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Source: Voice of America
Author: Jessica Berman
2/14/2008

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. have developed a “nano-generator” fabric containing zinc oxide nanowires that can potentially convert low-frequency vibrations into electricity. Researcher Zhong Lin Wang said, "This particular work is about how do we develop a new methodology, new technology, that can harness from wind blowing, your body movement, this kind of mechanical, low frequency energy.” According t… Continue

Ethanol has been getting a lot of flack lately from those that think the only way to make the biofuel is from corn, one of America’s primary foods. Therefore, ethanol production for fuel will take food off of tables of American families. The vision of ethanol powered ca… Continue

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has raised the renewable fuels standard (RFS) this year to 7.76%. RFS determines the amounts of non-petroleum fuel in vehicles. The adjustment was dictated by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) that was signed into law last year.

Last November, the EPA announced an RFS of 4.66%, which mandated at least 5.4 billion gallons of renewable fuels be mixed into the nation's transportation fuels this year. However, the new law forces the EPA to… Continue

Four countries, four cities and five corporations have signed up with the Climate Neutral Network in an effort to become carbon neutral and fight climate change.

The Climate Neutral Network was launched in Monaco last week by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The Network is an Internet-based project that is planning to enlist countries, local governments and organizations to become carbon neutral.

The plan is to add more organizations and eventually people to the project. The group behind t… Continue

General Electric forecasts its wind turbine business will have revenue of approximately $6 billion in 2008. The company has purchase orders for its turbines extending all the way to 2010, which by the way is past the expiration date of the US tax credit for new turbine construction projects.

The economics for large-scal… Continue