Just skip the messy chemical stuff. The device created by University of Miami Physicist Stewart E. Barnes, of the College of Arts and Sciences and his collaborators can store energy in magnets rather than through chemical reactions. Like a winding up toy car, the spin battery is "wound up" by applyi...

The Sierra Club and its clean energy allies in Nevada won twin victories when two proposed coal plants in the state were scrapped in the last month. On February 9, a three-year Sierra Club campaign concluded successfully when NV Energy called off plans to construct the Ely En...

I don't get to brag on my fellow Kentuckians nearly as often as I would like. However, last week Representatives John Yarmuth and Ben Chandler stood up against Mountaintop Removal in sponsoring the Clean Water Protection Act. That's one reason to cheer. And they're not the only ones from the Bluegra...

BOSTON (March 11, 2009) -- In most discussions of energy and climate, coal figures prominently as one of the villains. Burning coal is responsible for more than a third of all energy-related U.S. carbon dioxide emissions and 80 percent of those from electricity production. It is also one of the larg...

A shakeout may be underway for the solar sector, but one manufacturer, Norway-based NorSun, has just made a deal that could help carry it through the downturn. The company has raised 1.15 billion NOK (about $163 million) to expand its production of silicon wafers and ingots for high-efficiency solar...

energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...

ROCKVILLE, MD (MARKET WIRE) MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "Corn Prices To Hit The US Ethanol Market Hard," to their collection of Ethanol market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/redirect.asp?progid=67618&productid=2068194...

In January during a U.S. Senate hearing on TVA's December coal ash spill in Kingston, California Democrat Barbara Boxer was leading calls for the mega-utility to come out of the disaster as a leader in green power research. At the same event Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander looked like he was pl...

Having displayed a clean pair of heels to his rivals in storming to victory on his maiden appearance in the Florida Winter Tour earlier this year, Jack Hawksworth maintained his stellar form as he kicked his 2009 European campaign into gear too – by claiming the runner-up spoils amongst a field th...

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