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Seth Dunn is not alone in his expedition to ground zero of the hydrogen economy: hundreds of scientists, politicians, investors and journalists have visited Iceland over the past year to learn about that nation's plans.
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ENS) – A unique process of biomass energy production will be used in a demonstration plant planned for Western Australia. The facility will turn a variety of eucalyptus trees known as mallee trees into energy, high value activated carbon and eucalyptus oil.
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ENS) – Windmills on Toronto's waterfront will soon be a reality after the government announced its approval for an innovative project that will allow the public to invest directly in green power.
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A new Hemispheric Sustainable Energy Fund will help prepare and define sustainable energy projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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ENS) – World Energy Alternatives, the largest primary biodiesel supplier in the country, has built its customer base with virgin soy biodiesel, the fuel the company says is the most mature and widely recognized type of biodiesel. Now, after four years of research and development, World Energy supplies biodiesel made from every available feedstock, including reclaimed restaurant oil.
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Sweden's National Energy Administration said on Tuesday it was investing $3 million in a project to examine the health risks from burning biomass.
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The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories will buy wind-generated electricity in an effort to encourage the wind power industry in New Mexico, labs officials announced Tuesday.
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FuelCell Energy Inc. of Danbury, Conn., has earned an important vote of confidence on its road to being the first company to sell individual fuel cell power plants to industrial customers.
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A rapidly growing multinational company competing in advanced technology markets has inaugurated in Montreal what it says is the largest commercial solar research, development, and manufacturing facility in North America.
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Plans are underway for the world's longest solar race, the American Solar Challenge, to be held in mid-July 2001 along U.S. Route 66, which runs from Chicago to Los Angeles. The 2,300-mile race will be open to solar-powered cars built by university teams, companies, clubs and individuals worldwide.
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The French government hopes to reduce the cost of storing and destroying ground-up animal carcasses by using them as a source of fuel, an official heading efforts to dispose of the banned animal feed said on Friday.
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ENS) – The use of renewable energy to generate electricity will grow slowly over the next 20 years, with most of the growth coming from states that have enacted renewable portfolio standards, shows an energy outlook from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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ENS) – Renewable energy will be the fastest growing source of power over the next 20 years, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The bad news is that the combined share of the energy mix from solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy sites will rise to only 3% by 2020 from its current level of 2%.
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Reuters) – European Union Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said yesterday he would put forward proposals to allow generous state aid and tax incentives to promote renewable energy schemes.
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Reuters) – The world's first commercial wave power station has started operations on the small Scottish island of Islay, operators Wavegen said yesterday.
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Cuba is seeking foreign partners to invest in biomass electricity generation projects that would use sugar cane residue left over from the island's sugar industry.
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The Fall 2000 edition of Fuel Cells 2000's Fuel Cell Directory is now available.
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Automaker Volkswagen unveiled its first fuel cell-powered car at the recent opening of the California Fuel Cell Partnership's new headquarters in Sacramento. The car, called the Bora HyMotion, carries 50 liters (13.2 gallons) of liquid hydrogen to fuel a 75-kilowatt (100 horsepower) engine. The Bora model is commonly known as the Jetta in the United States.
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In an effort to streamline biomass technology, the U.S. Department of Energy has added the National Bioenergy Center to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. The center will serve as a biomass clearinghouse for science and industry.
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Sweden's third-largest city, Malmo, won a European Union award for creating a community drawing entirely on renewable energy, Swedish utility Sydkraft said yesterday.
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Customers of renewable energy electricity can have their name etched on a wind turbine in California. The Adopt-A-Wind Turbine Program is open to all flat rate plan customers of TenderLand Power Company who want to have their name placed on one of the towers being installed as part of the Alta Mesa Wind Energy Project in Palm Springs. The 10 megawatt expansion of the wind project will result in the installation of 70 turbines.
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Taiwan's government and civil groups should do more to adopt renewable energy, President Chen Shui-bian told a group of German higher education institutions yesterday.
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Different technologies for powering environmentally friendly electric cars will co-exist in the future rather than compete, officials of Ford Motor Co. and Canadian fuel cell developer Ballard Power Systems Inc. said.
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Canada's Hydrogenics Corp., whose test stations are used by General Motors Corp., the U.S. Army and others to measure fuel cell performance, set terms yesterday on an initial public offering.
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The sun is rising on a new era of energy sources as the sun sets on this Palm Springs, Calif., wind farm. Engines race in Europe's lines for dwindling gasoline supplies, but the energy industry and its backers are listening to something else — the whoosh of wind turbines and the gentle whir of fuel cell engines.