Posts Tagged clean energy

Adoption of Clean Energy Too Slow to Limit Global Warming

Posted by Leigh Kim in Energy news on April 20, 2013

On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that low-carbon energy development is progressing far too slowly to have any limiting effect on global warming. Governments are not taking quick enough action, and power generation is still dominated by the fossil fuel industry. Experts have warned that the goal of limiting the global temperature rise [...]

“Flammable Ice” Deposits Help Japan Meet Energy Needs

Posted by Mila Luleva in Energy news on March 13, 2013

Earlier this week, Japan announced that they were able to extract the so-called “flammable ice” gas from offshore methane hydrate deposits. Since the country is one of the biggest importers of gas, exploring such resource could be the key to resolving Japan’s energy problems. Flammable ice is a valuable replacement of oil and gas for [...]

Low-Carbon Hybrid Systems Key to China’s Future Energy Development

Posted by Mila Luleva in Energy news on February 10, 2013

In order to optimize any future energy development, China should integrate nuclear or renewable energy so that they bring down to a minimum the use of high-carbon energy resources. A recent study published in the first issue for the year of the journal Scientic Sinica Chemica, presents a low-carbon hybrid energy system, which provides a [...]

Apple’s Data Center and the Clean Energy Paradox

Posted by Leigh Kim in Biogas, Energy news, Solar Power on December 6, 2012

According to the North Carolina Utility Commission, Apple intends to double the amount of fuel cells it will use at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. In November, Apple filed to increase its fuel cell size but kept the endeavor completely confidential. Bloom Energy is installing 50 Bloom boxes for Apple to produce 10 [...]

Alternative Energy Sources May Reduce the Gulf States’ Reliability on Fossil Fuels

Posted by Leigh Kim in Energy news on November 27, 2012

The Gulf desert states are some of the largest greenhouse gas polluters in the world. Fossil fuels are consumed at record speed thanks to desalination, large-scale construction projects, and widespread air conditioner use. Projects fueled by the gas and oil industry also contribute to large scale fossil fuel consumption. To add insult to injury, Saudi [...]

New Sun-Powered Water Splitting Process Discovered

Posted by Leigh Kim in Hydrogen Power on November 22, 2012

Researchers have determined that water splitting can produce clean energy hydrogen and use small metal particles exposed to sunlight to perform the splitting. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory used gold particles less than one nanometer in size to increase hydrogen production, far exceeding the hydrogen production of other catalysts. Less than [...]

Confronting Climate Change: 9 Clean Replacement Technologies

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Climate Change on October 17, 2012

July 2012 was the hottest month ever recorded, and 2012 is becoming the hottest year since record-keeping began in the nineteenth century. Global climate change is here now; it is not only a harmful problem for future generations. And it is bound to grow worse if we continue to ignore it, to deny it, or [...]

Americans Willing to Pay Extra for Clean Energy, Study Says

Posted by Guest Contributor in Green Policy on May 15, 2012

Barack Obama’s January 2011 State of the Union address called for a National Clean Energy Standard (NCES) that would target having 80% of all energy sources in the US to be generated from green sources by 2035. The U.S. citizens are ready to pay the extra cost – as long as they will get green [...]

On-Plant Carbon Capture Much More Efficient Than Air Scrubbing, Study Says

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Pollution on December 13, 2011

To get rid of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, one sure way to go would be capturing the gas directly from the air. However, this is more of a challenge than would be capturing the carbon at the source of its emission, the power plant furnaces, say Stanford and MIT researchers. A similar study has [...]

Chinese Coal Producer to Harvest Clean-Burning Combustible Ice

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy news on November 24, 2011

As China expects a period of peak energy demand from 2020 to 2025, its largest coal producer, China Shenhua Group, now announced that it wants to start commercializing combustible ice, a gas hydrate (methane+water) found in the Qinghai province. The country first made public the discovery of combustible ice in May 2007, under the bed [...]

Obama Plans an $8 Bln Green Energy Budget for 2012

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green Policy on February 15, 2011

The Department of Energy has $29.5 available billion for the fiscal year 2012. About $8 billion would be invested in solar, wind and advanced batteries. “Whomever leads in the global, clean energy economy will also take the lead in creating high-paying, highly skilled jobs for its people,” the administration said about the budget.

Scatec Solar Plans Huge Solar Power Project for Iron County

Posted by Mike Sandru in Solar Power on February 9, 2011

Oslo-based Scatec Solar plans a new solar power project in Iron County, Expected to be the largest in Utah, the Norwegian company says the investment will be around $500 million. The photovoltaic panels will be placed across 650 acres in northwestern Parovan.

China's Ambitious Plan To Increase Renewable Energy To 500 GW By 2020

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green Policy on December 6, 2010

China has published an astonishing and ambitious plan for renewable energy increase for the next 10 years. The plan is to get not less than 500 GW of clean energy on the grid by 2020.

Hybrid Electric Tugboat Proving Capable to Reduce Emissions

Posted by Mike Sandru in Hybrid vehicles on November 26, 2010

Emissions reduction has been proven to be present even in the shipping industry, the clean energy sector. This time it’s about a hybrid electric tug boat, named Carolyn Dorothy, on which the University of California-Riverside has conducted a study whose end results show that the ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œlittle ladyÃƒÂ¢€ does indeed reduce emissions considerably.

Oregon Utilities Setting Target of Reducing CO2 Emissions 10% Below 1990 Levels

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green News on November 13, 2010

To decrease the amount of greenhouse emissions 10% below 1990 levels, Portland General Electric (PGE) in Oregon intends to replace coal plants with 2,362 MW wind energy systems and 557 MW of simple-cycle combustion turbines burning natural gas.