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Glass With Extraordinary Electrical Properties Could Hold Charge to Power Electric Vehicles

Penn State materials researchers have reported the largest known energy storage capacity for a bulk glass, making it a potential new candidate for capacitors for electric vehicles and portable power applications

4 May 2009

Recharging Electric Vehicles Simplified With Smart Charger Controller

PNNL's Smart Charger Controller simplifies electric vehicle recharging, protects the grid and saves consumers money; device automatically activates the vehicle's battery to recharge at times of least stress on the grid

4 May 2009

Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found in Smoke From Forest Fires

Researchers have detected common plant toxins that affect human health and ecosystems in smoke from forest fires. The results from the new study also suggest that smoldering fires may produce more toxins than wildfires - a reason to keep human exposures to a minimum during controlled burns

4 May 2009

Building Integrated Photovoltaic Solar Power Coming From Technal

Hydro's Technal brand is bringing new product concepts to the Spanish building systems market, and moving forward in the development of building-integrated photovoltaic solutions that can conserve energy and also produce energy

3 May 2009

Energy Frontier Research Center For Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced earlier this week by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama

30 Apr 2009

Cleantech Guru to Speak on the Third Industrial Revolution

President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeremy Rifkin, will be a keynote speaker at the CleanTech Innovation Marketplace conference, at HiT Barcelona

30 Apr 2009

Arizona State University to Get New Energy Frontier Research Center

Arizona State University will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama

30 Apr 2009

Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation To Establish An Engineering Center in North Carolina

Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation, a U.S.-based Toshiba Group company, will establish an engineering center in Charlotte, North Carolina

29 Apr 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Speak at Solar Energy Summit

In partnership with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, SolarTech, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Solar Energy Industries Association announce the participation of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as an honorary guest speaker at their inaugural Summit

29 Apr 2009

Biofuel Development To Benefit From Lignocellulose Development Grant

Cutting edge approaches and methodology employed by plant and molecular biologists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, computational modelers and engineers will be applied to plant cells in the newly funded Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center at Penn State

29 Apr 2009