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Audi tested Joule's latest version of its bio-ethanol. Test results were conclusive: unlike fossil fuels, fewer emissions are generated when they are burned.
As California runs low on potable water amidst a severe drought that has led to forest fires and idle farmland, desalination and drip irrigation could help.
The Kemper plant gasifier technology is very different. It can convert low quality brown coal into into synthesis gas, while removing 65 percent of the CO2.
Houston's future is coming into sharp focus as Dow Chemical begins to build a new research campus where 2,000 employees will push the limits of innovation.
The Barefoot College in India runs solar workshops for 100 rural grandmothers, so that they can return to their villages to build solar panels and lanterns.
Royal Dutch Shell just introduced a motor oil made from natural gas using its PurePlus Technology at it’s $19 billion Pearl Gas-to-Liquids facility in Qatar.
With growth similar to the early days of mobile phones, d.light serves over 40 countries through over 10,000 retail outlets, selling 6 million solar products.
With a surging economy and corporations scrambling to find enough technologists, Houston created its own STEM graduates, by starting the Energy Institute.
The US Geological Survey just released the first publicly available interactive map showing 47,000 onshore wind turbine locations across the United States.
This month, after spending five months doing the final hookups, Royal Dutch Shell started production at its Olympus platform, the company's largest floating deep-water platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Department of the Interior gave Seattle-based Principle Power a green light to submit plans to site five of their WindFloat turbines off of Coos Bay, OR.
Kidwind has trained over 7000 teachers, who have imparted these lessons to more than 500,000 students, who have built over 50,000 experimental wind turbines.
Anyone can spot energy trends since the US Energy Information Administration has unveiled a new mapping tool that shows the locations of US oil and gas wells.
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