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Making Charge Stations Pretty
Stylish charging stations is a
step toward getting consumers to accept EVs

April 30, 2012 The Technology Review - GE's Wattstation electric-vehicle charging station went on sale this week. The most notable thing about it is its appearance. Unlike many other charging stations on the market now, this one isn't ugly. It looks like the sort of thing you might want to plug a $40,000 electric car into.  Read More

 

Renewable Energy's New Rising Sun

April 30, 2012 The Technology Review - Japan is a laggard on renewable energy, ranking well below the top 10 countries in both annual installations of renewable equipment and total renewable generating capacity. That, however, is set to change under a new energy policy that's been taking shape since last year's meltdowns at Fukushima.  Read More

 

Carbon Sequestration in Illinois

Feb. 23, 2012 - from News Bureau Illinois, Carbon capture and sequestration, refers to technology attempting to prevent release of large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Carbon Sequestering
The process is based on capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources andstoring it where it will not enter the atmosphere. One of these methods is to inject it into the ground. Read More

Court To Ban Fracking In Small Town

Feb.24,2012 - from Eric Niiler, Discovery News.
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has been linked to everything from polluted water to earthquakes but the rush toward developing the practice hasn't slowed much. A state judge ruled that the town of Dryden, N.Y., could prohibit fracking as part of its zoning ordinance. It's one of 30 towns throughout central and southern New York that done this. State environmental officials in New York placed a moratorium on fracking while they come up with new regulations to cover oil and gas drilling in the underground geological deposits.          Read More

 

New Apple HQ to be really green! Promising New Biofuel Identified
Apple Space Ship
Feb.24, 2012 - from Zac Colbert. Last year, the late Steve Jobs revealed plans for Apple’s new ‘Spaceship’ building to be located in Cupertino City, California. The futuristic structure should be completed in 2015 and will house approximately 13,000 employees.

Feb. 23, 2012 - from David A Gabel. Biofuel production has ratcheted up to become a major part of America's energy and agricultural industries. Corn, or maize, is by far the most widely grown crop to be converted into ethanol. However, the dominance of maize in the biofuel industry is not without its pitfalls. Now, researchers from the Uni-

It may look like it’s been plucked from the imagination of Philip K Dick, but what was previously the realm of science fiction has now become science fact. It promises to be one of the most technologically advanced offices in the world, being totally self-sufficient for power with the national grid acting only as backup. Read More versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have identified a temperate-tropical maize hybrid that can potentially revolutionize biofuels in this country. The maize hybrid has the potential to increase ethanol production for each unit of plant material, and minimize the environmental cost of biofuel production.   Read More

 

Stories Making Environmental News
• Wind Energy for the Big Apple • An End to the Grid?
• Fraking Quakes - Industry Shakes • Seattle Likes Clean Air 
• Photosynthesis: Future Fuel  • Uranium Mining Banned in Grand Canyon
• Harvesting Heat   • Yes, We Could Have Have No Bananas Headphones
• China's Solar Machine  • Transmission Line Breakthrough
• Solar Cells Bright Idea  • Hydrogen Gas Making Speed Demon
• Practical & Affordable Ethanol • GE Invests in Solar Thermal Company
• "Cleaner Coal" Suffers Setback  • Pipeline Leak Danger Lurks
• All the Panels Fit To Print  • Fusion Energy Finally?
 

Ongoing

• Electric Vehicles: Myth Vs Reality • Ontario: Feed In Tariffs
   Finance Renewable Energy
• Greenest Cars For 2012 • Solar Highways- Win Win  videoCamIcon
• SolarPowered Desalination • What Ever Happened to Those
   White House Solar Panels?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Southwest Florida News

• The Fight to
   Pave the Everglades
• Oil Drilling - Energy or False Hope?
 
• LNG Coming to
  Tampa Bay
• Slime-Dunk for Polluters
 
• Build the Everglades Skyway
 
• Florida Needs a New
   Clean Water Act
• Clean H20 for the Everglades
 
• SW Florida Intl. Airport Recognized
   for Environmental Achievement
• Florida
  Environmental Issues
• Gulf Coverage by
  NaplesNews.com
• Green Slime and the EPA
 
• Shrimp in the Gulf -
   Oily Warning
• Tampa Restricts Nitrogen-
  based Fertilizer Usage
• Gulf Spill News • S.W. Florida Action
  
• Fly Ash in Lakeland, Fl

 

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Environmental News Archives

Story
Date
Story
Date
• Power-Scavenging Batteries
8/25/11
• Can the U.S. Rare-Earth
    Industry Rebound?
10/29/10
• New CAFE Standards:
    Automakers Are Affected
8/22/11
• 70 MPG, Without a Hybrid!
10/25/10
• GE Invests in Solar Thermal
8/8/11
• U.N. Trouble with Agreements
   on Endangered Species
10/22/10
• Electric Car Swap
   Stations for Israel
8/8/11
• Cheap Diesel-Powered Fuel Cells
10/21/10
• Energy-Harvesting CRTs  
7/16/11
• China's Greener Future
10/15/10
     
• Largest PV Roof In North America
6/23/11
• Nanotech and
   Solar Cell Efficiency
9/30/10
• GE Funds 10 Energy Startups
6/23/11
• Lobbying Against Climate
9/27/10
• Can Canadian Tar Sands
   Be Made Less Dirty?
6/16/11
• Ethanol Car Wins
   Automotive X-Prize
9/16/10
• Electric Buses Get a Jump 
6/16/11
• Turning Exhaust Gas Into Fuel
9/15/10
• Combining Wind,
   Natural Gas & Solar
6/7/11
• European Low Fuel Diesel Hybrids
9/8/10
• Nighttime Electricity From SolarVideo Cam
6/3/11
• Texas: Cheap Wind Power
8/10/10
     
• How Green is Natural Gas?
 
5/6/11
• European Low Fuel Diesel Hybrids
9/8/10
• Electricity From Waste Heat
5/6/11
• Australia Attempts to Ban Coal
7/23/10
• U.S. Largest Solar Plant
   Planned in California
4/14/11
• Nanopillars that Trap More Light
7/16/10
• UG99 Wheat Threat
3/31/11
• $400-M Boost for Abound Solar
7/14/10
• Chevy Volt's Battery
   Capacity Could Double
2/12/11
• Solar Aircraft Technology News
7/12/10
• Climate Change
   Causing Migrations
2/7/11
• A New Bloom for Algae
7/2/10
• Solar Power Vs the Oil Field
2/5/11
• Solar's Great Leap Forward
6/28/10
• USMC Solar Panels Cut
   Fuel Use About 90%
1/11/11
• How the GDR Promotes Renewables
6/28/10
     
• Honda Tests Fuel-Efficient Jet
1/5/11
• Nanotubes Give Batteries a Jolt
6/24/10
• Smarten that Smart Grid
12/22/10
• Geothermal Plant Gets Funding
6/18/10
• Deepwater Wind
12/20/10
• Where Are Those Cellulosic Biofuels?
6/04/10
• No Bull: China Puts
   Cow Dung To Work
11/22/10
• Reinventing the Gas Engine
6/02/10
• Solar Arrays Do Double-Duty
11/15/10
• Western U.S. Grid Can
   Handle More Renewables
5/27/10
• Turbines Could Tap
   the Power of the Mississippi
11/5/10
 
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From the Venice (FL) Gondolier Dec 29, 2010