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Hydropower Supply Approved for Alcoa's Wenatchee Smelter

Alcoa has announced that the commissioners in Public Utility District Number One of Chelan County (PUD) approved a 17-year power agreement that is the linchpin to assuring the long-term survival - and an increase in production - at the Alcoa Wenatchee Smelter in Wenatchee, Washington, USA.

9 Dec 2007

Alcoa Breaks Ground on New Can Reclamation Facility at Tennessee Operation

Alcoa has announced that it has broken ground on a new $22 million project at its Can Reclamation facility at its Tennessee Operations. Improvements include a new crusher and delacquering furnace and supporting building enclosures, utilities and environmental systems.

9 Dec 2007

Shopping for "Green Fashion" Advice

Shopping for “green fashion” can challenge even an expert in textiles and clothing, as University of Maryland American studies professor Jo Paoletti is discovering this holiday season. She’s accepted an...

9 Dec 2007

Lasers Bring Cleaner Diesels Engines

Measuring soot formation in a diesel engine is far from easy. Due to the turbulent environment in the combustion cylinder, no two combustion cycles are the same. Furthermore, the measurements are difficult to reproduce as the pressure at which fuel is injected into the cylinder causes an extra source of turbulence. Bougie made his measurements in a glass cylinder with an engine adapted for this purpose.

9 Dec 2007

Applied Materials Named Green Energy Innovator of the Year

Applied Materials, Inc. has announced it was named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for its pioneering work on the Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line, at a gala presenting the prestigious 9th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards.

6 Dec 2007

Alcoa Supports Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Project to Build Green Affordable Housing in New Orleans

Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation have announced support for Brad Pitt’s "Make It Right" (MIR) project to build green affordable housing on a large scale to help victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Loui...

6 Dec 2007

Dow Announces New Insulation Technology

Dow Building Solutions announced today that it has developed a next-generation foaming agent technology that will allow it to manufacture STYROFOAM R5/inch insulation with a zero ozone-depletion factor and cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half for North America.

6 Dec 2007

Laser Technologies to Analyze Combustion, Biofuels

Let’s say a fuel derived from biomass produces too much soot when it’s burned in a combustion chamber designed for fossil fuels.

6 Dec 2007

Toyota Announces Groups Selected for 2007 Environmental Activities Grant Program

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced today on its website the 27 organizations to receive grants from the FY2007 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program, who will receive a total of 160 million yen.

6 Dec 2007

Clean Indoor Air in Schools

With more than 53 million children spending a significant portion of their day in the classroom, poor indoor air quality can pose health risks in schools for both students and staff and lead to asthma attacks, decreased performance or diminished concentration.

6 Dec 2007

Climate Change Will Accelerate Bird Extinctions

Where do you go when you've reached the top of a mountain and you can't go back down? It's a question increasingly relevant to plants and animals, as their habitats slowly shift to higher elevations, drive...

6 Dec 2007

NREL Pledges to Cut Carbon Footprint, Impact on Environment by 75 Percent

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent from 2005 to 2009.

6 Dec 2007

New Oil-Repelling Material from MIT - Many Applications

MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils. The material, which can be applied as a flexible surface coating, could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup.

6 Dec 2007

Bali 2007 Climate Change Warning Issued by Scientists

More than 200 leading climate scientists have today warned the United Nations Climate Conference of the need to act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with a window of only 10-15 years for global emissions to peak and decline, and a goal of at least a 50 per cent reduction by 2050.

6 Dec 2007

Concentrated Solar Energy Reverses Combustion

Using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

6 Dec 2007