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• For Aesthetics, 8 Miles About Right for Offshore Wind

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  One of the big gripes with coastal wind power is the effect that giant turbines would have on the view. Put the turbines two miles out, and they are clearly visible. But put them about eight miles out and they start to disappear into the haze, according to a photo simulation from Clemson’s South Carolina [...]
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• India signs fusion energy research pact with European Union

  
  The India Post — Authority: 145
  The European Commissioner for External Relations & Neighborhood Policy, Ms. Benita Ferrerowaldner and the Chairman Atomic Energy Commission & Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Dr. Anil Kakodkar signing an agreement for Cooperation between the Government of India and the European Atomic Energy Community ...
  4 days ago

• India-EU free trade agreement by 2010, expects Manmohan Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Naveen KapoorNew Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today said that India and European Union have set one-year deadline to conclude a free trade agreement, at a joint press conference attended by the Swedish Prime Minister and European President at the Hyderabad House. Addressing media after ...
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• 2009 Wind Power Growth Close to 2008 Due to Spillover Effect

  
  Breakbulk Industry News — Authority: 477
  Despite the economic downturn, 2009 is likely to be a decent year for U.S. wind power development. Projects totaling 6.3 gigawatts have been activated thus far in 2009 and another 2 gw should be producing power by year’s end. However, roughly half of 2009’s installations are ‘spillover’ originally slated for ...
  5 days ago

• The 2008 WITCH Model: New Model Features and Baseline

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.feem.it/Feem/Pub/Publications/WPapers/WP2009-085.htm Summary: WITCH is an energy-economy-climate model developed by the climate change group at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). The model has been extensively used in the past 3 years for the economic analysis of climate change policies. WITCH is a ...
  6 days ago

• Udall - Testing Pro-Nuclear Waters - Finding a Warm Reception From Some Local Press

  
  Atomic Insights Blog — Authority: 497
  Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) has signed on as a co-sponsor for a proposed bill that would, among other things, enable the Department of Energy to increase the amount of research and support that it provides to small and medium sized nuclear power plant development. The reaction in the Colorado press and in the ...
  1 week ago

• The Cooperative Group and WWF - Carbon Capture and Storage in the Alberta Oil Sands - A Dangerous Myth

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 440
  http://www.co-operative.coop/Corporate/PDFs/Tar%20Sands%20CCS.pdf Executive Summary The application of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been widely cited by supporters of the oil sands as justification for ongoing expansion activities. This study exposes the myth of CCS in the oil sands, finding it to have no ...
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• Aquamarine’s Wave Energy Oyster Takes Big Step Forward

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  MendoCoastCurrent, October 30, 2009Just last week in Scotland the Oyster from Aquamarine Power passed a crucial test and is no longer in locked-down position on the seabed. Now the Oyster moves back and forth in the ocean waves, pumping high-pressure water to its onshore hydro-electric turbine as it readies for ...
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• DOE Awards $338M for Geothermal R&D

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $338 million in Recovery Act funding for geothermal research and development. The grants were awarded to 123 projects in 39 states, across private industry, academic institutions, tribal entities, local governments, and DOE’s national laboratories. The grants will be ...
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• Cost of Installed Solar Fell 30% in Past Decade

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The cost to install solar has dropped 30 percent over the past 10 years, according to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.Most significantly, the cost of PV modules dropped from 2007 to 2008 after three years of remaining relatively flat, according to a new report from the lab, “Tracking the ...
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• Udall risks enviro wrath by floating bill to boost nuclear industry

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 672
  Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Wednesday took his boldest step yet on the road to a national nuclear renaissance as part of a program designed to combat global warming. He introduced the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative Improvement Act of 2009 in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor in which he acknowledged he was ...
  1 week ago

• Snapshot: Northeast Clean Energy Projects

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  More than half of all planned energy projects in the Northeast grid region are renewable energy projects, according to a recent report by SNL Financial, a business research firm.
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• Whale Songs Drowned Out by Human Noise Pollution

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  Endangered species’ communication critical to survivalARIEL DAVID, Seattle Post Intelligence, December 8, 2008The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world’s oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said ...
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• Obama Funding $3.4 Billion for U.S. Smart Grid

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  Globe.Net, October 27, 2009President Barack Obama has announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will create tens of thousands of jobs, save energy and allow consumers to cut their electric bills.Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s ...
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• Sharp sets highest solar cell efficiency

  
  Ajeal Web Portal — Authority: 116
  The Sharp Corporation has developed a compound solar cell that has achieved a conversion efficiency of 35.8 percent. Developing a new base layer for its triple-junction compound solar cell has improved on Sharp’s previous conversion efficiency by almost four percent. Compound solar cells are made up of layers of two ...
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• Noise Pollution Forcing Blue Whales to Cope & Compete

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  MendoCoastCurrent, October 27, 2009Editor’s Note: Over the past few weeks there have been numerous Blue Whales showing up dead on the coast of California and a cause of the recent Blue Whale washing up on the Mendocino coast has been the topic of great discussion and mystery here. Actual cause of death has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sharp sets highest solar cell efficiency

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 708
  The Sharp Corporation has developed a compound solar cell that has achieved a conversion efficiency of 35.8 percent. Developing a new base layer for its triple-junction compound solar cell has improved on Sharps previous conversion efficiency by almost four percent... Tags: Conversion , Efficiency , Energy , ...
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• Bioreactor. “… flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 131
  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has informed:“After World War II, America was the unrivaled leader in basic and applied sciences.”“It was this leadership that led to enormous technological advances. ARPA-E is a crucial part of the new effort by the U.S. to spur the next Industrial Revolution in clean energy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Energy Research projects receive financial boost

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 543
  The first round of projects funded under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has been announced with 37 energy research projects to benefit from a total of $151million in funding. In July this year, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the ARPA-E has received around 3,500 submissions for ...
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• BioWAVE Considered for San Francisco Wave Energy Project

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 117
  EMILY AVILES, Ode Magazine, October 26, 2009Lately, the shores of San Francisco, California have been attracting more than wet-suit clad surfers and their boards.A site five miles off the city’s western beach is being considered for a new Oceanside Wave Energy project.Australian energy company BioPower Systems is ...
  2 weeks ago

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