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Honeycomb Material Structure Key to New Generation of Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are one of the most touted new energy technologies. New materials developments are about to make fuel cells even better

6 Aug 2008

Guide Released by World Bank and UN to Show City Planners The Climate Change Vulnerability of Their City

Practical help is at hand for city planners and administrators around the world who are attempting to come to terms with the increased risks that many major urban centers now face as a result of climate change

6 Aug 2008

American Superconductor Licenses Wind Turbine Technology to Model Enerji in Turkey

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, announced today that it has licensed its proprietary WT1650 wind turbine design to Model Enerji Ltd., Turkey

6 Aug 2008

Chicken Manure Biogas to Power Jenbacher Gas Engines for Electricity and Heat

GE Energy's ecomagination certified Jenbacher gas engines will use biogas created from chicken manure to generate needed power and heat at a large chicken farm north of the China's capital city of Beijing

5 Aug 2008

Fuel Efficient Boeing 757 Jet Added to FedEx Aircraft Fleet

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest express transportation company, has launched its inaugural revenue flight using a Boeing 757 freighter

5 Aug 2008

Hydrogen Fuel Production and Power Plant Proposed for California

Hydrogen Energy International LLC, a joint venture of BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto, today announced plans to file an AFC (Application for Certification) before the California Energy Commission on Thursday, July 31, 2008, for a proposed hydrogen fuel production facility and power plant in Kern County, California. The filing initiates a comprehensive regulatory review process and, upon approval, grants permission for the construction of the nation’s first industrial-scale low-carbon power plant with carbon capture and sequestration

5 Aug 2008

Pentadyne Power Corporation Has Eclipsed Active Power as Number One Flywheel Energy Storage Systems Producer

Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of flywheel clean energy storage systems, has eclipsed Active Power as the world’s number one producer of flywheel energy storage systems

5 Aug 2008

Air Products Signs Contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company of China

Air Products has signed a long-term contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shaan’xi Weihe Coal Chemical Group Ltd, one of China’s largest coal-based fertilizer and methanol producers, to supply onsite gaseous oxygen and nitrogen for its phase three coal-to-chemicals project

5 Aug 2008

Kawneer Launches Website to Promote Sustainable Building Materials

As an expression of its long-term commitment to sustainability, Kawneer Company, Inc., the leading manufacturer of architectural aluminum building products and systems for commercial construction, has launched Kawneergreen.com

5 Aug 2008

Super Efficient Solar Cells Will Absorb So Much Light They Will Look Black

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently

5 Aug 2008

Future Solar Cells May Look Totally Black

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008