Congressman Steve Israel (D-Huntington) visited Port Washington, N.Y.-based energy technology company WATT Fuel Cell Corp. (WATT) as part of yesterday’s Startup Day Across America, a national day dedicated to raising awareness of startup companies and job creation to catalyze support for the local entrepreneurial community.
A team of Burns & McDonnell engineers, along with subcontractor Coritech Services, has developed a system of bidirectional, fast-charging stations for a fleet of plug-in electric vehicles at Fort Carson, Colo. This first-of-its-kind system will push power back to the base microgrid when needed to meet installation demand or improve overall power quality.
ACCIONA Energy North America has been selected to compete for up to $7 billion in contracts to provide renewable energy to U.S. Army facilities. The Department of Defense is the largest single consumer of energy in the world, and it is mandated to meet at least 25% of its facilities’ energy needs with renewable energy by 2025.
WCA Waste Corporation (“WCA”), a vertically-integrated, non-hazardous solid waste services company, has been designated as an official Sustainability Partner for the University of Florida system.
Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University have signed a formal partnership agreement on important renewable energy challenges. The goals of the memorandum of understanding are to encourage collaborative research, build educational and workforce development programs and inform policy endeavors.
ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola"), a leading brand and technology provider of solar photovoltaic ("PV") products, today announced it has signed a series of agreements to provide Lightsource Renewable Energy Limited ("Lightsource"), the largest solar energy generator in the United Kingdom, with 69.5 megawatts ("MW") of solar modules for installation on solar farms in the United Kingdom.
The new study by Prof. Sarah Kang from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), showed that the ozone depletion over the South Pole has affected the extreme daily precipitation in the austral summer, for December, January, and February (DJF). This work was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letter. (Title: “Modeling evidence that ozone depletion has impacted extreme precipitation in the austral summer”, Vol. 40, 1-6, doi:10.1002/grl.50796, 2013)
CO2 Solutions Inc., an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, today announced that it has met and exceeded the first two technical performance milestones for its Alberta Oil Sands project. The Company demonstrated its patented carbon capture technology is at least one-third less expensive than existing carbon capture technology in terms of energy consumption, and can withstand the rigors of industrial application.
Sol Systems continues its success in financing mid-market commercial solar projects, and recently secured an investor for a 500 kW North Carolina project in a matter of weeks. The system, located in Clayton, North Carolina was funded through a larger multi-megawatt portfolio.
An outpouring of research funds is helping a group of Kansas State University researchers study how human activity and climate change affect Central Great Plains water systems.
Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on Americans’ health.
By Jennifer Chu
30 Aug 2013
When science educator Erin Saitta was a graduate student, she was invited to participate in a program in which students from kindergarten to high school age would do inquiry-based science — conducting real research labs without known outcomes, with the emphasis on learning how science works.
A recent study by UC Santa Barbara scientists analyzed whole-body fish samples taken from oil-and-gas production platforms and natural sites for heavy metal pollutants. The results showed all but four elements were relatively consistent at both types of location. The findings were published in the Bulletin of Marine Science.
In some of this planet’s driest regions, where rainfall is rare or even nonexistent, a few specialized plants and insects have devised ingenious strategies to provide themselves with the water necessary for life: They pull it right out of the air, from fog that drifts in from warm oceans nearby.
By David L. Chandler
30 Aug 2013
The best real estate for coral reefs over the coming decades will no longer be around the equator but in the sub-tropics, new research from the University of Bristol suggests.