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1. Solving the American Power Crisis: The Future of Grid Energy Storage

   Clif Arness | Posted July 26, 2010 in Renewable Energy Campaign

   Electricity, that wonderfully efficient medium for distributing power, has a behavioral quirk imparted by natural law: you can’t save it. This simple fact dictates the way we generate electricity and also poses a problem effectively using some forms of renewable energy. A myriad of new technologies under development may help both traditional and renewable generating sources by providing cost-effective, large-scale energy storage for the electric power grid.

2. Nevada Geothermal Power is Set to Boom into a $22.5 Billion Industry

   Johnny Kilroy | Posted July 22, 2010 in Renewable Energy Campaign

   Nevada's geothermal energy is poised to make a significant contribution to America's renewable energy future, as a potential $22.5 billion industry over the next three decades.

3. The Future of Power Quality: Addressing Our Aging Power Grid

   Clif Arness | Posted July 20, 2010 in Renewable Energy Campaign

   Power quality - or, simply, the usability of electric power - is a vital concern to many commercial businesses and industries. The proof is a rapidly growing global market for products to correct or improve power quality that will top $11 billion in 2011. The manufacturers of these products have reason to smile, because the outlook for improvement of the power quality in the U.S. is not very rosy.

4. Quantum Well Solar Cells May Revolutionize Solar Technology

   Marianne Lynch | Posted July 8, 2010 in Renewable Energy Campaign

   By the end of 2010, a new breed of solar cell will hit the market. These new cells may very well revolutionize the solar industry, combining record-breaking efficiency with an ultra-tiny footprint.

5. Green School Leads and Teaches by Example

   Shawn Drury | Posted June 28, 2010 in Renewable Energy Campaign

   If there is a public building in Pennsylvania that wants to call itself the “Greenest” in the state, it will have to work hard to beat Green Valley Elementary school in Sinking Spring.

6. Fungal Fuels - Scavenging Green Energy from the World’s Waste

   Roby Duncan | Posted June 25, 2010 in Renewable Energy Campaign

   By extracting cellulase enzymes from fungus and mixing them with a liquefied wood pulp, sugar can be produced. Add that sugar to yeast, ferment, and you have fungal ethanol, or myconol as some like to call it. Best of all, you don’t need specific crops to produce it: any waste cellulose will do.

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