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Articles from 8.25.2010
GM Fervently Denies Sub-30 MPG Fuel Economy Claim for Chevy Volt
Yesterday the internet was abuzz with the rumors that the Volt would get less than 30 miles per gallon after the battery was depleted (after the first 40 miles of range...
The next deepwater drilling frontier? Greenland.
by Terry Macalister, Guardian The rain was tipping down on the cluster of multicolored buildings in the heart of the capital of Greenland but there was no dampening the...
Global market for utility-scale energy storage could grow 15.8% per year to over $10 billion in 2015
Utilities know they have to figure out how to store energy produced intermittently, such as wind and solar, or store energy from fossil-fuel power plants to keep the grid...
Apple Refuses To Take Part In UK's First Green Cell Phone Ranking System
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza HernándezThe UK has started up its own green ranking system for mobile handsets, but Apple wants no part of it. The company has refused to allow the...
Americans using less energy, thanks to recession, technology
Coal and oil use in the United States saw a significant dip in 2009 because of the current economic downturn and advances in technology, particularly wind power.
Bill Gates: Spike in clean energy R&D needed
The software tycoon turned philanthropist argues that bigger public investments in R&D are a necessity.
Job Losses Over Drilling Ban Fail to Materialize
The worst forecasts have failed to materialize as companies wait to see how long the moratorium will last before making cuts.
Rechargeable Fabric Batteries to Charge the Army of the Future
A team working on lithium-ion battery technologies that can be poured into any shape or woven into fabrics reported progress in using a non-harmful virus to develop...
Ford Partners With Portland General Electric To Prepare For EVs
Ford Motor Company and Portland General Electric will collaborate to help prepare the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest for the operation of electric vehicles....
Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation....
White House: Energy stimulus is working
A White House report unveiled Tuesday says tens of billions of dollars in stimulus energy funding is helping to greatly expand deployment of technologies such as solar...
More Coverage: Reuters
Local Officials: Lack of Oxygen Likely Killing Thousands of Fish in the Gulf
by Marian Wang Preliminary tests show that a lack of oxygen in part of the Gulf of Mexico caused thousands of fish to die, according to...
First Solar to start building China solar plant 2011
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - First Solar expects construction of a solar power plant in Inner Mongolia to begin next year, the China Business News reported on Tuesday, citing a...
Computer models: All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise
Mimicking volcanoes by throwing particles high into the sky. Maintaining a floating armada of mirrors in space . Burning plant and other organic waste to make charcoal...
Earth's Plant Growth Fell Because of Climate Change, Study Finds
Drought linked to climate change has reversed a decades-long trend of increased global plant growth, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.
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NASA seeking proposals for green propellant technology demonstrations
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Volvo, Jaguar testing flywheels as potential substitute for batteries in EVs
The automakers Volvo and Jaguar are testing the possibility of using flywheels instead of batteries in hybrid electric vehicles to aid acceleration and help engines...
General Compression raises $20M for air energy storage
The next-generation of technology to use compressed air for energy storage is on its way. One of the companies leading the way -- General Compression -- has raised another...
NASA satellite crash complicates gloomy climate budget picture
Last week's failed mission to place the $424 million Glory satellite into orbit doesn't just stymie scientists' efforts to maintain a 33-year record of the...
Bolden defended NASA's earth science missions in Congress hours before Glory crashed
Should NASA have anything to with studying Earth? NASA Administrator Charles Bolden found himself having to explain that to lawmakers yesterday at a hearing by the House...
NASA's Glory launch ends in failure
The US space agency's (NASA) attempt to launch its latest Earth observation mission has ended in failure.The Glory satellite lifted off from California on a quest to...
Depts. of Energy, Defense partner on portable and grid energy storage R&D projects
The Secretary of the Navy, Raymond Mabus, said at an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) conference today that the agency and the military wil
Graphene gives ultracapacitors an energy boost
An alternative to batteries gets an advance from tiny, crumpled sheets of graphene, whose electrodes can store more charge because they have larger surface areas.
Gas from raw sewage could be used in rocket fuel
Nitrous oxide is a particularly vile greenhouse gas and one of the unfortunate consequences of processing sewage. But that's not how a team at Stanford University...
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