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Finalists Selected and Voting Is Open For America's Greenest School

America votes online for the nation's top singers and celebrity dancers, but now they can vote online to decide which school deserves the title of America's Greenest School

11 May 2009

Special Blanket to Generate Energy While Protecting Astronauts From Space Radiation

A group of students at North Carolina State University has developed a "blanket" of sorts that covers lunar outposts - the astronauts' living quarters - to provide astronauts protection against radiation while also generating and storing power

11 May 2009

Solar and Nuclear Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Gets A Boost

Solar and nuclear energy technology advancements from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) could help the nation in its quest to capture viable sources of alternative energy, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science

11 May 2009

New Understanding of Photosynthesis Energy Conversion

A new study has come up with a surprising twist to photosynthesis by swapping a key metal necessary for turning sunlight into chemical energy

11 May 2009

Energy Conversion Devices and Enfinity to Co-Develop of Solar Projects Across the US and Europe

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc and Enfinity, NV today announced plans to co-develop a portfolio of rooftop solar installations throughout the U.S., as well as in numerous European countries, including Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic

11 May 2009

Caltech To Get Energy Frontier Research Center

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced that it will fund the creation of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years, including one that will be housed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

11 May 2009

Call For American Schools to Get Green Renovation

Going green with new construction is a good idea, but what about renovating existing structures? Like, say, the 20 billion square feet of existing U.S. public schools, 40 percent of which have 15 million students in poor environmental conditions?

11 May 2009

ASME Pushes Government for Action on a National Energy Policy

Twenty-one engineering societies, representing over one million engineers, have endorsed the “National Energy Policy Goals Proclamation” of ASME and IEEE-USA, which emphasizes research and development in new technologies as part of a comprehensive strategy to protect U.S. economic and national security

11 May 2009

Turning Biomass Into Electricity More Efficient Than Using Ethanol for Vehicles

A new study suggests that biomass used to generate electricity could be more efficient than converting the biomass to ethanol for internal combustion engines

10 May 2009

Major Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Breakthrough from Mascoma

Mascoma Corporation today announced that the company has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, a low-cost processing strategy for production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass. CBP avoids the need for the costly production of cellulase enzymes by using engineered microorganisms that produce cellulases and ethanol at high yield in a single step

10 May 2009