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World's Most Advanced Nuclear Reactor Launched by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced it has achieved a key milestone in deploying the world’s most advanced nuclear reactor design

10 Sep 2009

PGE Grant Awarded to OIT for Student Renewable Solar Energy Project

The Oregon Institute of Technology junior received a $9,000 grant from Portland General Electric to design and implement a monitoring system for a combined solar and wind power installation for the high school

10 Sep 2009

Climate Change and the Antarctica to be Featured in Exhibition

A group of Design Computing students from the University will be exhibiting an innovative new interactive exhibition opening next week on the theme of climate change and the Antarctica

9 Sep 2009

Energy Experts Help Households in Australia Reduce Carbon Emissions

CSIRO scientists say householders can reduce their home and car energy use by as much as 50 per cent by making changes to daily activities

9 Sep 2009

How Climate Effects Atmospheric Haze Now Better Understood

Scientists have used a new approach to sharpen the understanding of one of the most uncertain of mankind’s influences on climate—the effects of atmospheric “haze,” the tiny airborne particles from pollution, biomass burning, and other sources

9 Sep 2009

WWF Says EU Needs to Include Climate Change and the Environment as Indicators of the Performance of a Country

The European Union failed to develop alternative indicators to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which would include climate change and environmental sustainability when measuring a member state’s performance

9 Sep 2009

Australia's Holden Sportwagon Tested In Global Green Challenge

The Holden Commodore, Australia’s favourite car will take part in the world's leading showcase of low emission and alternative energy vehicles next month

9 Sep 2009

Toyota Debut 2010 Prius Plug-in Hybrid at Frankfurt Motor Show

The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid (PHV) Concept vehicle will make its world debut next week at the Frankfurt Motor Show

9 Sep 2009

Commitment to Cutting Carbon Doubled by Public Sector

Public sector bodies are setting increasingly ambitious targets for carbon reduction, doubling their commitments over the last four years, the Carbon Trust reported today

9 Sep 2009

Using Mathematics To Reduce Data Center Energy Consumption

Researchers at the University of Sydney have come up with a mathematical model verified by software implementation that can more than halve the energy consumption of processors in data centres at little or no operational cost

9 Sep 2009

Crisis to Hot Solar Power Companies in 2010

Solar equipment companies will feel the impact of a looming solar industry crisis in 2010 according to the report Opportunities in The Solar Market For Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Cells, published by The Information Network

9 Sep 2009

Burger King Testing Way of Making Electricity from Moving Cars

New Energy Technologies, a next-generation alternative and renewable energy developer, today announced that engineers have successfully conducted the first-ever durability field-tests of the Company’s prototyped MotionPower™ technology for generating electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks

9 Sep 2009