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Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Climate Change and Forecasting Global Warming

Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming activity

7 Aug 2008

MIT Named One of the Top 25 Environmentally Responsible Schools in the Kaplan College Guide 2009

MIT has been named one of the top 25 environmentally responsible schools in the Kaplan College Guide 2009

7 Aug 2008

Nansulate Thermal Insulation Incorporated into Display Home

Industrial Nanotech, an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced that the Company's patented Nansulate PT thermal insulation and corrosion resistance coating has been incorporated into the first display home of a LandCorp alternative housing project in Seville Grove, Western Australia

7 Aug 2008

Acid Rain Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Paddies

Acid rain from atmospheric pollution can reduce methane emissions from rice paddies by up to 24 per cent according to research led by Dr Vincent Gauci of The Open University

6 Aug 2008

Cleaner and Greener Chemicals to be Developed by New Partnership

A new research initiative, bringing together the UK's main public funder of bioscience research with 10 companies, has been launched today to accelerate development of technologies required for the sustainable production of chemicals through biorefining

6 Aug 2008

Aphids Emerging as Sentinels of Climate Change

Aphids are emerging as sentinels of climate change, researchers at BBSRC-supported Rothamsted Research have shown

6 Aug 2008

Norway is Looking to Use Unprofitable Paper Pulp Trees to Produce Fuel for Vehicles

While the norwegian company "Norske Skog" is struggling with unprofitable paper production and trees are rotting from the roots up, the world is researching alternatives to petrol. Scientists believe we should put wood chips in the tank

6 Aug 2008

Honeycomb Material Structure Key to New Generation of Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are one of the most touted new energy technologies. New materials developments are about to make fuel cells even better

6 Aug 2008

Guide Released by World Bank and UN to Show City Planners The Climate Change Vulnerability of Their City

Practical help is at hand for city planners and administrators around the world who are attempting to come to terms with the increased risks that many major urban centers now face as a result of climate change

6 Aug 2008

American Superconductor Licenses Wind Turbine Technology to Model Enerji in Turkey

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, announced today that it has licensed its proprietary WT1650 wind turbine design to Model Enerji Ltd., Turkey

6 Aug 2008

Chicken Manure Biogas to Power Jenbacher Gas Engines for Electricity and Heat

GE Energy's ecomagination certified Jenbacher gas engines will use biogas created from chicken manure to generate needed power and heat at a large chicken farm north of the China's capital city of Beijing

5 Aug 2008

Fuel Efficient Boeing 757 Jet Added to FedEx Aircraft Fleet

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest express transportation company, has launched its inaugural revenue flight using a Boeing 757 freighter

5 Aug 2008

Hydrogen Fuel Production and Power Plant Proposed for California

Hydrogen Energy International LLC, a joint venture of BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto, today announced plans to file an AFC (Application for Certification) before the California Energy Commission on Thursday, July 31, 2008, for a proposed hydrogen fuel production facility and power plant in Kern County, California. The filing initiates a comprehensive regulatory review process and, upon approval, grants permission for the construction of the nation’s first industrial-scale low-carbon power plant with carbon capture and sequestration

5 Aug 2008

Pentadyne Power Corporation Has Eclipsed Active Power as Number One Flywheel Energy Storage Systems Producer

Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of flywheel clean energy storage systems, has eclipsed Active Power as the world’s number one producer of flywheel energy storage systems

5 Aug 2008

Air Products Signs Contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company of China

Air Products has signed a long-term contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shaan’xi Weihe Coal Chemical Group Ltd, one of China’s largest coal-based fertilizer and methanol producers, to supply onsite gaseous oxygen and nitrogen for its phase three coal-to-chemicals project

5 Aug 2008