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• Pennsylvania to receive more than $7 Million for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  Recovery Act funding will upgrade the electrical grid, save energy and create jobs WASHINGTON , DC - Energy Secretary Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is awarding more than $7 million for 2 Pennsylvania projects to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that will ...
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• Peter Gleick: What the Frack? Poisoning our Water in the Name of Energy Profits

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 533
  Image courtesy US Geological Survey Produced water brine pit in Oklahoma oil and gas field from hyrdaulic facturing, or fracking. Here is your word for the day: Fracking or fraccing. [No, fellow Battlestar Galactica fans, this is a different use of the word "frack," although for some, the sentiment is the same.] ...
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• Feds Inject $620M into Smart Grid Projects

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Smart grid demonstration projects should benefit from the $620 million in Department of Energy funding announced Nov. 24.In addition to smart meters, the 32 demonstration projects range from large-scale energy storage to distribution and transmission system monitoring devices. To view a full list of projects, click ...
  13 hours ago

• Which Companies Have the Lowest Carbon Emissions?

  
  Living Clean — Authority: 107
  Beyond making changes in ones personal lifestyle, how can individuals affect the broader issues of climate change and carbon emissions? By supporting companies that engage in practices which they support. This post was originally published on Living Clean at Which Companies Have the Lowest Carbon Emissions? .
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• Inhofe Launches Investigation of Climate Change

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 512
  Yesterday and today, I reported that Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) was threatening to launch a “ClimateGate” investigation.  Late this afternoon, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works did just that.Senator Inhofe sent letters to several scientists, some of whom allegedly ...
  23 hours ago

• Daniel Nocera’s Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.
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• Stimulus funds for local energy-storage projects

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 505
  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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• NM wins federal ’smart grid’ money

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 572
  Two projects in New Mexico won federal ’smart grid’ stimulus money today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced. But it’s difficult to tell how much of the money will actually stay in New Mexico. More than $4.7 million of $6.5 million awarded to projects in New Mexico according to the U.S. Department of ...
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• Gridwise, IEC make pact to make utilities smarter

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  The Gridwise Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders developing the Smart Grid, signed a memorandum of understanding today with the International Engineering Consortium, to team up to make utilities more intelligent.Presumably, the Alliance will integrate its intelligent utilities curriculum integrated into ...
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• IPO talk revs up for Tesla Motors

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• Is global warming unstoppable?

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 643
  SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 23, 2009 -- In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions -- the major cause of global warming -- cannot be stabilized unless the worlds economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.
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• Green project vote tonight

  
  theCLog — Authority: 516
  Here’s a chance to state your case to the Charlotte City Council about our city’s green future: A vote on 18 green projects that would be paid out of a $6.78 million U.S. Department of Energy stimulus grant goes before Charlotte city council Monday. The council meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Charlotte ...
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• Sun Catalytix Gets $1M More from Polaris, Exclusive License to Solar Fuel Tech from MIT

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  energy , deals , Solar Ryan McBride wrote: Polaris Venture Partners has pumped an additional $1 million in seed capital into Cambridge, MA-based solar fuel startup Sun Catalytix , bringing its total investment in the MIT spinout to $3 million, Polaris general partner and company director Bob Metcalfe ...
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• Iraq to seek US nuclear technology: report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Baghdad, Nov 23 (DPA) Iraq, reportedly home to the world’s third-largest oil reserves, will seek peaceful nuclear technology from the US, an Iraqi lawmaker said in remarks published Monday.“The government seeks to produce and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes… and to activate the scientific strategic ...
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• Climate Change: Coming to a Street Near You

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Today sees the unveiling of the latest phase in the Act on CO2 campaign – huge billboard adverts appearing in over 900 locations across England depicting typical British seasons that could soon look very different because of the impacts of climate change. With just 13 days left until the start of the highly ...
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• Bio Architecture Lab, Maker of Seaweed Biofuel, Snags $8M Venture Round, DuPont Deal

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  cleantech , Biotech , deals Luke Timmerman wrote: Seattle-based Bio Architecture Lab , the company using the emerging science of synthetic biology to make alternative fuels, has raised $8 million in its initial venture financing and secured a research collaboration with chemical giant DuPont to make ...
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• Save more 30% on Sony KDL46VE5

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 587
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• Nevada emerges as heat waste player

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  To go big or to not go big. That, apparently, is the question when it comes to tapping waste heat energy, including here in the Silver State. Government incentives and the specter of cap-and-trade emission legislation have led to a spike in investments on green energy. But while solar and wind have the most ...
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• New hydrogen-storage method discovered

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 643
  Washington, D.C. -- Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem.
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• Small Business Grant Programs Worth a Look

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Grant funding is not what most entrepreneurs consider when they think of raising capital, but government and private-funded grants can at times be a lifeline for small businesses or a way to finance your expansion into promising new markets. Despite the new money made available by the federal stimulus program, grant ...
  3 days ago

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