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More Efficient Biofuel Production with Bioengineering?
In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates.They contain more energy than ethanol and are also more compatible with existing gasoline-based infrastructure.For isobutanol to...
Is Thorium the Biggest Energy Breakthrough Since Fire? Possibly....
For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the Norse god of thunder, Thor. It seems he is not the only person who...
"You cannot have food, water, or energy security without climate security. They are interconnected..."
“You cannot have food, water, or energy security without climate security. They are interconnected and inseparable. They form four resource pillars on which global security, prosperity and equity stand. Each depends on the others. Plentiful,...
L Prize offers $10 million in light-bulb innovation competition
The L Prize competition —sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy — will substantially accelerate America’s shift from inefficient, dated lighting products to innovative, high-performance products. Just as Thomas Edison transformed illumination...
San Jose to Add 75K Homes to Smart Grid
San Jose to Add 75K Homes to Smart Grid, New IBM Software to Facilitate Growth | GreenBiz.com In addition to San Jose’s plan, IBM today released its Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE), a software platform aimed at...
North Carolina Pilot Project Proves that Smart Meters Cut Back on Electricity Use
North Carolina Pilot Project Proves that Smart Meters Cut Back on Electricity Use | Sustainability | Fast Company Wirelessly-connected smart grids are often heralded as the solution to our electricity-devouring ways, and now an IBM pilot project in...
IBM Unveils Framework for Smart Grid Technologies
IBM Unveils Framework for Smart Grid Technologies | eWeek IBM’s SAFE platform is designed to give utilities a simple way to bring energy-efficient technologies to their operations, while giving software makers a vehicle for getting their...
8 Emerging CleanTech Investment Areas
A new report is claiming that, with an aggressive infrastructure investment, eight emerging technologies could meet 60 % of new energy demand by 2020. It is also claiming that we could abate more CO2 than is necessary for climate...
Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid : NPR The U.S. Electric Grid
Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid : NPR The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines. Aging infrastructure, combined with a rise in domestic electricity consumption, has...
"Coal-dependent China will unveil a plan to foster the development of “new energy”
“Coal-dependent China will unveil a plan to foster the development of “new energy” sources, including wind, solar and nuclear, by the end of this year, state media on Monday quoted a senior energy policy official as saying.” China to unveil plan...
How Electric Utility Companies Are Adapting To Climate Change
The IBM Electric Utilities team is having a web-launch of an IBM sponsored report that reveals how electric utility companies around the world are adapting to climate change, based on their responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project 2008...
This narrated video shows CO2 emissions on Google Earth. This...
This narrated video shows CO2 emissions on Google Earth. This emissions data product along with the Google Earth representation can be found at www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan It represents all fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the United States....
