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Solar Impulse pilot André Borschberg completed a record-setting flight in the wee hours this morning after flying more than 950 miles on solar power alone, even if he was, strictly speaking, going backward for part of the trip.

A series of hydroelectric dams on the river, to be constructed from 2015, could generate twice as much energy as China's record-breaking Three Gorges dam        

(Phys.org) —Ground-breaking Australian research on the viability of aviation biofuels has today been released, at the culmination of almost three years of work by The University of Queensland, James Cook University, The Boeing Company, Virgin Australia, Mackay Sugar and IOR Energy.

(AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic ... His administration has championed a $1 billion-a-year tax break to the industry that has nearly doubled the amount of wind power in his first term

As debate looms on legislation that could lead to Nebraska getting a $300 million wind farm, Republican Gov. Dave Heineman reiterated his opposition Monday to the tax breaks that could pave the way for the project.

The mystery behind a fallen turbine blade at the Ocotillo Wind power plant east of San Diego has led the manufacturer to curtail operations at select wind farms around the world. Siemens, a global leader in wind-turbine manufacturing, confirmed Monday that it has convened a team of experts at a wind farm outside the desert town of Ocotillo, where a 170-foot blade broke loose and fell to the ground

A 173-foot-long blade broke off a wind turbine and fell to the ground at a 315-megawatt wind farm that supplies electricity to San Diego, it was reported Saturday.

A 173-foot-long blade broke off a wind turbine and fell to the ground at a 315-megawatt wind farm that supplies electricity near El Centro, it was reported today.

RIVERSIDE — A 173-foot-long blade broke off a wind turbine and fell to the ground at a 315-megawatt wind farm that supplies electricity near El Centro, it was reported Saturday. The blade was found near its base Thursday under one of the 112 wind- ...

DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- An effort to maintain a tax break for ethanol blended fuel has won state Senate approval. The Iowa Senate on Thursday backed a bill that would extend a tax break for fuel that includes ethanol and gasoline for another year.

A massive blade broke from a Siemens wind turbine this week – and it's not the first time this has happened. The latest incident, which took place at Pattern Energy's Ocotillo wind power plant in Imperial County, Calif., and caused no injuries, has led Siemens ...

The fuel tax proposal is attached to a bill that would extend tax breaks for ethanol blended fuels. That bill won approval in the Senate Thursday and now heads to the House. Currently, ethanol blends are taxed at 20 cents a gallon and pure petroleum is taxed ...

An effort to maintain a tax break for ethanol blended fuel has won state Senate approval.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An effort to maintain a tax break for ethanol blended fuel has won state Senate approval. The Iowa Senate on Thursday backed a bill that would extend a tax break for fuel that includes ethanol and gasoline for another year.