News tagged with energy crisis

Obama calls for Congress to enact 'green' tax credits

President Barack Obama urged Congress on Thursday to extend tax credits for clean energy companies the White House says are responsible for some 37,000 jobs.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Algae biofuels: the wave of the future

Researchers at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have assembled the draft genome of a marine algae sequence to aid scientists across the US in a project that aims to discover the best algae species for producing ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Energy-starved Pakistan eyes solar power

From mosques, to homes and streets, Pakistanis are increasingly seeing the light and realising that year-round sun may be a cheap if partial answer to an enormous energy crisis.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Calif. settlement will fund car charging network

(AP) -- An energy company accused of artificially inflating the cost of electricity, leading to California's power crisis a decade ago, agreed to pay a $120 million settlement that will fund 10,000 electric car charging ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Clouds gather over Spain's renewables sector as aid cut

Spain's push to become a world leader in renewable energy risks collapsing after the government slammed the brakes on generous subsidies as part of an austerity drive.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tough economy curbs clean energy investment: experts

A global economic slowdown and the eurozone debt crisis have curbed government investment in renewable energy, experts warned Tuesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

New material for thermonuclear fusion reactors

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Oxford University and the University of Michigan have joined efforts to develop new materials for thermonuclear fusion reactors. Their research focuses on characterization ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 38

Cuba to use sugar cane in new electricity plant

Cuba will open its first electricity plant using sugar cane as a biofuel hoping eventually to meet 30 percent of its energy needs from the fuel source, the official Granma daily said Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Industrial 'inertia to change' is delaying development of zero carbon homes, report finds

Tackling rising CO2 emissions from the residential sector could make a vital contribution towards mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the UCL Bartlett School of Planning.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Panasonic to build Malaysian solar cell plant

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Friday it would build a new solar cell factory in Malaysia, as it looks abroad to cut production costs caused by the surging yen.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alternative LED lighting combats energy crisis

Alternative lighting is emerging as a potent method to combat the energy crisis. Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies could provide an innovative way to save energy and make wasteful lighting obsolete.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Japan plans floating wind farm near nuclear plant

Japan plans to build a floating wind farm near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as part of the country's disaster reconstruction effort, a government official said Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Japan vows to continue nuclear plant exports

Japan said Friday it will continue exporting atomic power plants, despite uncertainty over its own use of them as it continues to grapple with a crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Japan's Mitsui in quake-zone solar plan: report

Japanese trading house Mitsui plans to build large-scale solar power plants with the capacity to supply 30,000 households in the tsunami-hit northeast, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Japan doubles plant radiation leak estimate

Japan has more than doubled its initial estimate of radiation released from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after the March 11 tsunami, ahead of the launch of an official probe Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1