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Gurit Gets Patent for Wind Turbine Blade Materials

Gurit's European patent EP 1 128 958, which covers its SPRINT product used mainly in the manufacture of wind turbine blades but also many other Gurit target market applications

8 Nov 2009

French Solar Power Plant Gets Working

Neoen and Arkema announce the start-up of a photovoltaic power plant on Arkema’s Serquigny industrial site in Haute-Normandie, France

8 Nov 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance To Make Batteries for Electric Vehicles in France

A letter of intent was signed today in Flins between the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) to set-up a joint venture company that would develop and manufacture batteries for electric vehicles

5 Nov 2009

Catalysts Hold the Key to Increasing Energy Production and Reducing Climate Change Emissions

University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions

5 Nov 2009

EnerDel to Develop Battery System For US Army Hybrid Humvee

Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc. announced today that it will be working with the United States Army to develop a next-generation battery system for the hybrid version of the iconic High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee), known as the XM1124 Humvee

5 Nov 2009

BASF Reshuffles Business to Focus on Fuel Cells

BASF is realigning its business for the fuel cell market. In the future, competencies for the production of high-temperature membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) will be concentrated in Somerset, New Jersey

5 Nov 2009

Artificial Leaf Turns Sunlight into Liquid Fuel For Vehicles

Scientists are making progress toward development of an "artificial leaf" that mimics a real leaf's chemical magic with photosynthesis - but instead converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such as methanol for cars and trucks

5 Nov 2009

DOE Invests in Solar Power Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Argonne National Laboratory nearly $2.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for three solar-energy related research projects

5 Nov 2009

OSRAM Releases LED Light With Warm White Light, High Efficiency and True Colors

An LED that offers high efficiency, good color rendering and a pleasant warm white light has now been developed in the laboratories of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors

5 Nov 2009

BASF Treated Mosquito Nets Now Come in Biodegradable Packaging

BASF has developed a fully biodegradable packaging system for its Interceptor® insecticide-treated mosquito nets

5 Nov 2009

mPhase Gets Patent For Environmentally Friendly 'Green' Battery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: XDSL.OB) reported today that it has been granted a United States patent for its concept for a battery that is safer for the environment

5 Nov 2009

Parker Hannifin Expands Focus on Renewable Energy

Continued growth in the demand for sources of renewable energy has led Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, to expand still further its range of products, systems and customer services in the power sector

5 Nov 2009

Animal Extinction Crisis Highlights Need for Biodiversity Action

A third of the world's amphibians, a fifth of all mammals and 70 per cent of all plants are under threat, according to the latest Red List published just two months before the world marks the International Year of Biodiversity 2010

5 Nov 2009

Australia Leading the World in Algae Biofuels

Australian scientists are achieving the world's best production rates of oil from algae grown in open saline ponds, taking them a step closer to creating commercial quantities of clean biofuel for the future

5 Nov 2009

Great Soils are the Key to Great Wines

The world's greatest wines are the result of a threefold synergy among grape variety, human input, and something called the “terroir” -- a term often defined as the vineyard site, soil, and climate

5 Nov 2009