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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

Researchers Develop New System For Storing Hydrogen For Hydrogen Powered Vehicles

Sandia researchers have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system. The system stores 3 kilograms of hydrogen and is large enough to evaluate control strategies suitable for use in vehicle applications

7 May 2009

Thin Film Batteries, The Future Market

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst based here, today announced the release of "Thin-Film Batteries: Current and Future Markets 2009-2016."

7 May 2009

Construction Supply Companies Commit To Halving Landfill Waste

In just six months, 100 leading organisations from across the construction supply chain have committed to WRAP’s Halving Waste
to Landfill voluntary agreement

6 May 2009

Mobile Testing of Electrostatic Precipitators For Cleaning Exhaust Gases From Industrial Plants

Siemens Industry Solutions Division offers operators of
electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) for cleaning exhaust gases in industrial plants, power plants and refuse incineration plants, a mobile installation for testing and optimizing the collecting efficiency

6 May 2009