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Space Technology Being Used to Make Solar Power More Efficient

A new system from an Italian company uses weather satellite data to estimate the potential of solar cell power plants and monitor their performance. The approach helps to give a faster return on investments in clean solar energy

19 Oct 2009

Protonex Fuel Cell System Powers Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle To Record 23-Hour Flight

Protonex Technology Corporation (LSE: AIM: PTX and PTXU), a leading provider of advanced fuel cell power systems, today announced that the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), through a program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has documented a flight endurance record on their small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Ion Tiger, utilizing a highly advanced fuel cell system from Protonex

19 Oct 2009

USAF Launches New Environmental Satellite

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin, was launched this morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base

19 Oct 2009

EcoCAR Challenge Started by Engineering Students at Virginia Tech

When a college student receives a new car, their first typical thought isn't how they'll dismantle the vehicle's engine and re-engineer it for maximum fuel efficiency and lowest possible emissions. But that's exactly what members of the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech (HEVT) plan to do with a 2009 crossover SUV

18 Oct 2009

Do Consumers Practice What They Preach in Green Hotels

A significant gap lies between consumers’ attitudes towards “green” initiatives in the hospitality industry and their actual behavior, according to a study by two hospitality and tourism management graduate students at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business

18 Oct 2009

Only Five Years Left to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

The world has just five years to initiate a low carbon industrial revolution before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable. But the good news is that it can be done and that the long term benefits will be immense

18 Oct 2009

Greenpeace Encourages EU Not To Bow to US Pressure to Weaken Climate Deal

The European Union needs to stand firm and reject US efforts to weaken a climate deal in Copenhagen, said Greenpeace, as the world’s largest emitters gather in London for the US-led Major Economies Forum (MEF) beginning Sunday

18 Oct 2009

SINTEF Gets Award for Carbon Capture and Storage

SINTEF’s DYNAMIS project received the "CSLF Recognition Award" in London in October for its contribution to CO2 capture and storage

18 Oct 2009

Butler University Going Environmentally Friendly

Everywhere you look on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis, there’s something “green” going on. A new classroom and lab addition to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences building was built following national Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria. Ditto for renovations that brought an abandoned 80-year-old fraternity house back to life

18 Oct 2009

Solar Decathlon Winners Announced

U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman today announced the winners of the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Competition

18 Oct 2009

Conservation Targets Being Set Too Low To Stop Extinction

Conservation biologists are setting their minimum population size targets too low to prevent extinction

18 Oct 2009

Biofuels Report Examines Pros and Cons of Crop Based Fuels

A far more sophisticated approach needs to be taken when developing biofuels as an environmentally-friendly energy option a new report concludes

18 Oct 2009

Innovative New Wind Turbine to get Power Conversion System From Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, is providing power conversion systems and generators for a new innovation in wind turbine design from Green Energy Technologies

18 Oct 2009

Cybercom Selected to Provide Electronics for Low Emissions, High Fuel Efficiency Truck Project

A world-leading truck manufacturer chose Cybercom (STO:CYBE) to supply the control electronics for trucks that will be test driven in a unique environmental project during 2010-2012

15 Oct 2009

Corn Oil Extraction Patent Awarded to GreenShift

GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,601,858, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems” (the ’858 Patent) for the extraction of corn oil to GS CleanTech Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenShift

15 Oct 2009