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• New Project To Assess Biomass Crops and Optimize Them for Higher Yields

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 136
  biomass.jpg In a new two-year study, partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, two biomass companies are joining forces to determine which variations of biomass crops are optimal for thermochemical conversion and how to optimize their usage.
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• AIA Report Notes Dramatic Increase in Green Building Programs

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 136
  GreenEnergyDrawing.jpg Despite a global economic crisis, or maybe because of it, more and more municipalities are getting religious about building green – and developing policies to promote energy-efficient building.
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• Smart Grid projects pick up huge funding boost

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 437
  The advancement of the US Smart Grid has taken another significant step forward after the US Department of Energy agreed to award $620million to projects across the country aimed at advancing Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. In total, 32 projects will benefit including those focusing on large-scale ...
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• Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants Fund Florida and Maine to the Tune of $40 Million

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 136
  doe-logo.jpg Florida and Maine are the latest recipients of the DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program . Through this program, states can implement programs that lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution, and create green jobs locally.
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• Peter Gleick: What the Frack? Poisoning our Water in the Name of Energy Profits

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  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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• Daniel Nocera’s Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 433
  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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• NM wins federal ’smart grid’ money

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 548
  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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• Is global warming unstoppable?

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  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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• Sun Catalytix Gets $1M More from Polaris, Exclusive License to Solar Fuel Tech from MIT

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  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

  
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  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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• 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 ...
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• An upgrade makes “Jaguar” the world’s fastest supercomputer

  
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  Washington, November 21 (ANI): Reports indicate that an upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the US Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community’s most powerful ...
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• Plug-in hybrids clock up one million miles

  
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  Thanks to the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity at the Idaho National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy has now clocked up one million miles under its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle testing. The activity looks at plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in real world usage using both fleet and public drivers. The ...
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• Reference genome of maize, most important US crop, is published by team co-led by CSHL scientists

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize (Zea mays).
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• Federal Government Devotes $24 Million to Biomass Research and Development

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 136
  Money and Grass.jpg While solar power comes from sunlight and wind power comes from wind, biomass is a fascinating alternative energy because it can come from so many different sources – and the federal government is looking into many of them.  
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• Solyndra’s Cylindrical Solar Cell Racks Reduce Costs of Solar Power Production

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 433
  Solyndra Inc. has recently developed a new solar cell system that will reduce the costs of solar power production. They will install it over the rooftop of a North Sacramento plastics factory. This investment will prove to be one of the biggest West Coast solar harvesting systems.
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• Fluidic Energy Captures $5.13 Million in Funding from DOE for Metal-Air Battery

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 136
  Battery Car.jpg Fluidic Energy , a spinoff from Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) Tempe campus engineering studies group, is looking into a metal-air battery that could potentially store 11 times more energy than lithium-ion, enabling vehicles to travel 500 miles on a single charge.&nb
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• Utilities Face Cost and Implementation Challenges with Smart-Grid Upgrades

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 616
  In the wake of the Department of Energy’s $3.4 billion in grants for various smart-grid projects, local governments and utilities are trying to sort out the pros and cons of a smart-grid system, while trying to determine how to implement — and pay for– the required electrical grid upgrades, particularly when ...
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• Nuclear Fallout: Nevada Takes Hard Look at Contaminated Groundwater From Historic Testing Grounds

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 562
  The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing. View larger image. Decades of nuclear weapons testing has contaminated an estimated 1.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the Nevada desert, a region where clean water is scarce and getting scarcer. ...
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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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