Data centers need a lot of energy. Dairy farms create a lot of methane. Now a team from HP Labs has done the math to show that one could be used to support the other. The research appears in a paper presented today at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Conference on Energy Sustainability [...]
The national energy company of Greenland, Nukissiorfiit has started an exciting project, called H2KT that are to enable increase in the use of renewable energy in Greenland. The H2KT-project are to establish a hydrogen and fuel cell plant in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, in order to demonstrate and gather the first operation experience of [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today reaches a milestone for the Energy Star program by passing the 1 millionth Energy Star qualified home mark. With more than 15,000 partners in sectors all across the economy, Energy Star has been enormously successful at saving consumers money by reducing the energy usage of products used in the [...]
The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $155 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for 41 industrial energy efficiency projects across the country. These awards include funding for industrial combined heat and power systems, district energy systems for industrial facilities, and grants to support technical and financial assistance to [...]
The skills and technologies to reinvigorate the UK economy and help its transformation to a low carbon future provided the focus for a recent visit by Pat McFadden MP, Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, to BOC’s Wolverhampton Technology Centre today.
Do you have the game changing solution for climate change, the next renewable energy source, human-powered appliance or breakthrough use of nano-technology? If you have created a product or service that will improve energy efficiency or will add to the renewable energy industry you should join The Carbon Economy Summit, November 18th in Washington DC.
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WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has identified 79 proposed surface coal-mining projects in Appalachian states for further, detailed reviews of their pending permits. The extended reviews will be carried out under an enhanced coordination process between EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers developed under an interagency Memorandum of Understanding [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership recognized six supermarkets last week for reducing their use of greenhouse gas refrigerants that deplete the Earth’s ozone layer and contribute to climate change. The Price Chopper store located in Colonie, NY received the Best of the Best award, which is given to the single store [...]
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from power plants. The process could directly replace current methods and allow power plants to capture double the amount of harmful gases in a way [...]
ARPA-E Encouraging Full Proposals for Transformational R&D
Washington, DC – The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy has completed the evaluation of the Concept Papers received in response to its first Funding Opportunity Announcement released April 27, 2009. ARPA-E reviewed approximately 3,500 Concept Papers submitted for this FOA (DE-FOA-0000065).