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Carbon-neutral Way to Power Your Home - 2009-02-12
A super-efficient system that has the potential to power, heat and cool homes across the UK is being developed at Newcastle University. It works by burning vegetable oil to power a generator and provide electricity for the home.

Types of Solar Power - 2009-02-12
"According to the American Solar Energy Society, a minute's worth of sunshine provides enough energy to power the earth's needs for a year. So then, what's the problem? Translating the laws of physics into practical applications often turns out to be as challenging a task as is the task of discovering those same laws."

Ancient Soil Replenishment Technique Helps in Battle Against Global Warming - 2009-02-12
The potential of biochar lies in its ability to sequester-capture and store-huge amounts of carbon while also displacing fossil fuel energy, effectively doubling its carbon impact," said Steiner, a soil scientist whose research in the Amazon Basin originally focused on the use of biochar as a soil amendment. At UGA's Biorefinery and Carbon Cycling Program, he now investigates the global potential of biochar to sequester carbon. He also serves as a consultant to the UNCCD, a sister program to the climate change convention.

Mow Your Gas: The Ethanol of the Future - 2009-02-12
Imagine a day when you or your local landscaping service uses your lawn clippings and organic table scraps to produce gasoline for your car. The newest ethanol technologies, often lumped under the name cellulosic ethanol, can make that thought a reality.

Biodiesel in the Pacific Northwest - 2009-02-12
"Recent growth in the Pacific Northwest biodiesel industry owes much to the research on biofuels spurred by the twin oil price hikes of the 1970s. Low oil prices throughout the 1990s slowed, but did not totally halt research and development efforts. Today's successful companies turned that research into practical applications employing several different production technologies and distribution plans. Two companies currently in production and distribution, Sequential Biofuels, based in Portland, OR, and Imperium Renewables, based in Seattle, WA, demonstrate the scalability of biodiesel business models, making them amenable to rural and urban locations."

'Green' Gasoline on the Horizon - 2009-02-12
"University of Oklahoma researchers believe newer, more environmentally friendly fuels produced from biomass could create alternative energy solutions and alleviate dependence on foreign oil without requiring changes to current fuel infrastructure systems. According to Lance Lobban, director of the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, the development of "green" fuels is an important part of the worlds, and Oklahomas, energy future."

The World's First Green Dryer - 2009-02-03
Guest Editor Emily Rutan explains the first major green appliance that runs quickly and efficiently through the use of hydronic power.

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