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Apr 1 | News
The
Great Lakes currently have no offshore wind turbines, but several plans
to install them are in the works. Both federal and state governments
are about to announce an agreement to speed up approval of the farms,
which have been delayed by cost concerns and public opposition.
Feb 7 | News
According
to researchers, the superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion
reactor in Switzerland are unable to withstand the planned 40,000 to
60,000 charge cycles of an upcoming fusion experiment in March. At team
at the University of Twente in The Netherlands has engineered a new
configuration they believe will solve the problem.
Feb 1 | News
Tons
and tons of old produce goes to waste each year, much of it simply
thrown away. A new biogas plant near Stuttgart, in Germany, has been
built specifically to convert this market waste into methane for
commercial use
Jan 20 | News
Through
a draft Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) announced Friday, the
U.S> Department of Energy plans to establish cost-shared agreements
with private industry to support the design and licensing of small
modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). About one-third the size of current
nuclear plants, SMR are expected to both safer and cheaper to build and
operate.
Jan 15 | News
Geothermal
energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the
side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate
new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that
has yet to live up to its promise. The federal government, Google and
other investors are interested enough to bet $43 million on the project.
8/25/2011 | News
Last summer, a uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico became the first major nuclear facility licensed in the United States in 30 years. A federal commission has given it the green light to begin operating more of its massive processing system.
8/2/2011 | News
An
international team of scientists has amassed the largest data set to
date on greenhouse gas emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs. Prior
studies cautioned that these reservoirs could be a significant and large
source of both carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere, but the
new study claims the real output is just a fraction of previous
estimates.
7/5/2011 | News
Across
India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through small
companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity
grid to deliver solar panels to the rural poor. Those customers could
provide the human energy that advocates of solar power have been looking
for to fuel a boom in the next decade.
6/20/2011 | News
According
to an extensive investigation by the Associated Press, federal
regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to
keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by
repeatedly weakening those standards. The report claims that nuclear
regulatory officials have often decided original regulations are too
strict and has argued that safety margins could be eased without peril.
6/16/2011 | News
Pacific
Northwest National Lab has teamed with a private partner to test the
capabilities of a new fuel cell system that uses natural gas to provide
both electricity and heat to commercial buildings. ClearEdge Power is a
supplying the refrigerator-shaped cells, which breaks down hydrogen-rich
gas to react with oxygen and produce electricity, with heat as a
byproduct.
