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History Made at Motorcross Event for Electric Motorcycles

Quantya and Zero electric motocross dirt bikes compete in 6 lap all electric motorcross bike race

10 May 2009

Turning Biomass Into Electricity More Efficient Than Using Ethanol for Vehicles

A new study suggests that biomass used to generate electricity could be more efficient than converting the biomass to ethanol for internal combustion engines

10 May 2009

Work Needed to Save Recycled Car Parts From Being Destroyed

All across the world, governments are implementing early vehicle retirement programs that are intended to help struggling automakers. Additional analysis of the potential ramifications of these proposed programs is needed

10 May 2009

Earliest Ice Age Caused By Rise of Oxygen

Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question – an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which consumed atmospheric greenhouse gases and chilled the earth

10 May 2009

Thermafiber Introduces Thermafiber Insolutions Innovative Insulation Products

Thermafiber, Inc. officially announces the launch of Thermafiber Insolutions. Thermafiber Insolutions is a five-pronged approach to providing innovative insulation products and services to architects, specifiers, contractors and building facade manufacturers

10 May 2009

Major Cellulosic Biofuel Technology Breakthrough from Mascoma

Mascoma Corporation today announced that the company has made major research advances in consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, a low-cost processing strategy for production of biofuels from cellulosic biomass. CBP avoids the need for the costly production of cellulase enzymes by using engineered microorganisms that produce cellulases and ethanol at high yield in a single step

10 May 2009

Wind Farm Electricity Supply to Benefit From Reactive Power Compensation System by Siemens

New system from Siemens enhances voltage quality and stability in the power system which allows grid access of fluctuating energy
sources, such as offshore wind farms

10 May 2009

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Testing Wind Power and an Electric Vehicle

Aircraft propellers aren’t the only things spinning at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The Metropolitan Airports Commission has installed 10 wind-powered electricity generators and purchased an electric-powered utility vehicle for use at the airport

10 May 2009

Never Mind Global Warming, 11.5 Billion Years Ago The Entire Universe Froze

Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of the size it is today

10 May 2009

Corn Growers Call For Recognition of Importance of Corn Ethanol in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) urged policymakers in our nation's capital to acknowledge the benefits of corn ethanol in helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

10 May 2009

Argonne National Lab Researchs Win Award for New Battery System

Three scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have won an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for a battery system expected to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as America's dependence of imported oil

10 May 2009

Green Energy System From Boston College Gets Funding

Boston College physicists have been awarded $2.1 million in "green energy" funding from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a multi-university project to develop solid-state materials that transfer solar energy to electricity

10 May 2009

Nanosys Forms A Division to Develop Solar Panels

Nanosys today announced the creation of QD Soleil, a wholly owned division focused on the use of its proprietary nanotechnology in solar panel cell designs

10 May 2009

Climate Friendly Biofuels Launched Based on Lignocellulosic Biomass

Süd-Chemie AG, a leading manufacturers of catalysts and adsorbents, and The Linde Group, a leading global company in the sector of gases and engineering, have launched the production of climate-friendly biofuels based on lignocellulosic biomass in Munich

7 May 2009

New Class Of Ultra Light High Efficiency Solar Cells Developed

A new class of ultra-light, high-efficiency solar cells developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been awarded a national prize for the commercialization of federally funded research

7 May 2009