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Advocates press Congress on renewable energy standard

Renewable energy advocates are pushing Congress to include a renewable electricity standard in a climate bill that was proposed Tuesday in the Senate, and the idea got a boost this week when 27 Democrats and a Republican ...

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US, European nuclear and coal-fired electrical plants vulnerable to climate change: study

Warmer water and reduced river flows in the United States and Europe in recent years have led to reduced production, or temporary shutdown, of several thermoelectric power plants. For instance, the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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NREL simulates shade conditions in repeatable test for solar arrays

The DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a new repeatable test protocol that simulates real shade conditions and can predict with much greater precision the effects of shade on a solar array.

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London faces up to 'greenest' Games pledge

London has pledged to host the greenest Olympic Games ever staged, but it could take years before the promises start to flower.

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Americans support national clean-energy standard: study

The average U.S. citizen is willing to pay 13 percent more for electricity in support of a national clean-energy standard (NCES), according to Yale and Harvard researchers in Nature Climate Change.

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created May 13, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

The quick and easy way to measure power consumption

The ambitious goals set by the German government to promote energy efficiency have put pressure on companies to change their energy-use policies. But the sustainable management of energy resources and the associated energy-saving ...

Technology / Engineering

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NRL charges Marine Corps expeditionary power requirements

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Electronic Science and Technology Division are working to help the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) reduce expeditionary energy supply needs and risks and increase ...

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Study: Location key to green benefits of electric vehicles

Apparently, location, location, location is the latest twist on electric vehicles and the environment: Whether an electric car such as the Nissan Leaf protects the atmosphere from greenhouse gases depends on where it's charged, ...

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

Policies, learning-by-doing played important role in reducing ethanol costs

A new study from the University of Illinois concludes that learning-by-doing, stimulated by increased ethanol production, played an important role in inducing technological progress in the corn ethanol industry. ...

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Technology transforms energy outlook

The U.S. energy picture has changed significantly in recent years, with vast, new natural gas supplies coming to market, revived solar and wind power industries, and new extraction techniques opening supplies ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Advanced power-grid research finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West

The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy ...

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