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Solving the American Power Crisis: The Future of Grid Energy Storage
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… Read More
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Nevada Geothermal Power is Set to Boom into a $22.5 Billion Industry
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. Read More
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The Future of Power Quality: Addressing Our Aging Power Grid
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… Read More
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Town Plans To Generate Electricity From Trash
It has been done before but not on this scale! Scientist in Minoa, New York have created the first prototype for a small-scale co-digestor using human and food waste to generate electricity for its village. Read More
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CSU-Northridge Still Well Ahead of the Fuel Cell Curve
Faced with a growing population and evolving energy needs, Cal-State Univeristy: Northridge located in suburban Los Angeles built the world’s largest on-campus fuel cell plant. Read More
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Off the Grid at Heron’s Head Park
To some it's a sacred connection to ancestors and an opportunity to restore the land and traditional ceremonies; to those that participated in the decade-long planning and building of the solar generated Eco-Center it means serving and educating the public. Most of all, it means Heron's Head Park is… Read More
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Powering Airplanes With Leftover Tree Bark
Imagine proposing to Boeing or the US Air Force that they power their jets with bark. It might become a reality, a Professor with the University of Maine has successfully produced jet fuel from woody bio-mass, like tree bark, which has little or no commercial value. Read More
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American Clean Energy – It’s about time!
We send one billion dollars a day overseas to buy oil –often from countries that are hostile to America. If we develop clean energy sources here at home, that’s money we can invest in our own economy. Read More
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