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Geothermal Project to Tap into Volcano for Energy Production
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:39 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
According to USA Today, Seattle-based geothermal energy developer AltaRock Energy is planning on pumping 24 million gallons of water into Newberry Volcano, a dormant volcano near Bend, Ore., this summer.
McDonnell touts 'all-of-the-above' energy strategy
Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2012 12:30 AM EST (The Roanoke Times)
RICHMOND — Gov. Bob McDonnell rolled out his 2012 energy initiatives Thursday, proposing $500,000 to promote the development of wind power off Virginia's coast and knocking the federal government anew for blocking oil and gas development in the same waters.
Artificial Photosynthesis: Twice as Efficient as the Real Thing
Seeded on Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:24 PM EST (io9)
The artificial leaf is poised to be one of the next big breakthroughs in energy. If we can learn to mimic the biological mechanism by which plants convert solar energy into hydrogen, the sky is the limit.
Secrets of artificial leaf revealed -- turns sunlight into storable fuel
Seeded on Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:20 PM EST (News at Nature)
Using a silicon solar cell coated with cheap and abundant catalysts, the device uses sunlight to rip apart molecules of water, just like a photosynthesizing leaf. This produces hydrogen and oxygen gases, which bubble up on either side of the wafer
Floating "Solar Cucumbers" Form Artificial Reefs That Desalinate Sea Water (Video) : TreeHugger
Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:22 PM EST (TreeHugger)
Current methods of transforming salty sea water into drinkable water are land- and energy-intensive and are often powered by non-renewable sources of energy.
Beacon Power bankrupt; had U.S. backing like Solyndra - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:04 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a controversial U.S.
Radioactive used cars are being illegally sold in Japan
Seeded on Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:50 PM EDT (Jalopnik)
No longer able to sell and ship many used cars to Russia, South America, Australia and the U.S.
How Fisker got $500 million in government loans for a fuel economy flop
Seeded on Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:21 PM EDT (Jalopnik)
When Fisker Automotive won heaps of praise from Vice President Joe Biden and a $529 million loan from the U.S. government, officials touted the Karma luxury sedan as getting up to 100 miles a gallon, going 50 miles on a full battery charge and offering "supercar" performance.
Thorium lasers: The thoroughly plausible idea for nuclear cars
Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:06 AM EDT (Txchnologist)
Some proposed technological innovations seem so far out that they are easy to reject out of hand. But sometimes, a new idea has a kernel of plausibility.
Sewage-powered hydrogen fueling station opens in CA | Green Tech - CNET News
Seeded on Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:05 AM EDT (CNET.com)
Could sewage be the holy grail for clean fuel? The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) in Fountain Valley, Calif., recently opened the world's first tri-generation fuel cell and hydrogen energy station, which uses sewage biogas to produce heat, electricity, and hydrogen.
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