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| Company Claims Potential Magnification In Bio Fuel Production |  |
| duanes1967 writes "A company called Joule Biotech claims to have a breakthrough in biofuel production. Their process can create 20,000 gallons of fuel per acre per year at a cost of about $50 per barrel. `Algae-based biofuels come closest to Joule`s technology, with potential yields of 2,000 to 6,000 gallons per acre; yet even so, the new process would represent an order of magnitude improvement. What`s more, for the best current algae fuels technologies to be competitive with fossil fuels, crude oil would have to cost over $800 a barrel says Philip Pienkos, a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. Joule claims that its process will be competitive with crude oil at $50 a barrel. In recent weeks, oil has sold for $60 to $70 a barrel.`"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Cheaper Solar Thermal Power | |
| A simpler design could reduce the cost of solar power generated by concentrating sunlight on Stirling engines.
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| PG&E agrees to buy 48 MW of solar power | |
| This is PG&E`s second contract with Sempra and will provide the utility with a total of 58 MW generated by Sempra solar projects. |
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| Michigan Dems want to expand renewable energy law | |
| Democrats who control the Michigan House want more electricity to come from renewable sources. |
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| Nevada getting more than $13M for energy projects | |
| The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that Nevada is getting more than $13.8 million in stimulus funds to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the state. |
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| Obama`s stimulus killers | |
| Barack Obama promised universal health care and a mass conversion to green energy when he launched his presidential campaign. On that frigid February day in 2007, the economy was growing at a 2.8% clip. Obama stuck to the same promises a year later when he won Iowa, as the housing market was slumping into recession. And energy and health care were the twin pillars of his acceptance speech in Denver, 18 days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. |
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| Green Energy Could Mean Higher Bills | |
| This year only one percent of Austin Energy`s wind power program, Green Choice, has sold. |
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| Mines Could Provide Geothermal Energy | |
| This is the conclusion of two engineers from the University of Oviedo, whose research is being published in the journal Renewable Energy . |
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| Video: GreenWing & SolFocus To Deploy Utility Scale CPV Projects | |
| GreenWing Energy Management Ltd. has signed an agreement with SolFocus Inc. for SolFocus to supply high concentration photovoltaic (CPV) systems for GreenWing`s large-scale solar power projects in the western United States. GreenWing plans to install the SolFocus CPV systems in both new utility-scale projects (20-300 megawatts) and larger distributed generation applications (1-20 megawatts). |
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| PG&E To Add 48-MW of Solar Thin-film to Mix | |
| Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has entered into a contract with El Dorado Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Sempra Generation, to purchase 48 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic solar power produced at the Copper Mountain Solar facility. This is the utility`s second contract for renewable energy from Sempra Generation and it is subject to approval by the California Public Utilities Commission. |
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| Sun Day Releases Directory of US University Renewable Energy Programs | |
| The Sun Day Campaign has released its "National Directory of University Sustainable Energy Programs." The directory provides a zip-coded listing of more than 185 U.S. university and college degree and non-degree educational and/or research programs and more than 200 affiliated educators or researchers at those institutions. |
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| Britain`s Old Industries See Renewable Boost | |
| Across the UK traditional industries are turning their hand to renewable energy, seeing the potential the booming sector offers for the future. |
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| Solar Power International 2009 Announces Keynote Speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Annual CEO Panelists | |
| ANAHEIM, Calif., July 16, 2009 – Solar Power International 2009, the largest business‐to‐business solar conference and expo in North America, today announced that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will deliver a keynote speech on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 8:00 a.m. PT. The conference also announced the line‐up for its annual CEO Panel, in which top solar and electric power decision‐makers will explore issues of vital importance to the solar industry. |
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