http://hsdailywire.com Homeland Security News and Information 2008 HS Daily Wire en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://hsdailywire.com http://hsdailywire.com/ads/WEBLOGO.jpg 144 12 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4819&source=rss Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Scottish company Pelamis has been operating the world's first commercial wave energy farm, located off the coast line of Portugal, for a year now http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4819&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4984&source=rss Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 An endurance car race in Africa in January will pit different alternative energy technologies against each other http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4984&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4986&source=rss Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel creates more fuel for nuclear plants, and reduces the need for nuclear waste storage; trouble is, reprocessing also creates weapons-grade plutonium; Bush administration believes there is a new, safer reprocessing method, but a panel of scientists says there is not, and until there is, the U.S. should continue to oppose reprocessing http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4986&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4988&source=rss Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Worldwide demand for coal will rise by about 60 percent through 2030 -- to 6.9 billion tons a year; China's voracious appetite is the main culprit; environmental, health costs in China -- and around the world -- mount http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4988&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4989&source=rss Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 In addition to electronic computers and (theoretical) optical computers, we now have heat-based computers; such computers are based on logic gates in which inputs and outputs are represented by different temperatures; in run-of-the-mill electronic computers, inputs and outputs are represented by different voltages http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=4989&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5008&source=rss Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Several PE firms allocate investments in India's clean technology sector from their general funds, but others create India-only funds to focus on the sector even more http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5008&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5025&source=rss Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Project for cleanest coal power plant in the world clears another hurdle; FutureGen, a 275-megawatt power plant, will begin construction in 2009 and go on line in 2012; cost will be shared: $620 million by DOE, $250 million by coal mining and power industry companies http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5025&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5077&source=rss Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 The Arctic has immense oil reserves and mineral wealth, but Canada has been slow to protect its northern sovereignty; this becomes even more important as receding Arctic ice makes Canada's northern frontier more accessible to uninvited guests http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5077&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5081&source=rss Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 If current energy consumption trends continue, global energy consumption could increase well over 50 percent by 2030; global carbon dioxide emissions from energy use would increase by 57 percent http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5081&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5105&source=rss Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:35:30 -0500 The rising price of oil and growing concerns about the environment have fueled the notion that nuclear power will soon enjoy a renaissance; new study shows that facts on the ground tell a different story http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5105&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5212&source=rss Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Algae holds great promise as a biofuel enabler because it grows rapidly, are rich in vegetable oil, and can be cultivated in ponds of seawater; Shell wants to know more http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5212&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5237&source=rss Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Canadian researchers believe tiny underground bacteria may hold promise of extracting methane gas from abandoned oil fields and coal mines; all you have to do is feed the bacteria nutrients such as vitamins and minerals down boreholes http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5237&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5240&source=rss Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 Senate passed an energy bill which lacks many alternative energy measures which are included in the House’s version; bill may have a chilling effect on investors in clean tech; still, the bill calls for increase in auto fuel efficiency and expands the renewable fuels standard http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5240&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5249&source=rss Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 A major -- and surprisingly overlooked -- contribution to reducing greenhouse gasses: New analysis shows that use of existing biotechnology in the production of bulk chemicals could reduce consumption of nonrenewable energy and carbon emissions by 100 percent http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5249&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5255&source=rss Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 New policies allows FERC to issue licenses for new hydrokinetic projects even though certain authorizations required from other entities are outstanding http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5255&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5264&source=rss Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 One problem facing the growth of wind power is the currently limited manufacturing capacity of wind turbines; investors realize the opportunity here http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5264&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5265&source=rss Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:35:30 -0500 The £55 million wind farm will have twenty-three turbines; when Achany is commissioned, SSE will have 275MW of installed wind farm capacity http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5265&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5286&source=rss Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The intermittent nature of wind energy means that there is a need for the energy generated from wind turbines to be stored efficiently so that it can be recovered when needed http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5286&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5295&source=rss Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The energy efficiency portions of the energy bill which passed the Senate save U.S. consumers and businesses more than $400 billion between now and 2030; this is triple the savings from legislation passed by Congress in 2005 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5295&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5308&source=rss Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Dublin-based Airtricity develops and operates wind farms in the United Kingdom, Ireland, continental Europe, and China; Scottish and Southern Energy, eager to have more of a presence in renewable energy, acquires it http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5308&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5317&source=rss Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 A group of academics issue a report arguing that the established nuclear-power industry would inevitably move on to the use of fast-breeder reactors to manufacture plutonium for use as fuel, increasing the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5317&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5326&source=rss Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Germany's EPURON and local company will develop, finance, and construct Australia's biggest wind farm; Between 400 and 500 wind turbines with a peak capacity of 1,000 MW will supply 4.5 percent of the annual energy needs of NSW http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5326&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5332&source=rss Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 As the price of oil increases, the attractiveness of extracting oil from oil sands in Canada's northern regions increases apace; CN acquires yet more rail to ensure rail links to Alberta's oil sands region http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5332&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5336&source=rss Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 One of the major obstacles facing the development of ultra-clean car engines is the need for permanent-magnet electric motors to operate well at temperatures up to 200 degrees Celsius; Iowa researchers offer a way to create such magnets http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5336&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5341&source=rss Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Federal regulator grants Canadian company Finavera conditional five-year license to build and operate wave energy farm off the shore of Washington State; wave energy buoy farm is first in the U.S. http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5341&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5342&source=rss Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5342&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5346&source=rss Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Of the more than 100 nuclear reactors now being built, planned, or on order, about half are in China, India, and other developing nations; China has 11 nuclear plants and plans to bring more than 30 others on line by 2020; MIT report says China may need to add as many as 200 reactors by 2050; imagine China bringing to nuclear matters the same rigor and corruption-free approach it brings to inspection of food, children toys, and medicines http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5346&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5350&source=rss Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 GAO publishes a detailed report on terrorist threats to tankers carrying crude oil, liquefied gases, and refined products to the U.S.; these threats pose a major challenge, since the U.S. imports 55 percent of the nation's crude oil supply http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5350&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5358&source=rss Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 U.S. Geothermal launches first geothermal power plant in Idaho; plant uses innovative binary cycle technology in which the geothermal fluid is pumped through a heat exchanger to vaporize isopentane, an organic compound that vaporizes at lower temperatures than water http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5358&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5360&source=rss Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The University of Texas at Austin announces the Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC), a multimillion-dollar research consortium dedicated to the development of micro and nanotechnology applications to increase oil and gas production http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5360&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5362&source=rss Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 University to develop new tools for assessing the sustainability of nuclear power; among the tools to be developed: Methodology and decision-support system for assessing the sustainability of nuclear power and considering energy supply and demand http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5362&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5376&source=rss Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Rapid increase in U.S. wind power generation capacity sees 45 percent growth in 2007, injecting $9 billion into U.S. economy; growth of wind power accounts for 30 percent of the entire new power-producing capacity added nationally in 2007 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5376&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5379&source=rss Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 As the price of oil rises, the exploitation of difficult-to-reach oil and gas fields becomes more attractive; contract signed to develop Victoria Field in the southern North Sea http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5379&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5389&source=rss Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Car makers, with the help of $1 billion investment from Project Better Place, will wire Israel with 500,000 charging points and 150 battery-swap stations where motorists can exchange their depleted batteries for recharged ones within about five minutes http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5389&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5393&source=rss Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 MIT Energy Initiative unveils first seed grant winners for energy research; innovative research projects include harnessing microbes, developing new materials, curbing pollution, harvesting wasted watts, and much more http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5393&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5401&source=rss Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The search for clean and renewable energy led French researchers to experiment with harvesting the energy of falling rain drops; they show it is possible to convert the energy into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other devices http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5401&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5403&source=rss Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The rising price of oil and anxiety about global warming make nuclear power generation more attractive; companies servicing the nuclear power industry benefit http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5403&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5405&source=rss Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Since 2004, GE's wind turbine business has grown 500 percent, with its wind business revenues exceeding $4 billion in 2007; half of all wind turbines sold in the United States since 2005 were manufactured by GE http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5405&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5421&source=rss Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Hot fractured dry rock technology was invented to draw energy from deep underground areas where geothermal heat is abundant, but no water exists to carry the heat to the surface; Aussie company this week to begin operation of the world's first commercial dry rock geothermal power plant http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5421&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5429&source=rss Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 On 8 November 2007, the South African nuclear center at Pelindaba was the subject of two mysterious, and simultaneous, attacks; the country's nuclear monitoring agency, and the IAEA, declare security procedures at the nuclear plant to be satisfactory http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5429&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5432&source=rss Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 As nuclear power draws renewed interest -- what with the rising price of oil and growing worries about global warming -- there is more interest in tools and solutions to help deal with nuclear waste and nuclear clean-up http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5432&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5438&source=rss Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 As nuclear power draws renewed interest -- what with the rising price of oil and growing worries about global warming -- there is more interest in tools and solutions to help deal with nuclear waste and nuclear clean-up http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5438&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5441&source=rss Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Intel will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates; company said it hoped the record-setting purchase would help stimulate the market for green power http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5441&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5455&source=rss Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The sum of the world’s total wind energy installations has increased by 27 percent to reach over 94 GW by the end of 2007; the global wind market is estimated to be worth about €25 billion or $36 billion per year in new generating equipment http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5455&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5459&source=rss Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Aggies researchers shows that a strain of E. coli produces 140 times more hydrogen than is created in a naturally occurring process; finding may prove to be a significant stepping stone on the path to a hydrogen-based economy http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5459&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5463&source=rss Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Depending on the assumption we bring to the issue, additional 36 billion barrels of oil and 137 trillion cubic feet of natural gas would be added over current reserve estimates; this would result in limiting oil imports and increase America's energy security; but -- and this is an important "but" -- many assumptions must hold for this to be the case http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5463&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5470&source=rss Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The U.S., France, and Japan agree to collaborate on sodium-cooled fast reactor prototype development; a sodium-cooled fast reactor uses liquid sodium to transfer heat, burning the plutonium and other transuranic elements in the process producing clean, safe nuclear power, less waste, and increasing non-proliferation goals http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5470&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5493&source=rss Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 In 2006 the administration cut the budget for several planned sensors which would have sustained key, long-standing climate measurements; the new Bush budget proposal shows that funding for these sensors has been restored -- even enhanced http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5493&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5498&source=rss Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The U.K. has an ambitious plan calling for producing a third of Britain’s energy needs from offshore wind farms; there is a problem, though: The Ministry of Defense says that both onshore and offshore wind turbines create gaps in radar coverage of the coast line, allowing a sneak aerial attack on the country http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5498&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5502&source=rss Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 DOE grants $114 million for four small-scale biorefinery projects; these biorefineries will use a wide variety of feedstocks and test novel conversion technologies to provide data necessary to bring online full-size, commercial-scale biorefineries http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5502&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5503&source=rss Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5503&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5504&source=rss Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Aussie researchers to develop an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to assess the integrity of pipelines which lie up to 2.5 km below sea level, and evaluate the changing conditions of the sea-floor http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5504&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5507&source=rss Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The initiative, a joint EU-industry scheme in which $2.3 billion will be invested between 2008 and 2014, aims to speed up technological breakthrough developments and shorten the time to market for new green aviation solutions http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5507&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5515&source=rss Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Ceiling fan combines an electronically commutated motor and controller, and an aerodynamically efficient blade design that reduces fan input power by up to 66 percent of that of a traditional ceiling fan http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5515&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5517&source=rss Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Canadian researcher develops new device which harnesses the energy of a person's leg as it swings forward during a step; running the generator constantly through the stride generated 7 watts of power http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5517&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5523&source=rss Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Spanish oil company signs up a leading Norwegian engineering company to do infrastructure work for to oil exploration projects off the east coast of Spain http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5523&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5524&source=rss Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 More than 500 North Sea oil rig workers evacuated by helicopters after false alarm about an explosive device; bomb-disposal team dispatched http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5524&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5533&source=rss Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The Bush administration, as part of a new approach to producing clean cole, has ended government participation in the FutureGen project; government says that the private sector can now pick up the tab; the administration unfolds new clean cole initiatives http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5533&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5534&source=rss Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 DOE restructures FutureGen approach; under the new plan, DOE's investment would provide funding for no more than the carbon capture and storage (CCS) component of the power plant -- not the entire plant construction; the original 2003 FutureGen concept called for the federal government to cover 74 percent of the cost of the entire project; DOE requests $648 million in FY2009 budget for coal research, development, and deployment http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5534&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5535&source=rss Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The Department of Energy restructures its approach to FutureGen -- the ambitious plan to develop clean coal technology which produces hydrogen and electricity and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5535&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5537&source=rss Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 U.K. government agency injects £6 million into research aiming to halve the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells; in the first four years of the project, scientists created platform technologies in crystalline silicon, thin film silicon, thin film cadmium telluride, and thin film copper indium diselenide; now they will narrow down the research http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5537&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5546&source=rss Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The tidal farm scheme would be capable of generating 10.5 MW of power drawn entirely from the sea’s major tidal currents; project will be built off the north-west coast of Anglesey, north Wales http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5546&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5561&source=rss Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Sandia, SES achieve solar-to-grid conversion efficiency rate of 31.25 percent; increasing conversion rate, coupled with the rising price of oil and worries about the environment, make solar power more attractive http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5561&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5574&source=rss Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Australian specialist in wave energy to build three platforms off the coast of Maui; project aims to provide up to 2.7 megawatts http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5574&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5577&source=rss Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Connecting different renewable energy sources to the national grid may be a costly proposition; new study aims to find community generation schemes which are able to connect to the grid without the need for expensive cable upgrades or digging up roads http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5577&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5584&source=rss Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Virginia Tech engineering student wins second place in a Greener Gadgets Conference competition for inventing a floor lamp powered by gravity; lamp can last 200 years http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5584&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5590&source=rss Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Two wind farms to be built sixty km off the shore of the Netherlands will generate 2,000 MW; Dutch government's goal is to generate 6,000 MW by 2020 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5590&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5598&source=rss Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Tenaska proposes a new 600-megawatt, coal-fired power plant in Texas which would be the first to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions underground http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5598&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5603&source=rss Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Oxyfuel combustion is the process of firing a fossil-fueled power plant with an oxygen-enriched gas mix instead of air; oxyfuel combustion produces a CO2-rich flue gas ready for sequestration http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5603&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5607&source=rss Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Scientists say that sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California’s Mojave Desert could power all of the U.S. electricity needs -- if the energy could be efficiently harvested; this is a big "if," since current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications; Northwestern University researchers show a way to increase solar cell efficiency http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5607&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5608&source=rss Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Toshiba notices the growing interest in nuclear power, and opens high temperature liquid-sodium test loop at its Yokohama Complex; company says it will enhance its sodium-related technology in readiness for future business expansion in this promising market http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5608&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5609&source=rss Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Geothermal energy attracts more and more attention, and for good reason: One cubic kilometer of hot granite at 250 degrees centigrade has the stored energy equivalent of 40 million barrels of oil http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5609&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5610&source=rss Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Moth eyes do not reflect light: They have orderly bumps on their corneas, and the the array of bumps creates a situation in which almost no reflection exists, thus keeping the defenseless moth hidden from nocturnal predators; researchers want to increase the efficiency of solar panels by emulating moth eyes, allowing the panels to absorb and utilize -- rather than reflect and waste -- more of the sun's light http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5610&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5616&source=rss Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Australia is more economically vulnerable than any other wealthy nation to the effects of global warming; new report says: "Australia would be a big loser -- possibly the biggest loser among developed nations -- from unmitigated climate change" http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5616&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5620&source=rss Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 There is growing interest in solar power, but the cost of solar panels still exceeds their benefits, a University of California economist says; even under the most extreme assumptions -- a 5 percent annual increase in electricity costs and 1 percent interest rate -- the cost of solar PV is about 80 percent greater than the value of the electricity it will produce http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5620&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5649&source=rss Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Three new wind farms will have a combined output of 215 MW, which is enough to supply renewable energy to 109,000 homes; next year U.K. will overtake Denmark in percentage of national power generated by wind http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5649&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5657&source=rss Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Integrating variable wind and solar power production with the needs of the power grid is a major problem of these two alternative sources of energy; a Minnesota company will test technology to to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5657&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5658&source=rss Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 British specialist's bioethanol system yields 14 percent more ethanol, while reducing overall fermentation time by more than 20 percent; system will be tested in Oregon http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5658&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5669&source=rss Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 VCs investment in clean tech in 2007 increased 43 percent over similar investments in 2006; U.S.-based companies received $2.52 billion, or 83 percent of the total, in 159 clean-tech deals http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5669&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5670&source=rss Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Israeli electric car venture raises $200 million in first round financing -- the largest single recipient of VC cleantech funding in 2007; total VC 2007 investment in cleantech: More than $3 billion http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5670&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5680&source=rss Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Israeli electric car venture raises $200 million in first round financing -- the largest single recipient of VC cleantech funding in 2007; total VC 2007 investment in cleantech: More than $3 billion http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5680&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5684&source=rss Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Using food crops such as corn to produce fuel may not be such a good idea after all, as the contribution to pushing up the price of corn-based fuel would likely be greater than the contribution to reduce oil dependence or clean up the environment; two companies offer a way out http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5684&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5696&source=rss Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Seattle company issues the world's first global wind map, showing where wind is powerful enough to justify building wind energy farms; more than 40 percent of the world’s land mass has wind speeds at more than 6 meter per second (the minimum for effective generation), even though some of that land is not accessible for commercial development http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5696&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5706&source=rss Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Rising oil prices and worries about the environment have renewed interest in nuclear power generation; more than 30 new nuclear plants will be built in the United States in the coming years; Toshiba plans to benefit from this trend http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5706&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5716&source=rss Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Palo Alto, California-based Ausra says its solar thermal technology can power 90 percent of the U.S. grid, with enough left over to power a fleet of plug-in hybrids; traditional photovoltaics use panels to convert sunlight into electricity, but solar thermal plants focus the sun's rays on liquids to make steam which powers turbines http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5716&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5720&source=rss Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Australia, China in collaborative clean coal effort; the goal is to hone the post combustion capture (PCC) process, which uses a liquid to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from power station flue gases http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5720&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5721&source=rss Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The blades of turbines at U.K. wind farms interfere with the working of both military radar stations and civilian air-traffic control; a consulting firm offers a solution based on fill-in radar sensors sited at the wind farms themselves to cover the shadowed zone http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5721&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5730&source=rss Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Surfers -- and wave energy converters -- benefit from a having more accurate sense of the size and intensity of waves; Scottish researchers developed a technique to make the exploitation of wave energy more efficient with a device that measures the size of each wave approaching the converter http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5730&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5734&source=rss Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Two University of Maryland researchers develop a process which turns trash into ethanol; the researchers found that a Chesapeake Bay marsh grass bacterium has an enzyme that could quickly break down plant materials into sugar, which can then be converted to biofuel http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5734&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5741&source=rss Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 In an effort to accelerate the development of fuel cells, two companies form a JV to target the light industrial, commercial, and residential markets in the United Kingdom and Ireland http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5741&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5749&source=rss Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Scientists suggest mimicking the photosynthetic system of green plants to address the twin needs of readily available fuel and a clean environment: Reacting carbon dioxide with water, two of the major components used to extinguish fire, and turning them into a fuel http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5749&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5768&source=rss Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Innovative U.K. wave energy company raises $24 million in VC investment http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5768&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5777&source=rss Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Georgie Tech researchers developed material which captures CO2 from the chimneys of coal-fired power plants and other generators of the greenhouse gases http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5777&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5801&source=rss Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Two hundred years ago scientists discovered the thermoelectric effect: Certain materials can convert heat into electricity and vice versa; trouble is, most materials which conduct electricity also conduct heat, so their temperature equalizes quickly; until now: Boston College, MIT researchers solve this vexing problem http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5801&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5838&source=rss Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 To connect to the National Grid, large turbines often use a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) system comprising brushes and slip rings; these require regular maintenance which can be difficult to carry out, particularly offshore or in poor weather conditions; U.K. researchers offer solution http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5838&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5852&source=rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Shell, Virent in effort to convert plant sugars directly into gasoline and gasoline blend components; sugars can be sourced from non-food sources such as corn stover, switch grass, wheat straw, and sugarcane pulp, in addition to conventional biofuel feedstock like wheat, corn, and sugarcane http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5852&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5853&source=rss Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5853&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5858&source=rss Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5858&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5859&source=rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The City of Nottingham bought three ethanol-powered buses from Swedish company Scania for an 18 month trial; the waste-based ethanol will also come from Sweden, and will be tested against British-made sugar-based ethanol http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5859&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5860&source=rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Southern California Edison, largest utility in California, will place 250 MW of photovoltaic generators on 65 million square feet of roofs of Southern California commercial buildings http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5860&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5861&source=rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0500 There are serious questions about the security of Boiling-Water Reactor (BWR) design and construction, questions which Advanced Boiling-Water Reactor (ABWR) design was supposed to answer; not everyone is convinced; NRG Energy, Toshiba to promote and build ABWRs in the United States http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5861&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5871&source=rss Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0500 In February 2006 al Qaeda terrorists tried to blow up the world’s largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq; the Saudi government responded by setting up a 15,000-strong special force to protect oil, gas, and water desalination infrastructure http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5871&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5878&source=rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Spain is generating more and more of its energy from wind -- and Spanish company applies for permits to open six off-shore wind farms which, in the aggregate, will generate 3,000 MW http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5878&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5884&source=rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0500 The Australian and Japanese government, and several companies join in retrofitting a coal-fired boiler at Callide A power station in Central Queensland with oxy-firing technology which will burn coal in a mixture of oxygen and recirculated flue gases http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5884&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5889&source=rss Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Start-up has developed an innovative silicon cell architecture and a complementary manufacturing methodology which will allow it to make the solar cells so inexpensive that they would produce electricity at a comparable cost to that generated from coal powered stations http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5889&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5901&source=rss Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Wind power leaders from 2006 continue to lead in 2007 -- Texas tops among states in both total and new wind power, FPL Energy operating the nation’s largest wind farms, and more; new and noticeable: Iowa leads the nation in wind generation on a percentage basis, obtaining 5.5 percent of its electricity from wind http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5901&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5929&source=rss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The U.S. EPA gave Clean Diesel's Wire Mesh Filter technology high marks, and China needs it: At the beginning of the year it signed up to the Euro IV PM emission standards for light and medium duty trucks; a clean diesel technology will allow it to meet the treaty's standards http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5929&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5932&source=rss Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 It sounded like a good idea: Enrich the uranium used to power nuclear reactors further so that operators will be able to extract more electricity from a given amount of fuel; trouble is, burn-up rates above a certain point would violate U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's safety standards unless new methods were devised for packaging the fuel http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5932&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5934&source=rss Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 In the last five years the U.K. government has been vigorously promoting the idea of a U.K. nuclear power revival; John Hutton, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform explains the government's policy http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5934&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5946&source=rss Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 When water flows over an underwater obstacle, whirlpools or vortices form alternately above and below it; the vortices create a tugging effect, so the result is an alternating force that yanks the object up and down; Wolverines researchers want to harness the power of vortices to generate energy http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5946&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5952&source=rss Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.S. Geological Survey assesses Bakken Formation to Hold 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil -- 25 times more than 1995 estimate; in addition, assessment also identified 1.85 trillion cubic feet of associated/dissolved natural gas, and 148 million barrels of natural gas liquids http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5952&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5953&source=rss Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.S. Geological Survey assesses Bakken Formation to Hold 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil -- 25 times more than 1995 estimate; in addition, assessment also identified 1.85 trillion cubic feet of associated/dissolved natural gas, and 148 million barrels of natural gas liquids http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5953&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5969&source=rss Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 New York City already has it: A Free Flow Turbine in the East River which will generate 10 MW when the project is completed; now Ontario wants to place a three-blade, horizontal-axis turbine on the floor of the St. Lawrence River http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5969&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5983&source=rss Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Paris-Orly airport sits on a hot water table where the water temperature reaches 74 degrees C (165 degrees F) at a depth of 5,500 feet; management thought it would be a good idea to build a geothermal station to exploit this source of energy http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5983&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5991&source=rss Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Renewable energy in Spain: Iberdola Renewables, one of Spain's largest alternative energy companies, forms a joint venture with an Aragón bank to develop clean energy installations in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5991&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5992&source=rss Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Irish renewable energy company buys controlling interest in SES; SES is developing two of the world's largest solar generating projects in the Imperial Valley and Mojave Desert http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=5992&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6009&source=rss Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Most of the energy we consume requires the use of water for its generation; water is a dwindling resource, so researchers wanted to know how much water is required to produce different types of energy http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6009&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6024&source=rss Tue, 13 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6024&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6028&source=rss Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The U.S. Department of Energy will invest $50 million in demonstration project aiming to improve efficiency in the U.S. electricity grid http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6028&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6037&source=rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 High corn prices have driven California-based biofuel specialist Amyris to join with a Brazilian company to produce sugarcane-based diesel http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6037&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6038&source=rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:35:30 -0400 With more and more companies turning to biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels, a debate has erupted over the food-energy trade-off involved; a Welsh company bypasses this debate by planning to generate energy from straw http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6038&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6075&source=rss Mon, 05 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Power providers and technology companies are making the electric grid smarter; it will stop being merely a passive supplier of juice; installing smart controls in homes would allow consumers to decide how much energy they need at what price http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6075&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6085&source=rss Tue, 06 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Microbes naturally convert oil to methane over tens of millions of years; scientists find that this time scale could be shortened to a few hundred days in the laboratory by feeding the oil-based microbes with special nutrients http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6085&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6086&source=rss Tue, 06 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Power providers and technology companies are making the electric grid smarter; it will stop being merely a passive supplier of juice; installing smart controls in homes would allow consumers to decide how much energy they need at what price http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6086&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6114&source=rss Mon, 12 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Owing to rising oil prices and worries about climate change, there is a growing interest in nuclear power generation; forty countries have told the UN nuclear agency of plans to develop nuclear power generation capability; experts worry that this interest in nuclear technology is fueled at least in part by interest in nuclear weapons - especially in Middle Eastern countries terrified about the rise of a nuclear-armed Iran http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6114&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6117&source=rss Mon, 12 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 New wind project in ten states brings U.S. wind power capacity to more than 18,000 MW, or enough to serve the equivalent of five million homes http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6117&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6127&source=rss Wed, 14 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The U.S. Department of Energy wants to encourage research into harnessing water power -- ocean wave, tidal, current, and other water-based resources – for energy production http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6127&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6128&source=rss Wed, 14 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Project aims to examine the viability of a £15 billion tidal-range development scheme which, within fourteen years, could generate about 5 percent of the U.K. supply of electricity http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6128&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6135&source=rss Thu, 15 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The City on the Bay to help build charging infrastructure throughout the city and the suburbs to make use of electrical vehicles viable http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6135&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6155&source=rss Tue, 20 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The airline industry seeks to develop non-food biofuel which will offer aircraft cheaper fuel without affecting global food supplies http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6155&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6193&source=rss Fri, 23 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Steel is very strong, except that in cold temperatures it becomes brittle; new method of making steel withstand cold temperatures could make steel structures in Arctic areas, like ships or oil rigs, cheaper to construct http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6193&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6208&source=rss Wed, 28 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Torrefaction is increasingly seen as a desirable treatment for biomass because it creates a solid product which is easier to store, transport, and mill than raw biomass http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6208&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6209&source=rss Wed, 28 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.K. maritime energy specialist completes installation of 1.2 MW tidal energy system off the shore of Northern Ireland; system to provide clean electricity equivalent to that used by 1,000 homes http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6209&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6215&source=rss Thu, 29 May 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Sequestering CO2 is a good way to fight global warming, but only about 10 percent of the gas produced in the process of burning fossil fuels is CO2; most of the rest is nitrogen, which is not a greenhouse gas; there is a new, inexpensive way to separate the two http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6215&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6238&source=rss Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The U.S. Department of Energy says it is possible to reach the goal of having 20 percent of U.S. power needs generated by wind -- but it will require new transmission infrastructure and enhancing domestic manufacturing capability http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6238&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6249&source=rss Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Madison, Wisconsin-based Alliant Energy orders 303 1.65 MW wind turbines from Danish manufacturer, for a total installed capacity of 500 MW http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6249&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6257&source=rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.K. wind energy specialist launches round three leasing program to add 25 GW of new offshore wind farm sites by 2020 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6257&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6258&source=rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Collaboration will bring together GE's experience in integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) systems and Schlumberger Carbon Service's carbon capture and storage (CCS), site selection, and project management expertise http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6258&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6267&source=rss Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The Center for Efficient and Renewable Energy in Buildings will provide a teaching, research and demonstration resource for the capital; the center is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6267&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6268&source=rss Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.K. expert says that the beneficial effects of turning off standby lights, switching from bottled to tap water, washing clothes at a lower temperature, or having car tires at the right air pressure, pale in insignificance when compared with what was happening at the supply end of energy provision http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6268&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6279&source=rss Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 More and more investors are moving into the German solar energy sector; sector employment should grow from 41,000 jobs last year to around 110,000 by 2020 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6279&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6285&source=rss Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Renewed interest in nuclear power increases new investments and expenditures for uranium exploration more than 254 percent over the two-year period from 2004 to 2006; new report says supply sufficient for next century http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6285&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6294&source=rss Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Rebels in the Nigerian Delta are increasing their attacks on the country's oil infrastructure -- and lately have been targeting sea-based targets auch as tankers and oil rigs http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6294&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6300&source=rss Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.K. expert blames flawed statistical tools used by oil companies in estimating the size of oil reserves for creating an impression of oil scarcity http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6300&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6318&source=rss Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Te United Kingdom attracts the world's leading energy companies to build the country's next generation of nuclear power stations http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6318&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6326&source=rss Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Pacific Gas and Electricity to build a combined solar-thermal-biofuel hybrid power plant in California which will deliver a total of 700 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually of renewable electricity to PG&E customers throughout northern and central parts of the state http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6326&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6345&source=rss Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.K. company develops 100 percent-biofueled diesel engine which could help provide electricity to remote communities in the developing world; engine can run on pure biofuel with no additives -- but also on a variety of vegetable oils which have not been converted to conventional biofuels http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6345&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6359&source=rss Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 There is a growing demand in environment-conscious Canada for electric cars, but the Canadian government says that the vehicles made of lightweight metals and plastics are not safe to drive on Canada's open roads http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6359&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6377&source=rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Sales of small- to medium-size hybrid passenger cars are growing fast, but hybrid technology for trucks is about a decade behind; U.S. Congress wants to change that http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6377&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6378&source=rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 China wants to accelerate the pace of electrifying its hinterland, and signs up a Swiss company in a $70 million power grid equipment deal -- part of a $400 million package http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6378&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6389&source=rss Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The Bush administration sees clean coal as a vital component of its energy policy, and the Department of Energy announced a funding opportunity of $1.3 billion for companies and organizations doing research and development of clean coal http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6389&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6426&source=rss Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Architect unveils design for a moving, shape-shifting skyscraper; each floor would rotate independently; tower would be self-powered, generating its own electricity, as well as power for other nearby buildings http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6426&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6436&source=rss Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The U.S. Department of Energy issues three solicitations for a total of up to $30.5 billion in loan guarantees for projects that employ advanced energy technologies that avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or greenhouse gas emissions http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6436&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6447&source=rss Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Mitsubishi, E.ON to test a system which recovers carbon dioxide from flue-gas emissions at a coal-fired power plant in Germany http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6447&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6461&source=rss Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 If we are going to use biofuels as a meaningful alternative to fossil fuels, then enzymes which can break down plant material into usable source of fuel are required in industrial quantities and at a low cost; Aggies researchers offer new method of generating such enzymes http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6461&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6470&source=rss Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 EDF Energies Nouvelles to launch wind farm comprising 22 2.3 MW turbines supplied by German manufacturer Enercon; with a capacity to generate 50.6 MW, it will also be one of the largest in France http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6470&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6488&source=rss Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Rolls-Royce, British Airways collaborate on developing and testing alternative fuels for aviation; testing is expected to be complete by the end of March 2009, after which the results will be analyzed and reported http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6488&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6494&source=rss Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Treating and cleaning nuclear waste is part and parcel of nuclear power generation; The U.K. government, a proponent of greater reliance on nuclear power, takes steps to deal with legacy waste problems http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6494&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6521&source=rss Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.S. investment group and German energy company forms partnership to construct one of the North Sea's largest wind farms http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6521&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6539&source=rss Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Rolls-Royce estimates worldwide civil nuclear power market could be worth £50 billion a year in fifteen years time; company wants a piece of the action http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6539&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6540&source=rss Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Gore says that the United States can produce 100% of its electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources by 2018 http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6540&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6550&source=rss Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce U.S. oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6550&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6560&source=rss Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:35:30 -0400 There is a growing demand in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand for midsize nuclear reactors; Hitachi and GE respond http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6560&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6634&source=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The U.S. military wants to make a contribution toward reducing oil dependence and grann-house emmissions; the military has set a goal that 25 percent of its energy should come from renewable sources by 2025 and aims to create machines and methods to help Main Street America reach similar targets http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6634&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6636&source=rss Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The amount of power available from wind is related to the cube of its speed; blades at higher altitudes could thus generate up to five times the amount of electricity as at lower altitudes; why, then, not place blades at higher altitudes? http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6636&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6646&source=rss Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:35:30 -0400 U.S. Department of Energy awards funding ranging in value from $200,000 to $2,000,000 to 34 organizations to do reasearch into spent fuel separations technology, advanced nuclear fuel development, fast burner reactors, and advanced transmutation systems, advanced fuel cycle systems analysis, advanced computing and simulation, safeguards, and advanced waste forms http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6646&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6687&source=rss Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Lawrence Livermore researchers develop a "universal point detection system" which can detect explosive, chemical, and biological agents all at the same time http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6687&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6898&source=rss Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Aussie researchers have created a material which has the potential to filter and safely lock away radioactive ions from waste water; nanofibers which are millionths of a millimeter in size could permanently lock away radioactive cations by displacing the existing sodium ions in the fiber http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6898&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6899&source=rss Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Britain's Dounreay fast reactor was proclaimed as “the system of the next century”; this was in the 1960s; the last 15 years have seen the site develop into a nuclear reactor decommissioning project http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6899&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6902&source=rss Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 The nuclear fueled bank would allow countries, including Iran, to develop civilian nuclear power without having to enrich their own uranium, thus allaying fears over nuclear weapons proliferation http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6902&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6994&source=rss Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 Nuclear materials for power reactors cannot be stolen by those interested in using it for nuclear weapons while the material is in the reactor -- it is too hot to handle; the risks of diversion are during the enrichment process, and while the material is being transported; to lessen the risk, researchers offer innovative reactor design http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=6994&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7003&source=rss Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0400 New report says the energy companies experienced more Web-based malware attacks than any other vertical market in the third quarter of this year, with an increased rate of exposure of 189 percent http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7003&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7008&source=rss Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:35:30 -0500 As worries about the rising price of oil and climate change grow, so grows the interest in nuclear power -- but not only for ground-based power generation; a U.K. government-funded project examines the idea of nuclear-powered passenger plane http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7008&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7051&source=rss Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Congress has placed a 77,000-ton limit on the amount of nuclear waste that can be buried in Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository (the repository will open in 2020 at the earliest); trouble is, the 104 active U.S. nuclear reactors, together with the Pentagon, produce that amount of waste in two years http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7051&source=rss http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7074&source=rss Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:35:30 -0500 Critical infrastructure insiders say the energy industry is also the most vulnerable to cyber attacks and would have the most detrimental breach http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=7074&source=rss