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• Power of osmosis used to deliver eco-friendly energy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A Norwegian firm is testing a renewable and emission-free source of energy that harnesses the power of water through osmosis The worlds first test plant to harness osmotic power, a new emission-free source of energy, opened on Tuesday, in Norway. Nestled amid pine-covered hills on the banks of the Oslo fjord, 60km ...
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• U.S. and Israel Grant $3.3 Million to Promising Clean Tech Companies

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 432
  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of $3.3 million in grants for four U.S.-Israel cooperative clean energy projects. The projects were selected by the BIRD Foundation and will be funded by the DOE and Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructures. The four projects will leverage ...
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• World’s First Osmotic Power Plant Goes Online in Norway

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  The process, called osmotic power, is a harvesting the energy that appears when salt water and fresh water meet through an osmotic filter. For the moment, the project is small-scale but could prove the great potential of osmotic energy.
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• US Biodiesel Production Reaches Commercial Scale Thanks to Tax Incentives

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 495
  Enacted in 2004, the current biodiesel tax incentive program helps make the fuel competitive with petroleum based diesel. Unfortunately, the current incentive program will expire on December 31, 2009 at a time when “U.S. biodiesel production has reached commercial scale, and the nation has realized the job creation, ...
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• Renewable Energy Trust Moves to Clean Energy Center

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  energy , investment , Massachusetts Wade Roush wrote: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed legislation this week that gives the Renewable Energy Trust , formerly a unit of the quasi-public Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a new home: the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The Renewable ...
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• Its Finally Official - Indias National Solar Mission Aims for 20 Gigawatts Solar Power by 2022

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  photo: Ryan DSouza via flickr. Rumors and draft reports have been circulating about Indias National Solar Mission plan since early summer, but the program has finally been officially announced. Approved just in time for Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs visit with President Obama , the plan aims for 20 gigawatts on ...
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• Rethinking Clean Energy Innovation

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  With energy demand growing quickly, development of clean energy technologies cannot afford to be undertaken in silos, a new report says.
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• States Test Ways To Turn Consumers Into Producers

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 516
  By Emily Vaughan Coming soon to a rooftop near you. Image Braemac Corp. Four states this year implemented feed-in tariffs, incentives that pay customers for the renewable energy they produce and “feed” back into electricity grids. Three did it for the first time, joining Washington state and California, ...
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• Freeing the Grid — Building Local Solar Markets, One State At A Time

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 432
  It’s that time of year again … no, not when turduckens appear on dinner tables nationwide and it becomes somehow acceptable to call the marshmallow a vegetable. It’s time for the 2009 edition of “ Freeing the Grid ,” an annual report card to states on their net metering and interconnection standards. ...
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• Sun Catalytix gets $1 million more for its breakthrough discovery

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 443
  Sun Catalytix , a renewable energy startup that got $2 million in backing from Polaris Ventures Partners sometime back, will now get the benefit of an added $1 million, making their total investment $3 million. Professor Daniel Nocera made a breakthrough in 2007 with his work that dealt with finding out ways to come ...
  11 hours ago

• Solar-powered car washing machine offers door-to-door service

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 443
  To find someone standing at your door offering a free car wash service is the biggest surprise for someone like me who considers it as the most hectic job. Well, it’s no reverie as Zhang Yu, a college graduate from Songyuli, Chaoyang District, in China, has made a solar-powered car washing machine for this purpose. ...
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• Detroit puts the wheels on solar manufacturing

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 415
  In Monday’s Los Angeles Times, I write about the migration of renewable energy firms from California and the Southwest to the nation’s industrial heartland to tap the down-and-out region’s manufacturing might: At a recent solar energy conference in Anaheim, economic development officials from Ohio talked up a ...
  15 hours ago

• The Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator: create energy and get fit

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  As people the world over continue to search for renewable energy sources, innovative and interesting ideas for generating power are constantly being devised. Those interested in keeping fit and producing power at the same time might be interested in this unique product – the Pedal-A-Watt. It converts your bicycle ...
  18 hours ago

• Electricity Out Of The Blue - Worlds First Osmotic Power Plant Opens in Norway

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  all images: Statkraft If you havent heard of osmotic power , youre very much forgiven. Though Norways Statkraft has been researching the technology -- which generates power by exploiting the hydrostatic pressure created when fresh water passes through a special membrane into salt water -- since 1997, only now ...
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• Wind Energy Pioneer Answers Your Questions: Dale Vince in Guardian Q&A

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  Image credit: Ecotricity Yesterdays announcement that UK green energy pioneer Ecotricity will start selling biogas was just the latest in a long line of headlines from Dale Vince and his team. Say what you like about the man, but from attacking other green energy suppliers to launching a wind-powered electric ...
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• Where Will the Worlds Biggest Wind Farm Be Built? (Hint: Head North)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  This shows Enercons 6 MW turbines, currently the worlds largest (in capacity). Wind power, after experiencing dead calm for the last 1.5 years as developers struggled to get approval and investment money for their projects, is suddenly moving briskly again... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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• India-France bilateral trade hit by slowdown, says envoy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Bilateral trade between India and France will be hit this fiscal on account of the global economic meltdown, a French diplomat said here Tuesday.“Our target was to reach 12-billion-euro ($18 billion) bilateral trade by 2012 from the present 7 million euros. But, I think, it will be delayed ...
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• Careers in Wind Farm Development: Meteorological Tower Services

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  This is the third article in a seven part series on careers in wind farm development. The first and second parts can be viewed here.Wind energy data is collected and analyzed to determine the wind resources of a given site. This involves erecting a meteorological tower with anemometers, wind vanes, a data logger, and ...
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• Another wind energy lawsuit

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 125
  If you have been at Kingston’s waterfront lately, you’ve seen an 86-turbine wind farm on nearby on Wolfe Island.  According to TransAlta, the operator, it’s the second largest wind farm in Canada. The non-profit Hearthmakers Energy Co-operative is proud of the spinning blades and their promise of a greener ...
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• Undoing the Wasteful Incentives of the Energy World, Giving Innovators a Shot: A Talk With State Energy Secretary Ian Bowles

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 704
  energy , Government , policy Wade Roush wrote: In a state that prides itself on leadership in tomorrow’s energy technologies, Ian Bowles is the point man. He’s Secretary of Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, a new position created under Gov. Deval Patrick to ...
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