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• Vestas CEO Ditlev Engel Suggests EU 30% Renewable Energy Target for 2030

  

  Recently, Siemens AG suggested that the EU should build solar farms in sunny places. Now, Ditlev Engel, the CEO of Vestas Wind Systems A/S—a Danish manufacturer... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Method for Clean and Safe Hydrogen Production Proposed

  Duke University engineers have developed a new safer method for catalytic hydrogen production. According to the authors of the study, it does not require high... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Start-Up Will Be Converting Waste Heat Into Electricity Through Osmosis

  

  (Credit: OsmoBlue.com) Waste heat is necessarily produced both by machines that do work and in other processes that use energy, for example in maintaining the... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Interactive Portal for Home Lighting Design Launched

  

  The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched an interactive website to help homeowners, contractors and builders choose... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Offshore Drilling Helps Microbiologists Study Life on Earth and Beyond

  

  Crashing waves near oil rig somewhere in the North Sea. (Credit: Flickr @ Richard Child http://www.flickr.com/people/richardchild/) Offshore drilling is often... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• A Fleet of 100 Compressed Natural Gas Trucks Deployed by Halliburton

  

  Halliburton's Ford F-250 light-duty truck powered by compressed natural gas. Halliburton announced the deployment of nearly 100 light-duty bi-fuel Compressed... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Berkeley Lab Builds ‘Artificial Forest’ to Harvest Solar Energy

  

  Devices for artificial photosynthesis are often called “artificial leaves”. This leaves, however, are of no use unless you can create an “artificial forest” fro... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Siemens Suggests EU to Build Solar Plants in Sunny Places (and Save $58 Billion)

  

  Additions of solar photovoltaic generating capacity in 27 EU member states in 2012 (Credit: Siemens) A recent study of the electrical power producing systems... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Liquefied Natural Gas Export Facility Authorized by the U.S. Department of...

  

  Freeport LNG utilizes a closed-loop recirculation system with an air tower (named the “VE Tower” in honor of Volker Eyermann (1939-2005), Freeport LNG’s Vice... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Shale Gas Fracking Has No Impact on Groundwater in Arkansas, Study Concludes

  

  Fayetteville shale gas play. See detailed map here: http://www.geology.ar.gov/fossilfuel_maps/fayetteville_play.htm (Credit: Arkansas Geological Survey) A new... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Supercomputer Will Focus Solely on Energy Research

  

  BlueM’s predecessor, RA supercomputer at Colorado School of Mines has been ranked No. 134 in the 31st TOP500 Supercomputer List (Credit: Supercomputing... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Australian Scientists Are Printing Solar Cells Like T-Shirts

  

  Scientists have produced the largest flexible, plastic solar cells in Australia—10 times the size of what they were previously able to—thanks to a new solar cel... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Strategies for Breaking Even on Home Energy Consumption Suggested

  

  The Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility sits on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Trying to Photograph Photosynthesis

  

  Photosynthetic oxidation of water is one of the central processes of life on Earth, but it is still not completely understood. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Public-Private Partnership to Deploy Hydrogen Infrastructure in the U.S.

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ ideowl http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideowl/) This week, the Energy Department launched H2USA—a new public-private partnership focused on... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Project Will Forecast Solar Generation to Smooth Fluctuations

  

  The concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system in the field. (Credit: Cool Earth Inc.) The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $1. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Renault Becomes Formula E Technical Partner

  

  The new look of the Formula E racing car. (Credit: Official FIA Formula E Blog) Renault S.A., a French multinational vehicle manufacturer known for its role in... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Researchers Develop New Way to Produce Hydrogen From Water and Sunlight

  

  Using a combination of microanalytic techniques that at the same time image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Expedition Assessed Gas Hydrate Reserves in the Gulf of Mexico

  

  USGS technician Jenny White and Ray Sliter check instruments on the fantail of the research vessel Pelican during a cruise to explore gas hydrates in the... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• People ‘Concerned’ About Fracking, But Like the Money It Brings

  

  Anti-fracking activist on rally to ban fracking in Ohio (Credit: Flickr @ ProgressOhio http://www.flickr.com/photos/progressohio/) Most Michigan and Pennsylvani... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY