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DuPont Opens North American PV Research Facility
Jun 15th
Published: June 15, 2010
Delaware, United States — DuPont opened a North American photovoltaic applications lab at its Chestnut Run facility in Wilmington, Delaware this week to support materials development for solar photovoltaic energy market. DuPont expects its photovoltaic sales to grow over 50 percent this year, and to exceed US $2 billion by 2014.
“DuPont is responding to the demand by collaborating with customers, governments and other stakeholders to deliver high-performance innovation that addresses head-on energy challenges today and into the future.”– Ellen Kullman, Chair & CEO, DuPont
The lab will accelerate introduction of new photovoltaic materials and engineering innovations by More >
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Loading ...NREL Launches Strategic Energy Analysis Institute (#JISEA)
Mar 19th
March 19, 2010
Colorado, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has established a new global institute dedicated to analyzing, speeding and smoothing the transition to sustainable energy worldwide. NREL Senior Scientist Doug Arent has been named executive director of the new Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) by its institutional partners, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and NREL.
JISEA will sponsor research combining the talents of scientists, financiers and other experts that will be placed in top peer-reviewed journals in various More >
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Just Released: “Clean Energy Trends 2010″ report by Clean Edge
Mar 16th
By GreenBiz Staff Published March 16, 2010
2009 will go down as one of the worst years in economic history. Overall venture capital spending fell to its lowest level in more than a decade. Initial public offerings (IPOs) in the U.S. continued at historic lows, with just 13 venture-backed IPOs in 2009 (up only slightly from a meager six venturebacked IPOs in 2008), according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. Once stalwart financial and market leaders crumbled under new harsh economic realities, with many shuttering their operations or surviving as a mere shell of their former selves. Governments around the world, More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...ARPA-E is UNDER funded to compete with China
Mar 10th
DAVID J. LEEDS 03 04 10
In the new energy race, China is not likely to blink an eye over the DOE’s new $400 million advanced research program for greentech.
After sitting through presentations from a “who’s who” of the energy world these past two days at the DOE’s inaugural ARPA-E Innovation Summit, any one of the more than 1,700 individuals in the room likely needed to call upon their deepest sense of equanimity or find the nearest cocktail bar.
On the one hand, it would be hard to rival, or argue against, the talent and commitment of the ARPA-E team, from Director Majumdar More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bill Gates Sinks $4.5M into ‘Transparent’ Climate Change Research
Feb 1st
February 1, 2010
Bill Gates is investing at least $4.5 million of his own money into geoengineering research, aimed at combating global climate change, with an emphasis on transparency, reports Wired. At the same time, in light of the hacked climate e-mails, a former Commander of the Pacific fleet is asking President Obama Administration to establish an independent panel to evaluate the link between climate change and security.
Administered by two high-level scientists at the forefront of geoengineering research, climate scientist Ken Caldeira, of Stanford’s Carnegie Department of Global Ecology, and physicist David Keith of the University of Calgary will decide which technologies More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...$122 mil DOE RFP: Fuels from Sunlight, R&D Hub
Jan 4th
The U.S. Department of Energy requests proposals for the Energy for Innovation Hub – Fuels from Sunlight. The purpose of the Hub will be to assemble the most talented scientists and technologists to focus intense research and development efforts on the development of an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system. The system should operate at an overall efficiency and produce fuel of sufficient energy content to enable transition from bench-top discovery to proof-of-concept prototyping.
$122 million expected to be available, 1 award anticipated.
A Letter of Intent is strongly encouraged but not required and is due 1/29/10, final proposals due More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...U.S. renewable energy lab sets up world’s tenth fastest supercomputer
Dec 23rd
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 04:20
The supercomputer was built on the design principles and successes of earlier machines such as ASCI Red from the
mid-1990’s and the Red Storm from early 2000. Photo from N.R.E.L.
The United States’ National Renewable Energy Laboratory will utilize the tenth fastest supercomputer in the world for its Sandia National Laboratory facilities.
U.S. renewable energy lab sets up world’s tenth fastest supercomputer.
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