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Dept. of Energy beefs up electricity transmission with $60M
6 hours ago
by Camille Ricketts
The U.S. Department of Energy has been generous in its support for smart grid efforts this year, granting $3.4 billion to utilities to transition to a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid, and backing companies of all sizes making components and energy management systems to change the way America ...
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Department of Energy Launches Open Source Platform
12 hours ago
by Ellen Scott
Secretary Chu, of the U.S. Department of Energy, announced last Wednesday, December 9 th, that the department will be launching www.openEI.org. This website is an open source platform that will have the department’s data and resources accessible to the public. The launch of this website is in respon ...
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AltaRock Abandons Geothermal Energy Project at The Geysers
19 hours ago
by Steve
Since July, I have been studying and following the progress of a technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) as it has been tested by Sausalito-based AltaRock Energy at The Geysers, an active geothermal field just 12 air miles from my home in Northern California. A week ago, New York Times r ...
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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected
1 day ago
by BBVM
Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history, created an inadvertent laboratory to study the impacts of radiation — and more than twenty years later, the site still holds surprises. Re-inhabiting the large dead zone around the accident site may have to wait longer than expected. Radioactive Cesi ...
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