| MIT PROFESSOR TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF BIOFUELS |
| High oil prices, energy security considerations and fears about global warming have helped revive interest in renewable energy sources like biofuels, which burn cleanly and can be produced from plants. |
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| COULD WATER RUN YOUR MOBILE? |
| Canadian researchers have demonstrated a new way of producing electricity from flowing water which could provide power for anything from mobile phones to the national grid. |
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| WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES INTENT TO BUILD WORLD'S FIRST ZERO-EMISSIONS POWER PLANT. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCIENTIST CHALLENGES ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY TO BUIL |
| A long-time advocate and designer of zero-emissions power plants, Dr. Klaus Lackner was thrilled with President Bush's statement that the United States will sponsor a $1 billion, 10-year demonstration project to create the world's first coal-based, zero-emissions electricity and hydrogen power plant, but Lackner calls for an even larger vision. |
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| NEW SOLAR THERMAL PROJECT - WHAT A GAS! |
| Australian scientists have combined solar energy and natural gas in a novel process capable of producing large-scale energy to power the country's future industrial and domestic needs. |
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| 150-TON MAGNET PULLS WORLD TOWARD NEW ENERGY SOURCE |
| A 150-ton magnet developed in part by MIT engineers is pulling the world closer to nuclear fusion as a potential source of energy. |
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| WISCONSIN TEAM ENGINEERS HYDROGEN FROM BIOMASS |
| In the search for a nonpolluting energy source, hydrogen is often cited as a potential source of unlimited clean power. But hydrogen is only as clean as the process used to make it. Currently, most hydrogen is made from fossil fuels like natural gas using multi-step and high-temperature processes. |
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| GETTING POWER FROM THE MOON |
| If a physicist in Houston has his way you’ll be able to say good-bye to pollution-causing energy production from fossil fuels. In the April/May issue of The Industrial Physicist Dr. David Criswell suggests that the Earth could be getting all of the electricity it needs using solar cells – on the moon. |
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| BOOST TO SOLAR COMMERCIALISATION |
| Rooftop solar panels that produce electricity at a cost approaching that of coal could be available in as little as four years, says an Australian company. |
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| FUTURE ARMY COULD RUN ON ALTERNATIVE FUELS, PHOTOSYNTHESIS |
| Getting fuel to soldiers in the field has been a problem since machines replaced horses.
But according to a new report, by 2025 soldiers could make fuel and electricity where they are, instead of relying on long supply chains to transport energy to them. |
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| HIDDEN INFLOWS, OR WHERE THE BALANCE ENERGY GOES |
| The Sun and the Moon are the strongest sources of gravity force that makes huge volumes of sea and ocean water ebb and flow. But potential of flow energy is much higher than that of it produced now. So far it was unclear where the balance energy of ebbs and flows went. |
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