Posts Tagged ‘Research’

There’s a tank behind every tractor a bomb behind every energy breakthrough. Sixty-five years after the Allied forces victory over the Axis, we live in a high-tech world made possible by amazing wartime innovations. This month RT’s Technology Update looks at how the ingenuity of the World War II era saved lives then, and continues to shape lives today.

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(1/27/10) Barack Obama–State of the Union: “To create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies.”

Background Article:

“Obama Said to Seek $54 Billion in Nuclear-Power Loan Guarantees”: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a44IdhfYkf2s

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At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists and engineers are working to improve the solar cell to allow us to capture more of the sun’s energy. Read more: http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2010/news100208.html

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April 1, 2009 – Dan Arvizu, director of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discusses the current state of renewable energy technology and implementation in the U.S., as well as potential advancements in the near future. The Energy Seminar meets during the academic year on Wednesdays, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. For a listing of upcoming Energy Seminar talks, please visit the events listing at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.

Stanford University

http://www.stanford.edu

Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford

http://woods.stanford.edu

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

http://www.nrel.gov/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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World Community Grid http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org teams up with Harvard’s clean energy Project to find the next generation of organic solar cell materials and develop more affordable solar energy technology for everyone. Learn how your computer’s unused processing power can help with this important quest.

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