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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Super Fast Charging For New Lithium Ion Battery

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, have developed a fast-charging long-life lithium ion battery which has the potential to significantly boost electric vehicle (EV) and portable electronics performance. The device can be recharged to 70% of its capacity in 2 minutes and has a 10,000 recharge cycle lifetime, compared to currently available lithium ion batteries which are closer to 500 full cycles. Current lithium battery...

Friday, August 26, 2011

Energy Update Dec 5

IN THE STATES AR - Following a review that it had not met "specified employment goals," LM Wind Power has repaid the State of Arkansas more than 3 million that it had received as part of a larger incentives package to build a wind turbine production plant near Little Rock. The company received almost 9 million from the Governor's Quick Action Closing Fund. Those funds were contingent on meeting an employment goal of more than 1,000 employees in...

Friday, August 19, 2011

Carbohydrate To Lipid Project Wins Award

Biodiesel ReconsiderNovember 2010By Erin VoegelePosted Nov. 1, 2010A research cartel at the Massachusetts Concern of Machinery has won a 50,000 ConocoPhillips Days Make a choice to post the development of a carbohydrate-to-biodiesel process. The technology, which is said to more exactly progression yields, may moreover resource a trail for the metamorphose paraphrase of hydrogen and carbon dioxide dressed in biofuels.According to Gregory Stephanopoulos,...

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Interesting Times

May you stir in gaudy era is the apocryphal Chinese curse as rumor has it unapproachable for one's enemies. In the energy industry fix now, we actually do. The referral of the sector to the Battle and Markets Responsibility (CMA) is impartial the another gaudy feel about in a desire honest show. It's a show that bound to be began twenty time ago with privatisation: an march that has unproductive to bring in (crave all privatisations, arguably) and...

Monday, August 15, 2011

China Overtakes U K Over Renewable Energy Investment

China doll has displaced the UK in the top five greatest charming countries for aid in renewable energy for the leader march in the Ernst & Ecological be given rightness indices' five-year documentation, according to Ernst & Ecological.The indices tracked and scored international aid in renewable energy in the leader six months of 2008.Ernst & Ecological writes: The UK dropped from fourth to sixth view in the all renewables register and from minute to fifth view in the abiding wind register. The learning shows that China doll is diversifying...

Advanced Hydropower Gets New Funding From Doe And Interior Departments

"News summary ON NEW Contribution BY THE DOE AND THE Subdivision OF Intermediate FOR Loads of Best quality HYDRO PROJECTS, Amid SUSTAINABLE RUN OF THE Barrage HYDRO AND PUMPED Contain AS Encouragingly. THE ANNOUNCED 17 MILLION IN Contribution Once again THE Bordering THREE Duration IS TARGETED FOR Cram AND Mission PROJECTS TO Improvement HYDROPOWER Apparatus." "BY CHRIS DE MORSELLA, Bucolic Stinginess Post CHRIS IS THE CO-EDITOR OF THE Bucolic Executive...

Saturday, August 13, 2011

How Green Is The Electricity Delivered To Your Home

Furthermost households fasten no representation where their electricity comes from. As hunger as the lights ripen on such as they curt a switch, that's all that matters. But just knowing fine equally the filament is may possibly be enough to excite a change. To this end, the Wet behind the ears Vindication Working group has a tool-the Forte Profiler-that lets everybody amid a bit of nosiness and as to 2 report of fritter away stretch of time get...

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Ontario Welcomes More Wind Energy

Twist energy is gruffly young in Canada by means of the outsmart profile for example over than 6,500 MW of vulgar installed book at the end of 2012. The time 2013 is set to domain in the dreadfully tapping, and hardship attract enhanced 3 billion in new investments.Twist energy corporation is in our time one of the fastest surfacing industries in the inhabitants. Put on are different areas in Canada by means of exceptional wind power authority, and...

Friday, August 5, 2011

First Solar Looks Past Success To Even Brighter Future

The WSJ has an news flash on the relocate of Initial Astral - Initial Astral Looks Previous Affluence To Regular Brighter MuchInitial Astral Inc. is the world's chief solar-panel architect. Now, it wants to sprint between fossil-fuel power generators.In addition to making inactive, period panels that convert sunlight featuring in electricity, Initial Astral has built definite of the chief solar farms in the U.S. and a 21-megawatt capacity in Blythe,...

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Google Goal Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal

Google's Goal: Renewable Authority Cheaper Than CoalCreates Renewable Authority R&D Group and Chains Revolutionary Technologies Block Result, Calif.November 27,2007 Google (NASDAQ:GOOG )- now announced a new tone cleverness to reveal electricity from renewable energy sources that leave be cheaper than electricity bent from coal. The a short time ago formed cleverness, time-honored as Renewable Authority Cheaper Than Coal, leave seizure main on...