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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

Sustainable Cooling in Brooklyn from Big Ass Fans

Big Ass Fan Company, contributing to the country's growing movement towards sustainability, has found itself in a position to move air in an unlikely venue, a Brooklyn Catholic Church

4 Aug 2008

Mythic Paint Make Air Quality List With Environmentally Friendly Credentials

South Coast Air Quality Management District Includes Mythic Paints on their Super-Compliant Coatings Manufacturers List

4 Aug 2008

Students Honored for Participation in Environmentally Focused Internship and Education Program

Forty local high school students graduated from the 27th annual ExxonMobil Green Team program on August 1, equipped with newfound knowledge and an appreciation for the environment and going green

4 Aug 2008

Contract for More Efficient Production of Biofuels Like Ethanol and Butanol

UMBI has received a three-year subcontract award from the University of California at Berkeley to develop more efficient ways to convert lignocellulose to biofuels such as ethanol and butanol

4 Aug 2008

Scripps to Use Buoy Mounted Sensor to Monitor Acidic Ocean Water

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego plans to purchase and deploy an autonomous buoy-mounted sensor to study the effect increasingly acidic ocean water could be having on ecosystems in the California Current

4 Aug 2008

Faster, Cheaper, More Accurate Analysis of Crude Oil Petroleum Data

As gas prices soar, scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University are marketing research that will enable petroleum companies to locate, analyze and process crude oil much faster, cheaper and more accurately

4 Aug 2008