News tagged with electricity generation
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Storing green electricity as natural gas
Renewable electricity can be transformed into a substitute for natural gas. Until now, electricity was generated from gas. Now, a German-Austrian cooperation wants to go in the opposite direction. In the future, these researchers ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 05, 2010 |
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Natural gas potential assessed in Eastern Mediterranean
An estimated 122 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas are in the Levant Basin Province, located in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Hydrokinetic proposal for Mississippi river
(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone is looking for alternative forms of energy, and one company proposes to generate electricity from the flow of the river Mississippi in the US, without using dams to control the water ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Researchers to test renewable-energy system at local treatment plant
A successful University of Nevada, Reno renewable energy research project is moving from the lab to the real world in a demonstration-scale system to turn wastewater sludge into electricity.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 18, 2010 |
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World first superconducting DC power transmission system a step closer
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers in Japan have succeeded for the first time in superconducting power transmission of direct current over two hundred meters.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 08, 2010 |
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'Distributed energy' has power to save billions
Wide-scale adoption of low-emission distributed energy could reduce the cost of transitioning to a low-carbon future by as much a $130 billion by 2050, according to a new report released today by CSIRO.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Waste could generate up to 7 percent of electricity in Spain
Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity ...
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Texas entrepreneur hopes to turn mesquite into power
Randy Hill lives amid the fossil fuels of America, a place where natural gas and crude oil made millionaires and the landscape is dotted with pump jacks. But Hill, who lives outside Abilene in West Texas, is spending much ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 05, 2010 |
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The 'Ene Pocket' toy car runs on sugar (w/ Video)
(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.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 29, 2010 |
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Power from down under
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 ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage
Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Energy efficiency technologies offer major savings
Energy efficiency technologies that exist today or that are likely to be developed in the near future could save considerable money as well as energy, says a new report from the National Research Council. Fully adopting ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide
Tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions will have major direct health benefits in addition to reducing the risk of climate change, especially in low-income countries, according to ...
Nov 25, 2009 |
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NREL Uncovers Clean Energy Leaders State by State
(PhysOrg.com) -- That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise. But, NREL's 2009 State of the States report shows that several smaller states ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Solar power generation around the clock
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Californian company, SolarReserve, is developing a solar power system that can store seven hours' worth of solar energy by focusing mirrors onto millions of gallons of molten salt, allowing ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 05, 2009 |
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