Feed The Grid

The government's decision to direct resources to nuclear and wind is typical of an institution befuddled and beset by lobbyistsAnyone who claims to understand energy policy is either mad or subsidised. Last week I wrote that politics is seldom rational. It is more often based on intuition and tribal prejudice

Plans to create the world's first carbon-neutral higher-speed locomotive were announced today by the Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR), a collaboration of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) and the nonprofit Sustainable Rail International (SRI). CSR draws on the carbon-neutral solid biofuel research expertise of the University of Minnesota and the modern steam

Ascent Solar, which makes flexible, thin-film photovoltaic modules, said the deal comes between the firm and Shenzhen Radiant Enterprise Co., Ltd. (Radiant) and Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation (TSDI) of China.

Commission theIEA, in cooperation with International Renewable Energy Agency and other international institutions, to synthesize recent analyses of renewable energy development and deployment policies in G-8 countries, including: Experience with, ...

Jerry Paulson, director of the Rockford-based Natural Land Institute, spoke on behalf of Greg Wahl, who owns 143 acres in the area of the planned wind farm. Twenty-two of the acres are what Wahl calls undisturbed prairie. Paulson's testimony was during ...

WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- The use of a gasoline-ethanol mix in passenger vehicles could cause damage to engines, an energy trade group said from Washington. American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said testing by the Coordinating Research ...

The American Petroleum Institute contends that studies show gasoline with 15 percent ethanol could harm vehicle engines.

They constructed a plant to manufacture fuel pellets from solid waste that would be burned by a biodiesel plant in Marcus, a new furnace system at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute and other customers. In what can only be described as one of the ...

American Petroleum Institute president and CEO Jack Gerard contended Wednesday that studies by the Coordinating Research Council showed that gasoline with 15 percent ethanol could harm vehicle engines. Gerard criticized the decision last year by the US ...

“Our findings represent an important first step in understanding the mechanisms of ionic liquid resistance in bacteria and provide a basis for engineering ionic liquid tolerance into strains of fuel-producing microbes for a more efficient biofuel ...

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published their first archival paper based on data from the institute’s new hydrogen test facility. The paper examines the embrittling effect of pressurized hydrogen gas on three different types of pipeline steel, an important factor for the design of future hydrogen transportation and delivery systems

That peak oil demand may come this decade, ie that demand for oil could start to fall before its supply? Lovins knows what he's talking about. He has a long history of being ahead of the curve on energy. The Rocky Mountain Institute makes its living ...

(Phys.org) -- Using new experimental methods and computational analysis, a team of scientists from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Livermore's Michael Thelen, discovered how certain bacteria can tolerate manmade toxic chemicals used in making biofuels.

This is evident from the fact that a significant number from the first batch has already been contributing to the global renewable energy and advanced technology industries for over a year now. Dr Fred Moavenzadeh, President of Masdar Institute, ...