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The Motor Industry Association of Zimbabwe has added its voice to growing calls for the re-introduction of ethanol blending. The call was made at the recent MIAZ annual congress. It comes hot on the heels of a similar statement by Confederation of ...

The Bristol ferry, the Hydrogenesis, will be powered entirely by hydrogen fuel cells and will produce no harmful emissions. The local government in Britsol is reported to have backed the development of the fuel cell with with funds totaling £225000 ...

Alta Rock Energy is testing the process that creates geothermal energy by sending water thousands of feet below the surface; heating it up and sending it back up. Michael Moore is the project manager and he talked with our News partner, News Channel 21 ...

To boost solar power, California in the mid-1990s offered a deal: Customers could sell back surplus electricity to local utilities. This meant an electric meter could spin both ways. On sunny days, a solar panel owner could pile up credit as the juice ...

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland have made substantial progress toward harnessing the energy of the Sun from space. This solar power from space has the potential to change the future of renewable energy. Equipment has been tested in space that would provide a platform for solar panels to collect energy and allow it to be transferred back to earth through

Contact: MLucas@afphq.org Monte Shaw in his recent comments (“Ethanol Backers Push Back Against Anti-Renewables PAC,” May 9) claims a desire to “get the facts straight when it comes to ethanol and oil policy.” Unfortunately, instead of actually ...

By Danny King RSS feed This time, a group called the Coordinating Research Council released a study saying that the US Environmental Protection Agency's decision to push for allowing gas with a 15-percent ethanol blend (aka E15) to be sold to the ...

In the study, the latest in a line looking into the effects of raising ethanol content from E10 to E15, the CRC claimed that over two years of testing E15 in vehicles made between 2001-2009, two of the eight vehicles tested suffered significant wear.

It looks like an alien invasion, with flying saucers coming from the sky. But it's actually the brainchild of Mark Hull, who is project manager for Beebe Community Wind Farm of Ithaca. He took the wind turbine idea to local farmers back in 2007.

The six-kilowatt turbines were put on top of Huddersfield's Civic Centre to raise awareness of renewable energy, and to raise money for Kirklees Council by selling the energy back to the grid. But the council said they were to be taken down after "poor ...

Seattle based AltaRock Energy is in the process of testing a new technology that creates geothermal energy by sending water thousands of feet below the surface, heating it up and then sending back up. "To have it be something like this, where it's sort ...

Sloop, who describes himself as laid back, built a prototype wind turbine at his house and the wind tunnel to test it. Wang, who describes herself as outgoing and quirky, studied a compound that might be useful in combating cancer stem cells.

The corn won't be for human consumption, but rather the crop will be sold to produce biofuel and will aid in the removal of toxins from post-industrial soil, including lead and copper. “It's an amazing thing for the students to give back to the ...

SOLAR: MP Diana Johnson claims cuts to the solar feed-in tariff threaten jobs and the renewables industry in Hull. The Labour MP made the claim as Energy Secretary Ed Davey hinted that the Government may put back the next planned cuts to solar ...