News tagged with gas generator

Key to low-cost solar power lies in super-efficient cells

Thinking big while focusing on small, a solar company and a national energy lab combined talents to develop a solar power concentrator that generates electricity at prices competitive with natural gas.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

OU researchers developing shale gas reservoir simulator

University of Oklahoma researchers are developing a new simulator for shale gas reservoirs that will provide oil and gas companies with an essential tool for managing production and choosing drilling locations to lower costs ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Americans using less energy, more renewables: report

Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers calculate the cost of CO2 emissions, call for carbon tax

Two Rice University researchers are calling on policymakers to encourage the transition from coal-based electricity production to a system based on natural gas through a carbon tax.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 20

MIT releases major report: The Future of Natural Gas

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Nile delta natural gas potential is significant

An estimated 223 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas are in the Nile Delta Basin Province, located in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3

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

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A blue gem for greener fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sapphire, a brilliant blue gemstone most familiar in jewelry, may soon play an important part in making coal a cleaner fuel source.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'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

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (39) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (14) | comments 8

New geothermal heat extraction process to deliver clean power generation (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources holds promise for generating virtually pollution-free electrical energy. Scientists at the Department ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 16


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