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Magnetic Refrigeration Technology May Bring In a New Era in Environmentally Friendly Cooling

Magnetic refrigeration technology may signal a new era in environmentally friendly fridges and air-conditioning systems, slashing the staggering amounts of energy that they currently consume by up to 30%

18 May 2009

Hydrogen Production Process That Uses Sun Power Wins Award

A research project that aims to produce hydrogen on an environmentally friendly and cost-effective basis by using energy from the sun has won a prestigious E.ON research award

18 May 2009

Scientists Mimic Enzyme to Make Nature Based Hydrogen Processor for Fuel Cells

By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor

18 May 2009

Lithium Ion Battery Power Tripled by New Research

NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries

18 May 2009

Tiny, Programmable Switch-mode Battery Chargers Feature Fast and Efficient "Green" Technology

Summit Microelectronics has expanded its third-generation programmable battery charger integrated circuit (IC) family with the introduction of the SMB329. Based on the award winning, highly-integrated SMB339 family, the ...

18 May 2009

Biodiesel Terminal to be Opened by Baystate Biofuels in Mass.

Baystate Biofuels is taking the final steps necessary to officially open its doors and start delivering a green energy, petroleum alternative to the region. Construction of the biodiesel terminal in North Andover, MA will begin by end of May 2009 with product ready to sell by summer’s end

18 May 2009

Poop to Power As Energy From Wastewater System Starts Operation

An innovative MaxWest gasification system, first approved by the City of Sanford, Florida in 2008, begins operating on May 21 at Sanford’s South Water Resource Center. The occasion also marks the official dedication by the City of its new Water Resource Center

18 May 2009

Cleaning The Air and Greening Schools in Austin Texas

Today marks the launch of Drive the Change Austin, a movement created by Austin-based clean tech company, Sabertec, makers of Blade, to clean our air, lower our carbon footprint and improve our fuel efficiency while raising money for the greening of Austin public schools

18 May 2009

National Restaurant Association Joins Program to Reduce Energy and Water Use in Restaurants

The National Restaurant Association today launched a new campaign - the National Restaurant Association Conserve/EPA ENERGY STAR Challenge - and is encouraging the nation's nearly one million restaurants, their 13 million employees, as well as their suppliers and guests to reduce energy and water use in establishments

18 May 2009

Tonnes of Waste Wooden Railroad Ties May Soon Become Bio-Oil and Energy

New Green Technologies, Inc., announces that it entered a bid for a study to use its waste to energy gasification process for using waste wood ties to create energy and dispose of toxic railroad ties in Canada

17 May 2009