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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

Merck and Dyesol Join Forces On Dye Solar Cells

Merck KGaA and Dyesol Limited have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of electrolytes for use in Dye Solar Cells (DSC)

15 Oct 2009

NextGen Research Invesitgates Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

A new market study “Electric and Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Components: The Global Market for Batteries, Ultracapacitors, Electric Motors, and the Electronics that Improve Vehicle Efficiency”, builds on NextGen Research’s recent research on electric vehicles and both consumer and commercial hybrids, and presents the overall vehicle sales forecast data segmented by hybrid, electric, and hydraulic architecture from 2008 through 2014

15 Oct 2009

Water Is Being Created on the Moon Due to Electrically Charged Particles From the Sun

The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing water

15 Oct 2009

Human Brains Proved to be Environmentally Friendly

Our brains, it turns out, are eco-friendly. A study published in Science and reviewed by F1000 Biology members Venkatesh Murthy and Jakob Sorensen reveals that our brains have the amazing ability to be energy efficient

15 Oct 2009

Environmental Futures and Options Contracts to be Listed on ASX

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), operator of electricity and natural gas futures and options markets in Australia and New Zealand, has received regulatory clearance for futures and options contracts on Renewable Energy Certificates (REC)

15 Oct 2009

Changes Predicted on the Seabed Due to Climate Change

CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed

15 Oct 2009

Global and Land Ocean Temperatures Second Highest on Record for September

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record

15 Oct 2009

EPA 2010 Annual Fuel Economy Guide Now Available

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy today unveiled the 2010 Fuel Economy Guide, which gives consumers important information about estimated fuel costs and mileage standards for model year 2010 vehicles

15 Oct 2009

Siemens, Fortum and TVO Team Up On Carbon Capture and Storage

Siemens Energy has been selected as the capture technology partner for the FINNCAP - Meri-Pori Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project by the owners of Meri-Pori power plant, Finnish utilities Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO)

15 Oct 2009