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Hydrogen-Powered Car to Compete in International Nürburgring Motorsport Event

The ability to offer a practical, affordable and clean, renewable energy through the use of hydrogen-fuelled cars is to set be demonstrated in Aston Martin’s Rapide S race car entry at the 41st ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring on May 19th-20th 2013. A prototype, twin-turbo, Aston Martin Rapide S will use Alset Global’s unique Hybrid Hydrogen system to run on pure gasoline or hydrogen or a blend of both.

12 Apr 2013

Factors Other than Global Warming Influence Shifting of Mountain Tree Lines

For years, many scientists believed that forest tree lines on mountains everywhere would shift to higher elevations as the planet's temperature increased due to global warming.

12 Apr 2013

Discovery Holds Potential to Reduce Costs of Converting Ethanol Factories to Production of Butanol

Scientists today reported a discovery that could speed an emerging effort to replace ethanol in gasoline with a substantially better fuel additive called butanol, which some experts regard as "the gasoline of the future."

12 Apr 2013

Talcott Realty Implements Lighting Retrofit with Daylight Harvesting Fluorescent Light Ballasts for Memphis Office

Green Ballast Inc. announced today that Talcott Realty, a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) with Class A properties across the United States, is implementing a lighting retrofit equipped with Green Ballast's patented daylight harvesting fluorescent light ballasts for the 420,000 square foot Thousand Oaks office park in Memphis, Tennessee, which is managed and leased by CB Richard Ellis Memphis.

12 Apr 2013

Ballard Announces Shipment of 500th Methanol-Fuelled Telecom Backup Power System

Ballard Power Systems today announced shipment of its 500th methanol-fuelled telecom backup power system, since the Company expanded its product line in August 2012. Ballard is strongly positioned as the leader in the fuel cell sector for telecom backup power systems, offering both ElectraGen™-ME liquid fuelled methanol systems as well as ElectraGen™-H2 gaseous hydrogen fuelled systems.

12 Apr 2013

Horse Feces Fungi Enzymes May Hold Key to Economical Production of Non-Food Plant Biofuels

Stepping into unexplored territory in efforts to use corn stalks, grass and other non-food plants to make biofuels, scientists today described the discovery of a potential treasure-trove of candidate enzymes in fungi thriving in the feces and intestinal tracts of horses.

12 Apr 2013

EVSI Announces Successful Installation of Second Solar Tree Array for U.S. DoE’s NREL

Envision Solar International (EVSI), a leading sustainable infrastructure product designer and developer, is pleased to announce the successful installation of a second Solar Tree® array for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at their Vehicle Testing and Integration Facility (VTIF).

12 Apr 2013

Concentrating Solar Power System Helps Reduce Greenhouse Emissions in Natural Gas Power Plants

Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The system converts natural gas and sunlight into a more energy-rich fuel called syngas, which power plants can burn to make electricity.

12 Apr 2013

Lifespan of Lithium Ion Batteries Exceed Average Life Expectancy of Electric Vehicles

Scientists today answered a question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the battery pack dies, leaving a sticker-shock bill for a fresh pack or a car ready for the junk heap? Their answer, presented here at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), being held here this week, may surprise skeptics.

12 Apr 2013

Era of Reduction in Greenhouse Gases Begins, Says Aalto University Professor

A clear change taking place in the energy consumption of Finnish households. According to Professor Raimo Lovio, Aalto University, there are many factors that point to a turn-around in the way that Finns consume energy.

11 Apr 2013

BioNitrogen Commences Woody Biomass Collection for Hardee County Plant

BioNitrogen Corporation, a cleantech company that utilizes proprietary technology to build environmentally-friendly plants that convert biomass into urea fertilizer, announced today that it has begun collection of woody biomass from phosphate mining and non-mining lands to use for urea fertilizer production.

11 Apr 2013

New Model Estimates Energy Consumption and Emissions for Residential Buildings

In Finland, everyday residential life accounts for more than 30 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions from private consumption. Within the Academy of Finland’s Research Programme on Climate Change (FICCA), a model has been developed that facilitates the computational estimation of the energy consumption and emissions for all residential buildings in any given area.

11 Apr 2013

PTG to Exhibit Innovative Wastewater Disinfection Process at CWEA Conference

Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG), innovator of the only wastewater disinfection process that creates renewable energy, is exhibiting its technology to water-quality and wastewater professionals attending this year's California Water Environment Association (CWEA) annual conference, held in Palm Springs.

11 Apr 2013

BIO Submits Comments to EPA on Proposed Renewable Fuel Standards

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) recently submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the proposed Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS).

11 Apr 2013