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• What They’re Saying about the Future of Coal

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 125
  Fossil fuels will be a major topic of discussion in the weeks ahead as world leaders converge at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Here in the U.S., public officials and industry leaders are reassuring people that coal –...
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• The Green Economy Train is Leaving and South Carolina Intends to be Driving

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 132
  GREENVILLE, S.C. — Future energy needs are talked about every day all around the world, and the United States must be part of the solution to global energy challenges, General Electric’s chairman and chief executive said Tuesday. Speaking at a summit hosted by the Clemson University Restoration Institute and ...
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• Head in the Clouds. Feet on the Ground.

  
  Energy Matters — Authority: 92
                                                           We’re seeing lots of ink (old school I know butI think of pixels as ink) about Private Cloud. Lots of opinion and some reality. You may even hear words like “tectonic shift in IT”, which makes youwonder if ...
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• Phase shifting roofing tiles save money, look cool.

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 519
  What would you say if I said your roof could be so much better? Why am i asking you about your roof on a tech blog? If you thought there was nothing cool about such things, think again. The roof above our head is a grossly outdated piece of human existence that has remained unchanged for decades. That’s all ...
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• Hydropower Dam Turbine Upgrades Increase Generation by 7 to 24%

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  Hydropower Upgrades to Yield Added Generation at Average Costs Less Than 4 cents per kWh - Without New Dams U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced up to $30.6 million in Recovery Act funding for the selection of seven hydropower projects that modernize hydropower infrastructure by increasing efficiency and ...
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• Guangdong Nuclear Power Plans for More Uranium

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  The Wall Street Journal reports that China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holdings Co., one of the countrys two nuclear-energy firms, said it will need more than 100,000 metric tons of uranium between 2009 and 2020 to feed its growing fleet of nuclear-power plants, a huge jump from current demand levels that underscores the ...
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• Purposely Adding Defects in Carbon Nanotubes increases Energy Stored in Supercapacitors by up to 200%

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  University of California San Diego researchers have developed a method to enhance the capacitance (up to three times) of carbon nanotube (CNT) electrode-based electrochemical capacitors by controllably incorporating extrinsic defects into the CNTs. “While batteries have large storage capacity, they take a long ...
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• Sun Catalytix Gets Seed Funding, Patents for Solar Panels

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 475
  Sun Catalytix , a distributed energy storage company, has received a third round of seed funding, and has also licensed a portfolio of water-splitting catalysis patents from MIT. The company is working on developing inexpensive, non-toxic catalyst technologies for storing solar energy, so that its available even when ...
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• Hyperion Power Generation Reactor Design

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  Here are 18 pages of slides, 8 pages on the Hyperion Power Generation Uranium Hydride Nitride Reactor (H/T Idaho Samizdat ) Fuel will be enriched to between 15-19.6% because this small reactor needs more highly enriched fuel to get power levels to point of economic value. Fuel is a uranium nitride alloy. No fuel ...
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• Nuclear Energy Bill for 100 Nuclear Reactors by 2030 and India Nuclear Power Target of 40 GW by 2020

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  1. Two U.S. Senators on Monday unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at doubling nuclear power in 20 years and increasing funding for research into low carbon sources of energy. Sponsored by Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander and Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, the bill would provide $100 billion in loan guarantees ...
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• Hyperion Power Generation Will Finally Reveal a Design for it Uranium Hydride Reactor on Wednesday Nnovember 18, 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  At the highly anticipated Annual Winter Conference of the American Nuclear Society on November 18, Hyperion Power Generation Inc. will present the "launch" design for the Hyperion Power Module (HPM) to be deployed into the global market. Details will be revealed by Mark Campagna, Hyperion Powers Chief Nuclear ...
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• ARPA E Biomass

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  Five of the recently selected and funded ARPA E projects were for biomass energy * Conditionally activated enzymes expressed in cellulosic energy crops * Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies * Catalytic Biocrude Production in a Novel, Short-contact Time Reactor * MacroAlgae Butanol * ...
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• “Exotic Behavior” Shines a Light on Piezoelectricity

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 153
  A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab have discovered a new lead-free material that produces an electrical current when exposed to stress.  The phenomenon, called piezoelectricity, sounds exotic but it could some day become as common as backyard grills. ...
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• Photos from “Landscape of oil” by Edward...

  
  gedankentank.tumblr.com — Authority: 130
  Photos from “Landscape of oil” by Edward Burtinsky “… and I feel that all of us need to now begin to really take the task of using our talents, our ways of thinking, to begin to deal with what I think is probably  one of the most challenging issues of our time, how to deal with our energy crisis. And I ...
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• U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Meetings with distinguished Indian leaders. “We had productive discussions about the opportunities for partnerships between our two countries on clean energy technologies.”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has stated: ‘… Meeting the climate and clean energy challenge is a top priority for President Obama. In the past ten months, the United States has demonstrated its renewed commitment to these goals both by supporting domestic policies that advance clean energy, climate security, ...
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• Barack Obama Breaks Energy-Related Promises

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  In a post one year ago today, I opined about the nation’s energy future under then-President-Elect Barack Obama:While Americans wait for Barack Obama to take office, the nation’s energy future hangs in the balance.  Still, amidst so much uncertainty, a review of the president-elect’s statements and actions in ...
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• Superconducting Station for Connecting Three Energy Grids to be Ready 2014

  
  r-echos — Authority: 132
  MIT Technology Review covers a proposed hub for connecting the three independent electricity grids that span the continental United States could make it easier to ramp up production of renewable electricity. Only a fraction of 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States can currently be transferred ...
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• Superconducting Station for Connecting Three Energy Grids to be Ready 2014

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  MIT Technology Review covers a proposed hub for connecting the three independent electricity grids that span the continental United States could make it easier to ramp up production of renewable electricity. Only a fraction of 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States can currently be transferred ...
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• Main vessel for Indias fast breeder reactor to be lowered mid-November 2009

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  Indias first indigenously designed breeder reactor - which breeds more material for a nuclear fission reaction than it consumes - is being built by Bhavini at the Kalpakkam nuclear enclave. Lowering of the huge stainless steel main vessel -- 12.9 metres in diameter and 12.94 metres in height, weighing 206 tonnes ...
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• ARPA E Waste Heat Projects

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  2 of the 37 first round ARPA E projects were categorized as waste heat capture and one of the vehicle technologies was GMs lightweight car exhaust heat recovery Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery (LighTER) System General Motors R&D; received a $2.7 million federal award Monday that will help build a ...
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