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EU ministers call for common electric car strategy

Technology / Energy

4 hours ago | 3 / 5 (1) | 1

EU industry ministers on Tuesday pressed the European Commission to establish a common strategy to develop electric cars.

In Utah, company aims to store energy in air

Technology / Energy

15 hours ago | 3.3 / 5 (8) | 2

A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the ...

Despite millions in tax credits, wind energy firms aren't hiring

Technology / Energy

Feb 08, 2010 | 5 / 5 (3) | 4

Despite the Obama administration's efforts to create jobs making wind turbines in America, some companies say that sluggish demand for wind energy is holding them back.

Obama unveils new biofuels, carbon capture, initiatives

Technology / Energy

Feb 03, 2010 | 2.6 / 5 (10) | 5

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled a new strategy to reinvigorate US production of biofuels, vowing he would not let nations like China race ahead in building new energy economies.

New Canadian solar photovoltaic research network established

Technology / Energy

Feb 03, 2010 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

A new research network to advance Canada's standing in the development of solar photovoltaics will be based at McMaster University.

In winter's chill, cold batteries mean trouble for plug-in cars

Technology / Energy

Feb 01, 2010 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 9

Nobody worried about cold-weather performance of electric vehicle battery packs when it was warm outside, but now that Old Man Winter has descended, the problem is beginning to surface. When cars have a range of no more ...

Obama pushes nuclear energy to boost climate bill

Technology / Energy

Jan 31, 2010 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 2

(AP) -- President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.

The 'Ene Pocket' toy car runs on sugar (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

Jan 29, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 5 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takara Tomy, the Japanese toy makers have unveiled their "Ene Pocket", a radio-controlled toy car with a Sony bio-battery that is fuelled by sugars like those in fruit drinks and sodas.

Smart grid could reduce emissions by 12 percent

Technology / Energy

Jan 29, 2010 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A smart electrical power grid could decrease annual electric energy use and utility sector carbon emissions at least 12 percent by 2030, according to a new report from the Department of Energy's ...

Natural gas supplies could be augmented with methane hydrate

Technology / Energy

Jan 29, 2010 | 3 / 5 (4) | 2

Naturally occurring methane hydrate may represent an enormous source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and could ultimately augment conventional natural gas supplies, says a new congressionally mandated report ...

Honda Begins Operation of New Solar Hydrogen Station in LA

Technology / Energy

Jan 28, 2010 | 3.7 / 5 (11) | 4 |

Honda began operation of a next generation solar hydrogen station prototype at the Los Angeles Center of Honda R&D Americas, intended for ultimate use as a home refueling appliance capable of an overnight ...

Norwegian firm seeks to charge into US electric car market

Technology / Energy

Jan 27, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

With a jump-start from a new quick charging system, Norwegian electric carmaker THINK is taking aim at the US market with a new assembly facility set to begin operations later this year.

Power from down under

Technology / Energy

Jan 26, 2010 | 4.4 / 5 (38) | 11 |

Grants recently awarded to MIT researchers by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) could help to pave the way for a method of generating electricity that produces no greenhouse gas emissions, and that could ...

zeroHouse Speaks To The Conservationist And The Romanticist

Technology / Energy

Jan 26, 2010 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 17 |

As if designing an energy-neutral, self-sustaining home for four was not enough for Scott Specht and Louise Harpman, of the NYC/Austin-based architectural firm Specht Harpman, the zeroHouse™ has even more ...

Dartmouth researchers help secure the power grid

Technology / Energy

Jan 26, 2010 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

Dartmouth researchers are part of the national Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid team that has been awarded a five-year $18.8 million grant from the US Department of Energy with contributions from the US ...

Advanced engine-control system reduces biodiesel fuel consumption and emissions

Technology / Energy

Jan 25, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Researchers from Purdue University and Cummins Inc. have developed an advanced "closed-loop control" approach for preventing diesel engines from emitting greater amounts of smog-causing nitrogen oxides when ...

Developing better batteries for energy alternatives

Technology / Energy

Jan 25, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Get Steve Martin going on the science and technology of batteries and he'll reach for a sheet of graph paper.

Cape Wind's fate unclear, even in Obama's hands

Technology / Energy

Jan 25, 2010 | 2.7 / 5 (3) | 2

(AP) -- After eight years of review, the future of a controversial wind farm off Cape Cod now rests in what would seem to be friendly hands - an Obama administration that's pledged to make the U.S. "the world's ...