Environmental News Network

Pa. Makes $1M Available To Small Businesses To Improve Energy Efficiency, Prevent Pollution
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Americans Warming To Nuclear Power - MIT Survey
Americans' icy attitudes toward nuclear power are beginning to thaw, according to a new survey from MIT. The report also found a U.S. public increasingly unhappy with oil and more willing to develop alternative energy sources like wind and solar. Moreover, the national survey of 1,200 Americans' opinions on different types of energy indicated growing concern about global warming -- but an apparent reluctance to pay to fight it. >> Read the Full Article
Shell's Eureka Film - Utter Greenwashing or Interesting Progress?
A while ago I got a copy of Wired Magazine with an interesting DVD inserted into the package. It turned out to be a highly polished 10-minute advertisement/film for Shell entitled "Eureka". You can watch the whole thing yourself below. >> Read the Full Article
New Method Makes Ethanol From Wheat
In a finding that could help put wheat alongside corn on the menu of biofuel sources, researchers from The University of Manchester in the UK and Greece report development of a new method for producing ethanol from wheat. >> Read the Full Article
New Solar Technology Sets World Record
A US solar technology company announced today that its photovoltaic technology achieved a world record for the conversion of solar light to power efficiency. >> Read the Full Article
Pratt & Whitney Hires New Tech Expert To Cut Greenhouse Gasses
Pratt & Whitney has hired an MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics to lead strategy and technology development programs aimed at improving environmental performance and reducing impact on the environment. >> Read the Full Article
Wave-powered Electricity and Desalination
New technology may make it much easier to make freshwater from ocean water and generate electricity in the process. The technology, called SEADOG is about to begin intensive tests for the next three months in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas coast. The project is being done in cooperation with Texas A&M University Marine Engineering Technology Department. >> Read the Full Article
A Look Inside Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive
Toyota's nationwide tour of hybrid technology gives consumers a hands-on experience of hybrid technology. >> Read the Full Article
Compters Aid Green Trucking
A new online search portal will allow trucking companies to increase their fleet efficiency by helping shippers and carriers to achieve higher equipment utilization rates. The information within the website helps to minimize the number of empty miles traveled by allowing shippers and carriers to identify the most efficient combination of freight loads and available trucks. >> Read the Full Article
Solar Power Breakthrough
Nanotech materials - made from bits of materials in the dimensional realm of 1 -100 nanometers (nm)(nm= one billionth of a meter) - are in the early stages of offering breakthrough opportunities in energy storage and conversion of one form of energy to another - sunlight to electric power for instance. >> Read the Full Article