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"Imagine opening a hatch in a submarine under water. The water will flow into the submarine with enormous force. It is precisely this energy potential we want to utilize." This is how German engineer Rainer Schramm describes his idea for storing energy under the sea. By using surplus energy to pump water out of a tank at the seabed, the water is simply let back in again when there's an energy

A number of projects have been proposed for the task force, such as the establishment of a public-private dialogue on removing barriers to investment in alternative energy projects. The group will also promote the dissemination of information that could ...

On Wednesday, Elon Musk's solar-power vehicle SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY ) announced that in addition to solar projects under way at the Army's Fort Bliss, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Peterson and Schriever Air Force Bases in Colorado, White Sands ...

PIERRE — For the first time in South Dakota, a small wind farm has succeeded in using a federal law to force a utility company to agree to buy electricity from the wind farm's turbines. By: Bob Mercer, Forum News Service. PIERRE — For the first time in South ...

The Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force — recently announced the geothermal portion of the contact. The next rounds will focus on solar, wind and biomass energy projects and will be finalized throughout ...

Although miners are far more technologically conservative than oil producers, today's tough financing environment may prompt technological advancements in a sector that has historically approached processing "with brute force rather than finesse."

The Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force — announced the geothermal portion of the contact in a May 3 news release. The next rounds will focus on solar, wind and biomass energy projects and will be ...

Now here's an odd pairing for you: none other than the Coca-Cola company is a strategic partner behind a Wisconsin biofuel company called Virent, which has just announced that the Air Force will be testing one of the first batches of jet biofuel from its newly ...

Belford residents are being urged to turn out in force at public exhibitions organised by the developers of a proposed wind farm.

According to the abstract* posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "A wind power generation device has a nacelle that is rotated in the yaw direction using a force operating on wind turbine blades and is provided with a yaw brake device that ...

A military unit created to protect the Brazilian Amazon from illegal logging appears instead to be providing security for construction of a new hydroelectric project - which locals and indigenous groups are opposing. Directly after passing its overhaul of the ...

Concerned villagers turned out in force to a public debate to oppose a controversial wind turbine proposal last night.

On Oct. 17, 2012, Ed Cherien from Iberdrola did a presentation at the Grafton Firehouse in which he stated that his company would not force itself on any town that didn’t want a wind turbine project.

We've been noticing for the past few years now that the Army, Navy, and Air Force have been in hot competition to see which branch of the armed services can install the most renewable energy, with the Coast Guard and Marine Corps also involved. Well ...