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Joseph J. Romm – Biography

Early life and career Romm was born and grew up in Middletown, New York, the youngest of three sons of Al Romm, a newspaper editor at the Times Herald-Record, and Ethel Grodzins Romm, an author, retired project manager, and former CEO of a technology company. Romm’s brother David was the host and producer of Shockwave [...]

EDF Energies Nouvelles – History

EDF Energies Nouvelles traces its origins to its predecessor company, SIIF Energies. SIIF was founded in 1990 by Pâris Mouratoglou to develop small scale hydroelectric and solar projects in France and its overseas territories. In 1999 SIIF expanded into developing wind power, which rapidly became its dominant business. In 2000 EDF purchased 35% of the [...]

Net energy gain – Sources of energy

The definition of an energy source is not rigorous. Anything that can provide energy to anything else can qualify. Wood in a stove is full of potential thermal energy; in a car, mechanical energy is acquired from the combustion of gasoline, and the combustion of coal is converted from thermal to mechanical, and then to [...]

Energy storage – Storage methods

*Chemical **Hydrogen **Biofuels **Liquid nitrogen **Oxyhydrogen **Hydrogen peroxide *Biological **Starch **Glycogen *Electrochemical **Batteries **Flow batteries **Fuel cells *Electrical **Capacitor **Supercapacitor **Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) *Mechanical **Compressed air energy storage (CAES) **Flywheel energy storage **Hydraulic accumulator **Hydroelectric energy storage **Spring **Gravitational potential energy *Thermal **Ice Storage **Molten salt **Cryogenic liquid air or nitrogen **Seasonal thermal [...]

Timeline of the future in forecasts – Top 12 areas for innovation through 2025

This list is part of research and consulting firm Social Technologies technology foresight project, published as an press release in 2007. * Personalized medicine ** creation of an individual’s genome map for a retail price of less than $1,000 ** correlation of specific genes and proteins with specific cancers, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and diabetes, which [...]

Idaho National Laboratory – Current Research

Nuclear Energy Projects Many projects and experiments have taken place at Idaho National Laboratory and continue to do so. The lab’s relationship with federal and state governments, other national labs, universities from across the country, and collaboration with foreign researchers make INL an integration hub as well as a research laboratory. INL works in partnership [...]

Renewable energy policy – Biofuels

Mandates for blending biofuels into vehicle fuels have been enacted in 17 countries at the national level and at least 36 states/provinces. Most mandates require blending 10–15 percent ethanol with gasoline or blending 2–5 percent biodiesel with diesel fuel. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Renewable energy policy, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. [...]

EDF Energies Nouvelles – Introduction

EDF Energies Nouvelles is a French renewable energy corporation, half owned by French electric utility Électricité de France. It was formed in 2004 from its predecessor SIIF Energies and was floated on the Paris stock exchange in 2006. EDF En is primarily involved in the production of wind power in Europe and the United States, [...]

Home fuel cell – Introduction

Alternative Fuel

home fuel cell, also called micro combined heat and power (microCHP) and microgeneration, is a residential-scaled clean energy system. A home fuel cell is an alternative energy technology that increases efficiency by simultaneously generating power and heat from one unit, on-site within a home. This allows a residence to reduce overall fossil fuel consumption, reduce [...]

DuPont Experimental Station – Introduction

Alternative Fuel

The Experimental Station marked its 100th anniversary in 2003. It was founded as an effort to move the DuPont Company from gunpowder and explosives into the new age of chemistry.[1] The site overlooks the original powder mills upon which the company was founded – now Hagley Museum and Library, a nonprofit educational institution documenting the [...]

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