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The Ten Essential Renewable Energy News Stories This Week
California is building a zero-carbon city, Ford is staking its business future in electric and hybrid vehicles, and Iberdrola is planning to build Europe's largest on-shore wind farm.These are just the...
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Electrofuels Headline New $106 Million Round of U.S. DOE Funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded US$106 million in funding to 37 cleantech projects [pdf]. read more
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The New Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center: Pushing Solar Tech
The timing could not have been more perfect for the opening of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center, which opened on the institute's campus last past week.read more
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The Ten Essential Renewable Energy News Stories This Week
News from the Gulf of Mexico this week has centered around the issue of transparency. The U.S. government, scientists, and the media have continued their effort to pry valuable inforamtion and footage...
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Hybrid Vehicle Conversion Start-Up Readies for Production
A new clean tech company founded by a team of MIT graduates will soon be converting commercial fleet vehicles into electric hybrids. The company is scheduling tests with customers and aims to start...
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User Controls Increase Lighting Efficiency
These days a lot of the energy-efficiency news in lighting centers around new lighting sources such as CFLs or LEDs. But some researchers at MIT have focused on another aspect of lighting efficiency:...
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1336 Technologies Receives $28.4 Million Investment
large Comprised of a team of MIT scientists, 1336 Technologies has developed a process to produce silicon solar wafers at a cost that will make photovoltaic solar energy equal in price or cheaper than...
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MIT Using Viruses to Assemble Solar Nanotubes
Image courtesy MIT Energy Initiative, Solar Futures ProgramAt the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers have taken a page from sci-fi author Michael Crichton (Prey) and are using...
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MIT, Boston College Deliver Super-Efficient STEGs
Solar hot water system, image courtesy Water Tube Boiler System DesignA collaboration between researchers from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Boston College has delivered a solar...
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The HIRIKO Project – The All-Electric, Sharable Folding City Car of the Future
Image courtesy of the HIRIKO ProjectThe HIRIKO Project is an urban solution that will provide a more sustainable, more accessible electric vehicle. The HIRIKO prototype was unveiled at the European...
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