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International Geothermal Workshop Held in Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino Mountains

Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, convened the “International Geothermal Workshop” in Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains, Oct. 13-16, to discuss developing new ways to produce electrical energy from geothermal fields.

19 Oct 2013

CERN to Host the Thorium Energy Conference from 27 to 31 October, 2013

CERN is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste.

19 Oct 2013

Waste Management Celebrates Ground Breaking of Renewable Natural Gas Facility

Waste Management today announced it is building a facility that will create pipeline-ready natural gas from its Milam Landfill in Fairmont City, Ill. At a ceremony at the landfill, state, county and local officials joined the company to celebrate the groundbreaking.

19 Oct 2013

New Research Shows Human Evolution Driven by Rapid Environmental Change

Early human evolution was driven by short pulses of rapid environmental change in East Africa, according to new research from academics at UCL and The University of Manchester.

19 Oct 2013

Wood Coated With Tin Holds Promise for Environmentally Friendly Batteries

The latest episode in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series takes its inspiration from trees. It describes the development of a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly energy source.

18 Oct 2013

Doped Titanium Dioxide Photocatalyst Activated by Solar Light Can Cheaply Clean Polluted Water

A little amount of appropriately prepared powder is poured in water polluted with phenol and cellulose. A bit of the sun and after fifteen minutes harmful compounds disappear, and the powder can be filtered off and reused. Sounds like a fairy tale? Perhaps, but it is not magic, only a masterly use of chemistry and physics by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

18 Oct 2013

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Affect 98% of the Oceans by 2100

A new study looking at the impacts of climate change on the world’s ocean systems concludes that by the year 2100, about 98 percent of the oceans will be affected by acidification, warming temperatures, low oxygen, or lack of biological productivity – and most areas will be stricken by a multitude of these stressors.

18 Oct 2013

Gasoline Direct Injection Technology Close to Meeting Latest Emission Standards

An engine design appearing under the hoods of many new cars and light trucks today is close to meeting the latest pollution standards that will require vehicles to emit fewer harmful particles over their lifetimes, scientists are reporting. The new study on emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) technology appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

18 Oct 2013

Novel Process to Recycle Shoes

A newly developed recycling process could make landfill sites filled with old shoes a thing of the past.

18 Oct 2013

Leidos Reaches Agreement to Assume Ownership of 37.5 MW Biomass-Fueled Electric Generation Facility

Leidos Holdings Inc. (Leidos) has reached an agreement on the terms pursuant to which it will assume ownership of a 37.5 megawatt (net) biomass-fueled electric generation facility, being constructed in Plainfield, Conn., by Leidos Constructors.

17 Oct 2013

Broward County Adopts Property Assessed Clean Energy Program

The Broward County Commission unanimously voted to move forward with an innovative “open market” approach to financing for residential and commercial energy retrofits for its more than 1.8 million county residents.

17 Oct 2013

Architectural Grille and Solar Energy Systems Commence Construction of Roof-Mounted 312 kW Solar System

Architectural Grille and Solar Energy Systems, both of Brooklyn, NY, have kicked off the construction of a roof-mounted 312-kilowatt solar system. Designed to produce 365,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually, the solar array will offset a majority of the company's kWh consumption and reduce the factory's carbon footprint by 258 metric tons of CO2 annually, which is roughly equivalent to the emissions produced by burning 30,000 gallons of gas per year.

17 Oct 2013

Construction Begins on 100 MWac Grand Renewable Solar Project Utility-Scale Solar Farm in Haldimand County

Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar"), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that its subsidiary, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., has begun construction of the 100 MWac Grand Renewable Solar Project utility-scale solar farm.

From Canadian Solar 17 Oct 2013

Manmade Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trigger Ocean Biogeochemical Changes Affecting Marine Ecosystems

An ambitious new study that includes Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego describes the full chain of events by which ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by manmade greenhouse gas emissions may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the deep ocean and eventually influencing humans.

17 Oct 2013

Biofuels Produced from Genetically Modified Tobacco Plants

In her PhD thesis Ruth Sanz-Barrio, an agricultural engineer of the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (mixed centre of the CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, Public University of Navarre and the Government of Navarre), has demonstrated, for the first time, the viability of using specific tobacco proteins (known as thioredoxins) as biotechnological tools in plants.

16 Oct 2013