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Report: Use 'brownfields' as energy parks

Technology / Energy

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Northwest Michigan could generate hundreds of new jobs and generate enough electricity for thousands of its residents by converting abandoned factories and other brownfield sites for renewable energy production.





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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner

US tops $1 bln in stimulus for clean energy projects

Technology / Energy

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The US government has spent more than one billion dollars on private sector renewable energy projects from the massive economic stimulus program passed seven months ago, officials said Tuesday.


Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land (AP)

Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land

Technology / Energy

created Mar 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

(AP) -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population ...


Scientist receives massive computing project award to develop magnetic fusion energy

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Choong-Seock Chang, a research professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has received a Department of Energy (DOE) award to carry out ultra large-scale computation using the Cray XT supercomputer ...


SKorea to spend 3.4 bln dlrs on green IT: officials

Technology / Energy

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

South Korea said Wednesday it will spend more than three billion dollars over the next five years to develop information technology as an "eco-friendly" growth engine.


Accolade for solar-hydrogen project

Technology / Energy

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A research project that aims to produce hydrogen on an environmentally friendly and cost-effective basis by using energy from the sun has won a prestigious E.ON research award.


China: Will ensure stimulus protects environment

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- China said Friday it will strictly monitor the government's economic stimulus package for projects that cause pollution, addressing worries that officials would ignore the environment in an effort to maintain China's ...


Renewable energy

Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D

Technology / Energy

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...


Wind energy companies test waters for offshore projects

Technology / Energy

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

The federal government on Tuesday issued its first exploratory leases for wind energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf, the first step of what could be a race to harness the powerful Atlantic winds not far from major ...


ORNL 'deep retrofits' can cut home energy bills in half

ORNL 'deep retrofits' can cut home energy bills in half

Technology / Energy

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced plans to conduct a series of deep energy retrofit research projects with the potential to improve the energy efficiency in selected homes by as ...


Calif. solar firm hits desert swarm

Technology / Energy

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

BrightSource Energy has encountered some storm clouds in its quest to bring a solar future to large stretches of the western United States. The Oakland, Calif.,-based developer of solar farms has been forced to scuttle its ...



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