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Magnetic Field Could Be Alternative Path to Fusion

January 25th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Michael

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Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion.

Nuclear Fusion could be closer to reality as magnetic fields can be used to produce energy.

Levitating magnet may yield new approach to clean energy (scienceblog.com)
Why fusion won’t provide power (metamodern.com)
Nuclear Fusion: The Z Machine Holds Promise for World’s Energy (grantlawrence.blogspot.com)
Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor (science.slashdot.org)
Toy train used to calibrate fusion reactor (mt-soft.com.ar)
Toy train used to calibrate fusion reactor (makezine.com)

Posted in: fusion, nuclear

Tags: fusion, nuclear, Physics

Shares in renewable energy make the turbines look and sound sweeter.

January 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Michael

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100 Percent Renewable? One Danish Island Experiments with Clean Power [Slide Show]: Scientific American.

One Danish island community owns shares in the wind turbines that meet their energy needs and also generates a check in real income.

Government Incentives Can Help Finance Energy-Efficient Home Improvements (scientificamerican.com)
‘Green News Report’ – January 5, 2010 (bradblog.com)

Posted in: Investment, Wind

Tags: Denmark, renewable, Wind, Wind turbine

George Soros to invest $1 Billion into Climate Fund

December 11th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Michael

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Copenhagen: Soros Proposes $100B Climate Fund. Soros will invest $1 billion of his own money into a fund for clean tech and green energy initiatives.

George Soros Hopes to Invest $1 Billion in Cleantech (takepart.com)
Ontario promotes green credentials to lure investors (thestar.com)
Green technologies in peril as rich nations dither on climate deal (guardian.co.uk)
Obama says energy projects put US back to work (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Cleantech is the Trendy Bandwagon, but it has Its Limits (siliconangle.net)
Video: Al Gore Praises the Copenhagen Conference (takepart.com)
Will Harper follow Obama to climate summit? (thestar.com)
Obama confirms attendance in Copenhagen (americablog.com)
goodmorning technology: CarGo – copenhagen city council (designboom.com)
Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Climate conference needs targets: Danish PM (cbc.ca)

Posted in: Investment

Tags: Business, Clean technology, Denmark

Super Kite Wind Turbine

December 9th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Michael

Superturbine: Taking wind power to new heights | GDS Publishing.

Combining kite power and wind power, this new contraption could provide a significant amount of clean energy.

GE chief hopes Copenhagen leads to US clean energy (sfgate.com)
Wind Energy Pioneer Answers Your Questions: Dale Vince in Guardian Q&A (treehugger.com)
Eminent Domain Week Continues: On New Ulm and Wind Space (blogs.wsj.com)
Kenyans plan a 300 MW wind and solar power project | Green Business | Reuters (reuters.com)
RES Canada Signs Turbine Framework Agreement for 5 Canadian Projects (newswire.ca)
Md. to buy wind and solar power from 4 projects (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Clipper Liberty Wind Turbine Projects Receive Debt Financing (prweb.com)
Transporting Wind Turbines by Ship (gcaptain.com)
New Wind Turbine Unveiled (prweb.com)
Chinese wind power companies target global markets (sfgate.com)

Posted in: Strange, Wind, aircraft

Tags: Energy, Wind, Wind power

Little Green Batteries

November 29th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Michael

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Paper-thin Batteries Made from Algae | LiveScience.

New biodegradable battery made from cellulose from what is a pest of an algae named Cladophora, an hairlike freshwater plant prevalent throughout the world, could bring innovative uses.

Troublesome green algae serve as coating substrate in record-setting battery (scienceblog.com)
Algae could be used in batteries (ubergizmo.com)
Paper Battery May Power Electronics In Clothing And Packaging Material (innovationtoronto.com)

Posted in: Investment, Strange, biofuel, economy, electric

Bloodhound supercar 1,000mph

November 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Michael

Bloodhound supercar scents a 1,000mph record for Britain – Times Online.

Anything this fast I think should be considered alternative energy.

Design fixed for 1,000mph car (news.bbc.co.uk)
Bloodhound engineers test-fire rocket for supersonic car (guardian.co.uk)
Rocket it and roll (news.bbc.co.uk)
Dilemma for Bloodhound supersonic car (guardian.co.uk)

Posted in: Transportation

Biotechnology for Biofuels

November 4th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Michael

From the website: “Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal featuring high-quality studies describing technological and operational advances in the production of biofuels from biomass.”

A few times a month this open access journal publishes scientific abstracts in advances of Biotechnology for biofuels and we will post links to them here on alt.energy review. The latest is from November 4th, 2009:

Laboratory-scale method for enzymatic saccharication of lignocellulosic biomass at high-solids loadings