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Study Shows Reductions in Biomass Smoke Pollution Reduce Risk of Death

Male deaths from all-causes, but particularly cardiovascular and respiratory disease, could be significantly reduced with a decrease in biomass smoke (smoke produced by domestic cooking and heating and woodland fires), a paper published today on bmj.com suggests.

9 Jan 2013

Tesla to Exhibit at 9th Annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit to be Held on Feb 6-7

You've seen the reviews and now it's time to experience the thrill of driving Tesla’s Model S for yourself! Attendees of the 9th Annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit will receive an exclusive opportunity to drive the Tesla Model S. Model S is the world's first premium sedan to be engineered from the ground up as an electric vehicle. Since beginning deliveries, to U.S. customers in June of this year, Model S has been awarded multiple accolades including, Motor Trends2013 Car of the Year ® AUTOMOBILE Magazine2013 Automobile of the Year.

8 Jan 2013

New Approach to Calculate Potential Renewable Energy from Waste Material

Cranfield University has developed a new approach for calculating the potential renewable energy derived from waste material, prior to incineration, which could save time and money for the energy and waste industries.

From Cranfield University 8 Jan 2013

Jari Koskinen Inaugurates New Bioenergy Heating Plant in Lohja, Finland

Jari Koskinen, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, inaugurated the new bioenergy heating plant in Lohja, Finland, on 7 January 2013. The plant, situated next to Metsä Group's Kerto mill in Lohja is significant for energy supply in the area as the plant produces a combined annual total of about 160,000 MWh of heat to the Lohja district heating network, and process steam to the Kerto mill of Metsä Wood, part of Metsä Group.

8 Jan 2013

Detroit Thermal Adds Wayne State University's Medical School Buildings to Energy Network

Detroit Thermal, owner and operator of the downtown Detroit district energy steam system, today announced the 25-year commitment by Wayne State University to Detroit Thermal's (DT) renewable steam network. Gordon H. Scott Hall and the Helen Vera Prentis Lande Building will join the network as part of the school's strategic sustainability efforts.

8 Jan 2013

China to Promote Large-Scale Offshore Wind Development

"Wind power has become the third-largest electric power in China," said Liu Qi, deputy director general of the National Energy Administration. "There is no electric power to substitute the position of wind power as No. 3, following thermal power and hydropower." It was said in the report of the 18th CPC National Congress that "China is determined to promote the revolution of energy generation and consumption, to control the total consumption of energy, to improve energy conservation, and to support the development of energy conservation and the low carbon industry as well as renewable energy in order to ensure the safety of national energy."

8 Jan 2013

UC Davis Chemists Engineer Blue-Green Algae to Grow Chemical Precursors for Fuels

Chemists at the University of California, Davis, have engineered blue-green algae to grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics -- the first step in replacing fossil fuels as raw materials for the chemical industry.

8 Jan 2013

Solarvest Acquires Summerville Prince Edward Island Facility for Algae Production

SOLARVEST BIOENERGY INC. ("Solarvest" or the "Company"), wishes to announce Solarvest has made significant progress in its plans to use its patented algal technology to develop commercial products focused on health care.

8 Jan 2013

Blade Dynamics to Develop Wind Turbine Blades for ETI

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has appointed Blade Dynamics to develop and demonstrate the technologies for constructing what are expected to be the world’s longest wind turbine blades ever built.

8 Jan 2013

Fiscal Cliff Provides Critical Capital for Biodiesel Producers

When the House of Representatives passed the "Fiscal Cliff" bill late Tuesday evening, the biodiesel industry was watching. The bill included an extension of the federal biodiesel blenders tax credit for 2013, and a retroactive extension for 2012. Blue Sun noted that for many companies in the industry the bill provides not only certainty moving forward, but provides critical capital for biodiesel producers.

7 Jan 2013

Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice Sheets May be Substantially Larger than Estimated

Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, according to new research from the University of Bristol.

7 Jan 2013

Japan Survives Summer without Nuclear Power

In the 18 months since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following an earthquake and tsunami, as Japan's other nuclear reactors shut for routine maintenance, popular opposition kept them from restarting. The country entered the summer of 2012 with all its nuclear generators shuttered. With a fourth of its pre-Fukushima power supply gone, blackouts were expected, especially in the country's western region.

7 Jan 2013

New Concept for Quantifying Stability Can Help Assess Climatic Tipping Elements

As they typically result from severe external perturbations, it is of vital interest how stable the most desirable state is. Surprisingly, this basic question has so far received little attention. Now scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), in a paper published in Nature Physics, propose a new concept for quantifying stability.

7 Jan 2013

EU Can Save €10,000 Million per Year by Cleaning up Mercury Pollution

Cleaning up mercury pollution and reducing prenatal exposure to the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) could save the European Union €10,000 million per year, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health. New estimates suggest that between 1.5 and 2 million children in the EU are born each year with MeHg exposures above the safe limit of 0.58µg/g and 200,000 above the WHO recommended maximum of 2.5µg/g.

7 Jan 2013

Superconducting Generator May Improve Efficiency of Wind Power Plants

An efficient, robust, and compact wind power plant with a 10 MW superconducting generator is being developed by partners from industry and science within the recently established EU project SUPRAPOWER. Superconduction enables considerable savings of energy and raw materials. Within SUPRAPOWER, researchers at KIT’s Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) develop a rotating cryostat cooling the superconducting coils down to minus 253°C - a temperature crucial for electric current flow without resistance.

4 Jan 2013