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Weather Favors Installation of Pipes for Stanford Energy System Innovations Project

News - 29 Mar 2014

Normally, drought is a bad thing – except when it accelerates construction that has sometimes proven disruptive to the Stanford community. Thanks to favorable weather, the Stanford Energy...

NSF Center to Study Effect of Atmospheric Particles on the Environment and Climate

News - 10 Sep 2013

Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla will today announce a five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative program of research and education on how interactions...

Importance of Energy Efficiency Discussed at 24th Annual Energy Efficiency Forum

News - 17 Jun 2013

Public and private sector leaders exchanged ideas yesterday to address the importance of energy efficiency in a changing economy at the 24th annual Energy Efficiency Forum, co-hosted by Johnson...

Novel Device Cuts Emissions from Lawnmowers

News - 14 May 2013

Inspired by two of their fathers, who work cutting lawns and driving a truck, a team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students have created a device that attaches...

CO2 Can Be Captured More Economically Using Waste Heat

News - 30 Mar 2013

In some of the first results from a federally funded initiative to find new ways of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants, Rice University scientists have found that CO2 can be...

U.S. May be Able to Reduce Petroleum Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 80% by 2050

News - 19 Mar 2013

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles -- cars and...

China CleanTech Index to Launch Today

News - 6 Sep 2011

The China CleanTech Index is to be launched at a conference in Xiamen, Fujian Province this morning by a leading Australian research company. The Index will, for the first time, provide a complete...

Artificial Leaf Turns Sunlight into Liquid Fuel For Vehicles

News - 5 Nov 2009

Scientists are making progress toward development of an "artificial leaf" that mimics a real leaf's chemical magic with photosynthesis - but instead converts sunlight and water into a...

Man Made Global Warming Has Overtaken 2000 Years of Natural Cooling

News - 4 Sep 2009

Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years, new research indicates. The study, which incorporates geologic records and computer simulations,...

More Funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers

News - 9 Aug 2009

In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for...