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Carbon Capture

Luminant Makes $500,000 Contribution to University of Texas Carbon Management Program | EON: Enhanced Online News

... number of students and produces the most significant research results" Founded in January 2007, the program offers doctoral candidates an opportunity to conduct hands-on research in carbon capture and storage, a process that removes carbon dioxide from coal-fired flue gas and stores it safely underground. To date, 14 students have graduated from the program and 17 are currently participating. ...

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Climate Change

Britain ranks top risks posed by climate change

... LONDON — Britain says coastlines, wildlife and even the nation's most famous dish are under threat from climate change in its first-ever national assessment of likely risks. The 2.8 million pound ($4.4 million) study sets out the most pressing problems expected to affect the United Kingdom as a result of climate change. Britain's government said Thursday that higher temperatures could ...

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Solar

Obama looks to Mich. to revive clean energy debate - Yahoo! News

... of clean energy. I will not walk away from workers like Bryan." Without mentioning it by name, Obama appeared to be defending his administration's support of Solyndra LLC, the California solar panel maker that received a $528 million government loan but filed for bankruptcy court protection last year. Energetx is in a somewhat different situation than Solyndra but still must fend off ...

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Nuclear

US has arrested Iranian scientist - Yahoo! News

... the peaceful uses of atomic energy and has resisted United Nation demands that it abandon its extensive uranium enrichment efforts. Enrichment technology can be used to make fuel for nuclear reactors or fissile material for bombs. The U.S. and Israel, meanwhile, are believed to have recruited Iranian scientists as agents or encouraged them to defect. Describing the problems faced by Iranian ...

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Hydroelectric

Small Wash. town to track gunshots to nail gangs - Yahoo! News

... several high-tech data centers in the area, Mayor Jim Hemberry said. Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc. and Sabey Corp are among the companies drawn to the area by cheap, available power from hydroelectric dams. Law enforcement comprises about half the $3.5 million annual budget for the city. The city also has created a recreation department to build after-school programs for kids and is working to ...

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Coal

FirstEnergy closing 6 coal-fired power plants

... AKRON, Ohio — FirstEnergy Corp. said Thursday that new environmental regulations led to a decision to shut down six older, coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, affecting more than 500 employees. The plants, which are in Cleveland, Ashtabula, Oregon and Eastlake in Ohio, Adrian, Pa. and Williamsport, Md., will be retired by Sept. 1. They have generated about 10 ...

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Oil

No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'

... kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The word is "fracking" – as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock. It's not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Barack Obama didn't use it in his State of the Union speech – even as he ...

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Gas

No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking' - WSJ.com

... spelling used to make it look as offensive as people can try to make it look," said Michael Kehs, vice president for Strategic Affairs at Chesapeake Energy, the nation's second-largest natural gas producer. To the surviving humans of the sci-fi TV series "Battlestar Galactica," it has nothing to do with oil and gas. It is used as a substitute for the very down-to-Earth curse word. Michael ...

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Wind

Teaching the Volt to Charge Smarter and Cleaner - NYTimes.com

... 17 Volts. A demonstration is occurring this week at the 2012 DistribuTech Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. When a percentage of energy was derived from a renewable source like wind power, OnStar would receive a signal from P.J.M. Interconnection, a company that manages the electric-power transmission grid for numerous utility companies. The telematics system would then alert the ...

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Biofuels

Obama to propose tax credit for natgas trucks | Reuters

... was also to visit Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, where the Air Force is installing a one-megawatt solar array and where last year it test-piloted jets that run on advanced biofuels. Using domestic natural gas as a "clean" alternative to importing foreign oil has been heavily promoted by Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens and has attracted support from both sides of the ...

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Green Energy

Obama looks to Mich. to revive clean energy debate - Yahoo! News

... , a senior research specialist at University of Michigan . "I think the politics is what's driving almost this delusion of where the jobs are. If you want to tout the future of where green energy jobs are going, it's going to be garbage collection." Indeed, waste management and treatment is among the categories with the most "clean economy" jobs in the United States, according to a 2011 ...

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Alternative Energy

Obama looks to Mich. to revive clean energy debate - Yahoo! News

... government-assisted clean energy products often don't produce enough high-wage jobs to make it worth the money. "They must have had to look pretty hard to find someone working in alternative energy," said Donald Grimes , a senior research specialist at University of Michigan . "I think the politics is what's driving almost this delusion of where the jobs are. If you want to tout the future of ...

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Carbon Credits

World Bank sees carbon finance role for years | Reuters

... and programs which cut climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions in developing nations. Rather than lending or providing grants to projects, the bank's Kyoto funds contract to buy carbon credits generated by the emission reductions achieved by the projects, once they have been verified by a third party auditor. According to the bank, carbon finance enables project developers to leverage ...

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