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July 26 2007
Queen's solar vehicle team unveils 11th vehicle Celebrating 19 years of solar vehicle excellence, Queen's University Solar Vehicle Team unveils its 11th solar vehicle. The solar powered vehicle is a single-person, three-wheeled car that features aerodynamic design, an upright seating position, and a newly designed carbon-fibre-aluminium composite chassis.
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July 25 2007
Canadian Government backs Biofuel Initiative The Canadian Government has given the green light for the ecoAgriculture Biofuels Capital (ecoABC) initiative, a four-year plan to boost farmer participation in the production of biofuels.
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June 08 2007
Government invests over $110,000 in renewable fuels in Ontario The Canadian government announces the investment of $110,174 for an innovative way to power greenhouse operations. Dave Van Kesteren, on behalf of the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister of the Canadian Wheat Board, made the announcement.
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June 01 2007
UNBF researchers achieve technology breakthrough in hydrogen storage Researchers at the University of New Brunswick have made a breakthrough in hydrogen storage.
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May 17 2007
Government invests over $718,000 in renewable energy production in Ontario Dean Del Mastro, Member of Parliament for Peterborough, on behalf of the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Agri Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, announces that the government will invest over $718,000 in six Eastern and Central Ontario organizations to help them participate in the emerging biofuels industry.
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April 20 2007
Government invests in renewable energy production in Ontario Joe Preston, Member of Parliament for Elgin-Middlesex-London, on behalf of the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, announces that Canada's government is investing $300,000 in three Ontario organizations to help them participate in the emerging biofuels industry.
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March 16 2007
UNBF researchers achieve technology breakthrough Researchers at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton have made a breakthrough in hydrogen storage. They have successfully condensed hydrogen gas into a usable solid under mild conditions.
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January 10 2007
Queen's solar project receives CSA certification The Canadian Standards Association has certified a solar hot water heater technology developed at Queen's University in partnership with EnerWorks Inc.
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November 07 2006
New $9 million UBC Centre launches to find energy alternatives Practical solutions to todays most urgent energy issues are the focus of the University of British Columbia's Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), which officially opened last week. It is Canadas only interdisciplinary facility dedicated to improving existing energy technologies and developing new sustainable sources of energy.
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August 29 2006
Champagne Cocktails and Ethanol Dreams Could your local gas station soon become your favourite watering hole?
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August 02 2006
Portable Bio-oil Production Last week, two researchers from the University of Western Ontario (London, ON) unveiled a portable technology that allows for the production of bio-oils.
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July 25 2006
Corn Used to Produce Energy Though corn stover is currently used to produce ethanol, researchers from Penn State University (University Park, PA) have discovered that it can also be used to generate electricity directly.
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June 30 2006
Producing Fuel from Sugar Pulling up to the gas pumps may soon become a sweet experience, now that a University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI) researcher has developed a method for making a chemical intermediate from sugar.
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May 31 2006
Liquid Crystals with High Metal Content Created A team of researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) (Raleigh, NC) has created liquid crystals containing high concentrations of metals, a development that could have a significant impact on semi-conductor and solar energy research.
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May 29 2006
Bacteria Produces Energy When most of us think of bacteria, we think of illness and infection. But our perceptions may change, now that two research teams have announced they are using the little critters to come up with alternative energy sources.
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May 15 2006
Toronto Transit Signs Biodiesel Deal The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) (Toronto, ON) and Suncor Energy Products Inc. (Toronto, ON) have signed a sales agreement through which Suncor will supply the TTC with biodiesel.
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April 24 2006
Cellulose Discovery Could Aid Biofuel Production A breakthrough in the understanding of cellulose fibres could lead to the design of energy-rich biofuels, according to a recent study.
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April 03 2006
Forest Biorefinery to Be Built in Maine The University of Maine (Orono, ME) (UMaine) has been awarded a $6.9-million research infrastructure improvement grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for forest bioproduct research and development.
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March 13 2006
One Step Closer to Hydrogen Fuel A major advance has been made in the effort to make hydrogen an effective fuel source for automobiles, according to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI).
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January 29 2006
Ethanol Could Lead to Big Energy Savings A new study is trying to settle the ongoing debate over ethanol-based fuels.
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October 18 2005
U.S. Nanomedicine Centre to Study Biobattery Production The U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Eye Institute has granted $6.5 million US for the development of four nanomedicine centres, one of which will be devoted to developing biobatteries for implantable medical devices.
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October 05 2005
New Research Plan Aims to Solve Energy Problems The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has aimed at using the power of microbes to solve ongoing energy and environmental issues.
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September 06 2005
Coal-powered Fuel Cell May Boost Fossil Fuel Efficiency Researchers at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) have developed a coal-powered fuel cell that could greatly increase the efficiency with which energy is extracted from the fossil fuel.
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July 25 2005
New Plan Could Spur Biofuel Commercialization The effort to bring biofuels to U.S. gas pumps has been bolstered by a recent report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a New York, N.Y.-based environmental action organization.
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July 05 2005
Study: Ethanol Fuel May Not Be Worth the Effort The direct and indirect environmental impacts of large-scale fuel ethanol production may outweigh the alternative fuel's benefits, according to a recently published study.
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October 04 2004
Car Exhaust Made Crystal Clear Researchers from the University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) have discovered that a type of crystal may help trap pollutants emitted through car exhaust.
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July 19 2004
NSERC/Petro-Canada Chair Named Petro-Canada (Calgary, AB) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Ottawa, ON) have teamed up again for the NSERC/Petro-Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for the Atlantic region.
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