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Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice Sheets May be Substantially Larger than Estimated

Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, according to new research from the University of Bristol.

7 Jan 2013

Japan Survives Summer without Nuclear Power

In the 18 months since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following an earthquake and tsunami, as Japan's other nuclear reactors shut for routine maintenance, popular opposition kept them from restarting. The country entered the summer of 2012 with all its nuclear generators shuttered. With a fourth of its pre-Fukushima power supply gone, blackouts were expected, especially in the country's western region.

7 Jan 2013

New Concept for Quantifying Stability Can Help Assess Climatic Tipping Elements

As they typically result from severe external perturbations, it is of vital interest how stable the most desirable state is. Surprisingly, this basic question has so far received little attention. Now scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), in a paper published in Nature Physics, propose a new concept for quantifying stability.

7 Jan 2013

EU Can Save €10,000 Million per Year by Cleaning up Mercury Pollution

Cleaning up mercury pollution and reducing prenatal exposure to the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) could save the European Union €10,000 million per year, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health. New estimates suggest that between 1.5 and 2 million children in the EU are born each year with MeHg exposures above the safe limit of 0.58µg/g and 200,000 above the WHO recommended maximum of 2.5µg/g.

7 Jan 2013

Superconducting Generator May Improve Efficiency of Wind Power Plants

An efficient, robust, and compact wind power plant with a 10 MW superconducting generator is being developed by partners from industry and science within the recently established EU project SUPRAPOWER. Superconduction enables considerable savings of energy and raw materials. Within SUPRAPOWER, researchers at KIT’s Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) develop a rotating cryostat cooling the superconducting coils down to minus 253°C - a temperature crucial for electric current flow without resistance.

4 Jan 2013

Klean Industries to Collaborate with Dow to Provide Solutions for End-of-Life Mixed Plastics

Klean Industries Inc. ("Klean") a Canadian Energy Solutions Company announces its intent to collaborate with The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") to recover energy, chemicals and oil from end-of-life waste plastics that would otherwise be sent to landfill.

4 Jan 2013

The Children's Center Supports Sustainability by Going Green for 2013 AutoGlow

The Children's Center supports sustainability by going green for the 2013 AutoGlow, Vive Detroit.

4 Jan 2013

Berkeley Lab Researchers Find New Way to Explore Permafrost Soils

What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It’s part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world’s soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere.

4 Jan 2013

Penn State Researchers Look for Ways to Prolong Battery Life for Locomotive

Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the United States.

4 Jan 2013

Covanta Energy's Clean World Initiative Enters Fifth Year

Covanta Energy Corporation, a world leader in sustainable waste management and renewable energy, is proud to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Clean World Initiative (CWI).

4 Jan 2013

Ameresco Executes Energy Performance Contract with Fall River Housing Authority

Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced today the execution of an energy performance contract with the Fall River Housing Authority (FRHA).

4 Jan 2013

SunPower’s 579 MW Antelope Valley Solar Projects Acquired by MidAmerican Solar

Today, MidAmerican Solar, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Renewables, and SunPower Corp. announced MidAmerican Solar's acquisition from SunPower of the 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP), two co-located projects in Kern and Los Angeles Counties in Calif. Together, the two combined projects will form the largest permitted solar photovoltaic power development in the world and will create an estimated 650 jobs during construction.

3 Jan 2013

Algal Fuel Producers Now Eligible for Tax Credit

As part of the bi-partisan "Fiscal Cliff" legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on January 1, 2013, algae-derived fuels are, for the first time ever, a "qualified feedstock" under section 40 of the United States Code meaning that producers of algal fuel are eligible for a $1.01 per gallon tax credit.

3 Jan 2013

Arista Power, GCEDC Partner to Launch New Community Solar Purchasing Initiative

Arista Power, Inc. ("Arista Power" or the "Company"), a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of custom-designed power management systems, renewable energy storage systems, and a supplier and designer of solar energy systems, announced today that the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC) has partnered with Arista Power to launch a new community solar purchasing initiative, called "Solarize Genesee."

3 Jan 2013

Study Determines Natural Equilibrium Sea Level for CO2 Concentrations

By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels.

3 Jan 2013