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Stimulus Funds To Help Modernize the National Power Grid

Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina were informed this week that they will receive federal economic stimulus funds via the National Science Foundation to continue and strengthen their efforts to modernize the national power grid

30 Jul 2009

Segway Inventor Takes His Private Island Off The Grid

Segway inventor Dean Kamen has resolved to live only on the energy he can produce with the island's renewables - a wind turbine, solar panels, and his own redesign of the Stirling engine. The key to using energy within his means is cutting energy consumption

30 Jul 2009

Battery and Supercapacitor Market for Smart Grids Set to Boom

The market for battery and supercapacitor storage systems for Smart Grid applications will grow from $1.5 billion in 2012 to $8.3 billion in 2016, according to a new report from NanoMarkets

30 Jul 2009

Revolutionary Prototype Wind Turbine Based On Work of Nicola Tesla Unveiled

Solar Aero Research, a New Hampshire non-profit alternative energy research corporation, today unveiled the proof-of-concept prototype of its revolutionary wind turbine

29 Jul 2009

Energy Challenge Prize Announced by Premier of NSW, Australia

A new $5 million international prize has been announced to keep the State of NSW at the forefront of clean energy

29 Jul 2009

Microbial Fuel Cell Research Increases Power Output of Fuel Cells

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, scientists supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power

29 Jul 2009

Cheaper and Better Flexible Solar Cells A Step Closer to Reality

A new class of economically viable solar power cells-cheap, flexible and easy to make-has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at NIST, where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices

28 Jul 2009