteria that dissolve from the inside out, making it easy to access the high-energy fats and biofuel byproducts located within.
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• Duke Energys Large-Scale Battery Storage Project

  
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  Wind.jpg A new project from Duke Energy ( NYSE:DUK) proposes the installation of large-scale batteries that store excess wind energy and discharge it during times of peak demand--not just when the turbines are in action.
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• Dept. of Energy hands out $100M more to risky biofuel, battery and carbon capture projects

  
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  The U.S. Department of Energy has been placing a lot of emphasis on bold, out-of-the-box plays when it comes to cleantech — an attitude that led to the creation of ARPA-E, its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. At the end of October, it gave
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• U.S. Treasury Department Awards Nevada Geothermal Power, Inc. a $57.9 Million Grant

  
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  Geotherma lPower Station.jpg The United States Department of the Treasury awarded a $57.9 million federal grant to Nevada Geothermal Power ( CVE:NGP ).
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• Feds Invest $564M in Advanced Biomass Projects

  
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  To help build the foundation of a biomass industry in the United States, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture have selected 19 biorefinery projects in 15 states to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These projects were chosen to speed up the construction and operation ...
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• U.S. Department of Energy awards US$979-million for carbon-capture projects

  
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  The U.S. Energy Department announced yesterday it will award up to US$979-million to three projects aimed at developing technology to trap and store carbon emissions from coal plants. Such technology is not yet viable on a commercial scale, but would
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• $600 Million Investment in Advanced Biorefinery Projects

  
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  Virginia not included in biofuel project. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate the construction and operation ...
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• Senator Reid’s Clean Energy Funding Workshops -Dec 7, 8

  
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          Las Vegas Workshop December 7th, 2009 1pm to 5pm Clark County Library Charleston Theater West Charleston Library 6301 W. Charleston Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89146 Reno Workshop December 8th, 2009 8am to 12 noon McKinley Arts & Culture Center Auditorium 925 Riverside Drive Reno, NV ...
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