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Energy News- Past Decade was Warmest on Record, According to Scientists in 48 Countries August 4, 2010In an ongoing global warming trend spanning 50 years, each of the past three decades has been warmer than the previous one, with the past ten years the warmest on record, according to a report recently released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. […]
- U.S. Wind Power Installations Fall to 2007 Levels in Q2: Report August 4, 2010The American Wind Energy Association has reported that the capacity of new wind power installations fell to 2007 levels in the second quarter of 2010. […]
- DOE Offers $17 Million Loan for Battery-based Energy Storage in New York State August 4, 2010DOE has offered a $17 million conditional commitment to AES Energy Storage to help balance loads on New York's electrical grid. This is DOE's first loan guarantee of a battery-based energy storage system. […]
- Past Decade was Warmest on Record, According to Scientists in 48 Countries August 4, 2010
- Renewable Energy
- Renewable Energy at Work in War ZonesParticipant in NREL's executive leadership class aims to bring solar and wind energy to Afghan farms; researchers advise military on powering bases. […]
- NREL Solar Technology Will Warm Air at 'Home'Transpired solar collector technology developed at NREL boosts the efficiency of the new Research Support Facility on the Lab's campus. […]
- NREL Scholarship Gives Columbine Grads a BoostTen years ago, in the wake of tragedy, NREL set up a fund to help students at Columbine High School. The investment still pays dividends. […]
- Renewable Energy at Work in War Zones
- Energy And The Environment
- EPA POSTPONES SYRACUSE MEETING ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING STUDY, NEW DATES COMING SOON August 10, 2010(NEW YORK, NY) After months of work organizing the New York Hydraulic Fracturing public meetings, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Syracuse meeting, originally scheduled for this Thursday, August 12th at the Oncenter Complex Convention Center, has been cancelled […]
- CHANGE OF VENUE: EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Public Meetings Moved to Oncenter Complex Convention Center in Syracuse, New York; Same Times, Same Day, Different City August 9, 2010New York, NY - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved its three public meetings on its hydraulic fracturing study to the Oncenter Complex Convention Center in Syracuse, New York. The date and times of the three meetings remain the same: the 3 sessions will be held 8 a.m […]
- NEW JERSEY LANDFILL OWNERS AGREE TO COMPLY WITH CLEAN AIR ACT; New Landfill System Maximizes Gas Collection for Potential Energy Recovery August 9, 2010[…]
- EPA POSTPONES SYRACUSE MEETING ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING STUDY, NEW DATES COMING SOON August 10, 2010
- Energy Research
- Alaskan research is a new frontier for ORNL ecologist August 11, 2010If anything could lure Stan Wullschleger to the frozen reaches of Alaska, he always figured it would be his love of mountaineering. […]
- First LCLS results document single-shot imaging August 11, 2010In the first published scientific results from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), an international collaboration led by Nora Berrah and Matthias Hoener of Western Michigan University (WMU) tested the concept of single-shot imaging by blowing apart nitrogen molecules with shorter and shorter bursts of intense x-rays. […]
- Ames Laboratory scientists develop real-time vertical engineering design software August 11, 2010Researchers at DOE???s Ames Laboratory recently won a 2010 R&D 100 Award for a software application that helps create high-resolution, real-time, 3-D computer simulations, called osgBullet. […]
- Alaskan research is a new frontier for ORNL ecologist August 11, 2010
- Agriculture
- Ditching Phosphorus RunoffRead the magazine story to find out more. ARS soil scientist Ray Bryant (left) and University of Maryland colleague Arthur Allen have found that an underground curtain of synthetic gypsum, a byproduct of scrubbing sulfur from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, can filter phosphorous from water that runs off agricultural fields. Click the image for m […]
- Flower-Dwelling Yeast Licensed for Use against Scab DiseaseRead the magazine story to find out more. ARS and Ohio State University have granted a license to Sci Protek, Inc., of Visalia, Calif., for a yeast C. flavescens that tolerates fungicide and which could become part of a control program for Fusarium graminearum, the fungus that causes Fusarium head blight ("scab") in grain. Click the image for more […]
- Scientists Develop Sustainable, Environmentally Friendly Potting MediumRead the magazine story to find out more. ARS and their university cooperators have developed a new type of sustainable and environmentally friendly potting medium made from thinned pine trees. Click the image for more information about it. Hot water treatment eliminates Rhizoctonia from azalea cuttings Mississippi blues ... blueberries, that is USDA o […]
- Ditching Phosphorus Runoff
- Food, Drugs And Health
- FDA: Salmonella risk from frozen rodents fed to reptilesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning U.S. and international customers who may have purchased frozen mice, rats and chicks from Biggers and Callaham LLC, dba/MiceDirect.com, that these products, which are used as food for reptiles, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. […]
- FDA Seeks Injunction Against Colorado Manufacturer of Cultured Cell ProductThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking an injunction in federal court against Regenerative Sciences LLC, of Broomfield, Colo., citing violations of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) that cause its cultured cell product to be adulterated. The product is also misbranded due to the lack of adequate directions for use and the failure to bear t […]
- FDA Issues Assessments of the 510(k) Program and Use of Science in Decision-MakingThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued two comprehensive evaluations containing recommendations that address three key objectives of the agency’s public health mission as it relates to medical devices – foster device innovation, create a more predictable regulatory environment, and enhance device safety. […]
- Statement by Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs on the Reopening of Florida State Waters to Commercial FishingWe are pleased to be able to support the state of Florida as it reopens state waters off Pensacola to commercial fishing. Through close coordination with our state and federal partners, we are confident all appropriate steps have been taken to ensure that seafood harvested from the waters being opened today is safe and that Gulf seafood lovers everywhere can […]
- Statement by Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, on the Reopening of Some Mississippi State Waters to Commercial FishingWe are pleased to be able to support the state of Mississippi as it reopens state waters in the Mississippi Sound, from the mainland to the barrier islands, to commercial fishing. Through close coordination with our state and federal partners, we are confident all appropriate steps have been taken to ensure that seafood harvested from the waters being opened […]
- FDA: Salmonella risk from frozen rodents fed to reptiles
Fuels From Sunlight
It would seem that the sun is one of the only places to take advantage of nuclear fusion.
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The Department Of Energy the creation of the Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub to develop revolutionary methods of generating fuels directly from sunlight. The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), led by the California Institute of Technology in partnership with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will operate the initiative. JCAP will bring together leading researchers in an effort to simulate natural photosynthesis for practical energy production. The goal is to build an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system before moving the system from the discovery phase to a commercial scale. To fulfill its mission, the hub will receive up to $22 million in Fiscal Year 2010, then an estimated $25 million per year for the next four fiscal years.
Research will be directed at finding the functional components needed to assemble a complete artificial photosynthetic system, including light absorbers, catalysts, molecular linkers, and separation membranes. The hub will then integrate those components into an operational solar fuel system and will develop scale-up strategies to move the product from the laboratory to commercial viability. The ultimate objective is to move from fundamental to applied research and technology development, setting the stage for a direct solar fuels industry. If successful, the concept—to combine sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make a clean fuel—would be an energy sector game changer. DOE’s Office of Science will oversee the project. The Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub is the second of three such interdisciplinary hubs that will receive funding in FY 2010. In May, DOE announced that a team led by DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will establish a hub on modeling and simulation for nuclear reactors. The selection for the remaining hub will be announced in the coming months.