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4 hrs ago | The Denver Business Journal

NREL to test advanced vehicles

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden will test a fleet of advanced vehicles for research-and-development purposes, it was reported Friday.

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16 hrs ago | Happy News

Conference Panelists See Car Battery Breakthrough

The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, ...

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Fri Jul 25, 2008

KRDO-TV Colorado Springs

Hawaii gov. test-drives alternate fuel vehicles

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle is test driving some of the alternative fuel vehicles to be evaluated at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

Cbs4denver.com

Body Found Near DOE Compound On Orchard Mesa

Mesa County sheriff's deputies are investigating the discovery of a body near a Department of Energy compound on Orchard Mesa.

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Related Topix: Mesa County, CO, Orchard Mesa, CO

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Politicos' letter asks to le...

RIFLE, Colorado - Three members of Colorado's congressional delegation have asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to exclude lands on the Roan Plateau from an upcoming lease sale.

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Related Topix: Rifle, CO, Colorado, US Politics, Ken Salazar, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Colorado Government

Right Wing News

Wind Farms: Energy For The Future? No. Making T. Boone Pickens Richer? Yes.

Everywhere you look these days, you see billionaire oil magnate T. Boone Pickens promoting wind power as the answer to America's energy problems.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Immigration Reform

Thu Jul 24, 2008

The Post Chronicle

U.S., New Zealand Sign Clean Energy Plan

The United States and New Zealand committed to a plant that helps develop clean energy on island nations and territories, a U.S. official said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

KIVI-TV Nampa

Idaho team to study reuse of spent nuclear fuel

The U.S. Department of Energy says a team from the Idaho National Laboratory has been selected to devise a process to generate energy while destroying plutonium and other radioactive material from spent nuclear ...

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy

Las Vegas Sun

Read about the accident in the Sun's story for 1991.

Thu, Jul 25, 1991 A twin-engine helicopter crashed in a remote and rugged area of the Nevada Test Site, killing the five-man crew.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV

Wed Jul 23, 2008

PR-inside.com

Tire Kingdom Takes Tips from FTC to Improve Your Car's Fuel Economy

Cutting down on driving or buying a new hybrid car is simply not an option for everyone, so companies like Tire Kingdom, Merchant's Tire and NTB have created fuel saving packages that follow the Federal Trade ...

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Law, Law

Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Saving the resources

Gov. Linda Lingle burned fuel in the short term to try to increase Hawaii's power alternatives in the long term as she headed Tuesday for energy summits in the Bahamas and Colorado.

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Related Topix: World News, The Bahamas, Travel, Bahamas Travel, Hawaii Government, Hawaii, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

International Business Times

DuPont-Danisco to partner with U of Tenn project

DuPont Co. has joined a state initiative to build the first pilot-scale biorefinery in the U.S. that would take corncobs and switchgrass grown on Tennessee farms and convert the biomass into ethanol for fuel.

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Related Topix: Tennessee Government, Tennessee

Tri-cityherald.com

Historic Places: Doe sets meeting on Rattlesnake's listing

The Department of Energy has scheduled a meeting Wednesday on Rattlesnake Mountain and the eligibility of the federal portion of the mountain to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Fuelcellworks

Brookhaven Lab Chemist Radoslav Adzic Receives the U.S. Department of ...

Radoslav Adzic, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has received a 2008 DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award, which recognizes him for his "outstanding contributions in ...

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science

Tue Jul 22, 2008

Transform Magazine

Installation of Leading-Edge Data Analytics, Visualization Set for...

The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility , located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability ...

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Related Topix: Computers, Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing

PhysOrg Weblog

First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises

Under the STM tip a flake of graphene 50 microns long rests on a substrate of silicon with a thin layer of silicon dioxide insulation .

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, University of California System, UC Berkeley

EETimes.com

Nanotech applications in renewable energy draws new investor interest

The U.S. Department of Energy is making new efforts to attract entrepreneurs at early stages to commercialize renewable energy concepts, a DOE official said at the inaugural Nano Renewable Energy Summit on ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

Mon Jul 21, 2008

Star Tribune

Conference panelists see car battery breakthrough

The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, ...

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Minnesota Farm Guide

Study shows ethanol mix saving consumers money at the pump

Studies are showing states requiring ethanol in their gasoline mix are saving consumers money at the pump.

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Related Topix: United States Department of Agriculture, US News, Marshall, MO

The Baltimore Sun

Renewed reliance on coal causes concern

Its gray and black walls stretching to infinity, Latin America's largest coal mine resembles a miniature Grand Canyon.

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Related Topix: Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Global Warming

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