]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/research Blog Articles Tagged with 'research' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189840?rsstype=tag&tag=research The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is calling for US Federal policies to nurture the biobased chemicals and plastics industry in the US as a means to offset the two-decade-long shift of the industry away from the US and towards the Middle ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189840?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:24:21 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189842?rsstype=tag&tag=research Drivers of alternate fueled vehicles, hybrids and fuel-efficient, gasoline-powered cars will have two opportunities to test their vehicles at the 6th Annual Green Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, NY on 8 May. This year, organizers are offering the event's... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189842?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:23:28 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189844?rsstype=tag&tag=research A research team from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany has found that deceased solar activity until the end of this century would only slightly scale down the global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189844?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:33:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190165?rsstype=tag&tag=research A new Gallup poll shows that compared to three years ago, twice as many Americans believe that global warming's consequences are exaggerated.And in just the last year, there has been an increase in skepticism from 41% to 48%.The chart above shows a n... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190165?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:06:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190040?rsstype=tag&tag=research You can't save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was.The general pointlessness of DST was the subject of a Rachel Maddow interview Friday (video below) with the ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/190040?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:44:57 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189883?rsstype=tag&tag=research Earlier in the week Barry Ritholtz posted this chart from Bronson Capital Markets Research. It shows 139 years of nominal returns for equities (probably somewhat familiar to you) along with 139 years of real returns.The real return component is calle... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/random-rogers-big-picture/189883?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:26:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189852?rsstype=tag&tag=research Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway and other Marine and Navy leaders recently toured technical demonstrations by nearly 30 commercial vendors at the first Experimental Forward Operating Base (ExFOB) at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Conway has... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189852?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/190218?rsstype=tag&tag=research Think of electrons as flotsam on a wave as it moves across the surface of the ocean. That's how scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describe a previously unknown phenomenon, which they are calling thermopower waves. A ther... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/190218?rsstype=tag&tag=research Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189970?rsstype=tag&tag=research Our friends at the Mid-South Chapter of the National Algae Association are holding another seminar. This time the talk will be Algae: Mining Wastewater for Nutrients, Fuel, and Fertilizer at the Holiday Inn Research Center in Huntsville, Alaba... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189970?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:26:27 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189971?rsstype=tag&tag=research There's only one week left to get the early registration discount for the Ethanol 2010: Emerging Issues Forum. The event will be held at the Magnolia Hotel on April 8 and 9 in Omaha, Nebraska. The fifth annual forum features a number of experts on to... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189971?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190166?rsstype=tag&tag=research pineapple.jpg First there were sunspots. Then cosmic rays. Now comes the latest proof being trotted out by the climate denial crowd pineapples.Swedish Scientist Nils-Axel Morner is claiming ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/190166?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:03:10 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189857?rsstype=tag&tag=research RWE Effizienz GmbH; Renault Deutschland AG; the automotive engineering research company Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen (fka); and the Institut f r Hochspannungstechnik (High-Voltage Engineering Institute) of RWTH Aachen University ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189857?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:55:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/190033?rsstype=tag&tag=research I ran across this blog entry from the San Francisco Chronicle that was written by Dr. Peter Gleick, who is the president of the Pacific Institute. According to their website, the Pacific Institute is a nonpartisan research institute that works...... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/190033?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:34:33 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189861?rsstype=tag&tag=research Chemists from Emory University and the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry have developed a stable and fast homogeneous water oxidation catalyst (WOC), considered a crucial component for generating hydrogen using only water and sunlight, that is e... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189861?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:17:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189862?rsstype=tag&tag=research R.W. Beck, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Golden Field Office to support The Office of Energy Efficiency and ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189862?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189976?rsstype=tag&tag=research When discussing indirect land use it brings a popular saying to mind: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Only in this situation the saying should be modified as follows: If a tree is cut down in... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189976?rsstype=tag&tag=research Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189977?rsstype=tag&tag=research Everyone needs an excuse to go to Italy and now you have one Solarexpo. Solarexpo in an international conference and expo on renewable energy and distributed generation. The event will be held on May 5-7, 2010 in Italy and as part of the event, i... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/domestic-fuel/189977?rsstype=tag&tag=research Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:39:41 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190122?rsstype=tag&tag=research Two weeks ago I reported that white-nose syndrome had been documented in Hellhole Cave Virginia's largest and most important cave home to half of the world's remaining population of endangered Virginia big-eared bats. I also pointed out tha... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190122?rsstype=tag&tag=research Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:36:15 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190123?rsstype=tag&tag=research Ah, Home Star the legislative proposal that has eaten all my time over the last six months. What more is there to say? Creates jobs! Slashes energy use! Saves money!All of that was said today and more, during a hearing in the Senate Energ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/190123?rsstype=tag&tag=research Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:40:53 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189864?rsstype=tag&tag=research A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a chemical process for the hydrolysis of biomass into sugars for subsequent processing into fuels and chemicals that delivers sugar yields approaching those of enzymatic hydrolysis. In an ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/189864?rsstype=tag&tag=research Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:54:39 -0500