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6.06.2013

Switchgrass Will Power Navy Jet Fighters With 95% Less Greenhouse Emissions

The more you poke at the Navy biofuel initiatives, the more you just seem to rile them up. Earlier this spring, for example, the Navy went ahead and announced a new round of $18 million in matching funds for four new biofuel pilot projects shortly after certain members of Congress tried to put a damper on its biofuel program. In the latest maneuver, today the National Renewable Energy Laboratory piled on with a press release … Read MoreSwitchgrass Will Power Navy Jet Fighters With 95% Less Greenhouse Emissions was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

$1 Billion Nuclear Power Plans Abandoned In Iowa

Plans for Iowa’s second nuclear power plant have been dropped by Mid American Energy. No design has been approved for the type of nuclear plant the company had intended, so they have let the idea go. It was reported that ratepayers will be refunded the $8.8 million they paid for a completed feasibility study. Sites not far from Council Bluffs and Davenport were being considered for the plant. The decreasing cost of natural gas, events … Read More$1 Billion Nuclear Power Plans Abandoned In Iowa was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

DOE Launches Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap For Project Developers

The US Department of Energy has launched an online geothermal regulatory roadmap to help streamline permitting and review for new projects.DOE Launches Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap For Project Developers was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

Researchers use Raman spectroscopy and STM to allow chemical mapping of molecules to 1nm resolution

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at China's University of Science and Technology has succeeded in developing a chemical mapping technique capable of revealing the constituent atoms of a single molecule. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they combined Raman spectroscopy with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to allow for chemical mapping of a molecule to a resolution of less than 1nm.

6.06.2013

Lithium-Sulfur Battery Race Heats Up

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are hot on the trail of a lithium-sulfur battery that packs four times the punch of conventional lithium-ion batteries. Given the low cost of sulfur, if the technology can be commercialized it would have a huge impact on the market for energy-storing devices powered by wind, solar or other forms of renewable energy. The low cost lithium-sulfur combo could also open up the electric vehicle market, and another project … Read MoreLithium-Sulfur Battery Race Heats Up was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

Hair sensor uncovers hidden signals

An "artificial cricket hair" used as a sensitive flow sensor has difficulty detecting weak, low-frequency signals – they tend to be drowned out by noise. But now, a bit of clever tinkering with the flexibility of the tiny hair's supports has made it possible to boost the signal-to-noise ratio by a factor of 25. This is turn means that weak flows can now be measured. Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology have presented details of this technology in the New Journal of Physics.

6.06.2013

Why Master Limited Partnerships Are A Lousy Policy For Solar, Wind, And Taxpayers

If you follow the renewable energy industry and haven’t been sleeping, then you’ve probably heard about one of the few pieces of federal legislation purported to help clean energy that’s actually moving: expanding Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to cover wind and solar energy. (H.R.1696) This is not a good thing. MLPs originated in 1986, when Congress decided that to allow certain businesses (oil and gas pipelines) to avoid paying corporate income tax.  These partnerships function … Read MoreWhy Master Limited Partnerships Are A Lousy Policy For Solar, Wind, And Taxpayers was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

EU Solar Anti-Dumping Case Great News For The Climate

This is a repost, first posted on Lenz Blog last September, when the EU anti-dumping investigations started. Now they have led to provisional anti-dumping duties, as Trade Commissioner van Gucht just announced. These start out at 11.8% tomorrow and will be raised massively to an average 47.6% two months later if there is no negotiated settlement in the meantime. The European Union Commission has initiated an anti-dumping investigation against solar panel imports from China, see their … Read MoreEU Solar Anti-Dumping Case Great News For The Climate was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

Low Cost EV Batteries Get A Hand From Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have discovered a pathway for developing low cost electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to a new generation of affordable EVs. The team has come up with a new nanostructured carbon-based catalyst that looks like something you’d mop up off the kitchen floor, but the important point is that it does not require platinum or other precious metals. When the new catalyst is paired with … Read MoreLow Cost EV Batteries Get A Hand From Carbon Nanotubes was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

6.06.2013

73% Of Americans Favour Investing In Public Transport With Their Tax Dollars

The Mineta Transportation Institute released a survey on Monday at the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) Annual Rail Conference that shows growing support for the expansion of the US public transportation system. The survey, entitled Americans Support for Public Transportation, shows that nearly 74% of survey respondents agree that their tax dollars could and should be used to create, expand, and improve public transportation in their community. This number is up from an already growing majority in 2012 … Read More73% Of Americans Favour Investing In Public Transport With Their Tax Dollars was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

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