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Gasoline Composition is Changing

Increasing availability of renewable fuels like ethanol is changing the composition of the fuels offered to American drivers. With these changes in mind, the Renewable Fuels Foundation (RFF) has released its definitive resource on gasoline quality, "Changes in Gasoline Manual IV".

12 Jul 2009

Argonne National Lab and Turkey Team Up on Green Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

12 Jul 2009

Applied Materials Shows Strategy For Making Solar Power Affordable for Everyone, Everywhere

Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing equipment, will showcase its strategy to make solar power affordable for everyone, everywhere, at the Intersolar North America event in San Francisco next week

12 Jul 2009

Environmentally Friendly Lubricating Grease Made From Biomaterials

A team of researchers from the University of Huelva has developed an environmentally-friendly lubricating grease based on ricin oil and cellulose derivatives, according to the journal Green Chemistry. The new formula does not include any of the contaminating components used to manufacture traditional industrial lubricants

12 Jul 2009

Biomaterials From SABIC Increase Options for Environmentally Sustainable Products

SABIC Innovative Plastics launches two new products in a line of LNP Thermocomp specialty compounds that use curaua fiber and wood flour natural reinforcements. These new materials can be used for a variety of applications including automotive interiors and packaging

12 Jul 2009

Suncatcher Solar Power Dishes Unveiled at Sandia

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

12 Jul 2009

Turning Waste From Making Beer Into Green Power

Brewing beer creates tonnes of leftover used grains. But that waste can be turned into fuel, as a EUREKA-backed partnership of German and Slovakian developers has shown

12 Jul 2009

Reduce Building Energy Use With a Spray on Heat Barrier For Your Roof

Austin 360 Roofing, a leading, Texas-based roofing company, has extended its energy efficiency product and service offerings to central Texas customers by supplying a spray-on radiant heat barrier

12 Jul 2009

G8 Leaders Reach Agreement on Global Warming Goals

Hopes that a comprehensive climate agreement can be agreed in Copenhagen in December were given a boost after leaders of the world's eight major economic powers agreed to broad goals for reducing global warming at the G8 meeting

10 Jul 2009

Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanopillars

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low cost and flexible materials

9 Jul 2009

California Energy Supplier Picks SOLON to Build 2 Megawatt Solar Power Plant

U.S. energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric Company, headquartered in San Francisco, California, has commissioned the SOLON Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build a photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) in California

9 Jul 2009

How and Where Should Nuclear Waste Be Disposed

The withdrawal Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high level nuclear waste

9 Jul 2009

Monitoring The Effect of Nanomaterials on the Environment

Edmonton-University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment

8 Jul 2009

Sustainable Farming Practices of the Future to Borrow From Ancient Farming Methods

The effect of climate change on some parasitic diseases of livestock is far more complex than previously thought, and farmers may have to look to historic farming practices to control future diseases

8 Jul 2009