Renewable Energy

NASA is running tests to see if jet fuels that include biofuel from camelina plants will impact contrail formation and decrease aviation’s environmental impact.

More than 1.3 million acres of Midwest grasslands have been lost as demand for biofuel feedstocks prompts conversion to corn and soybean crops, researchers say.

A bipartisan effort takes shape in Washington to make all that cool research into renewable energy (and other stuff) available to all for free.

After a year of testing at full scale, Neptune says its Proteus vertical-axis turbine within a duct doesn’t work, and the U.K. company enters liquidation.

Floating wind turbines could very well be coming to the deep waters well off Maine’s coast after state regulators approve a Statoil pilot project.

Belgium says it wants to build an offshore island with a below-sea-level reservoir in the middle that would be used to store power from offshore wind turbines.

The PTC expiration and continued falling costs pushed the U.S. wind industry to install nearly 13.2 gigawatts of new capacity in 2012, shattering the old record of 10 GW.

Hot rock doesn’t always come with permeability or water, so developers are using enhanced geothermal systems to create new energy sources.

Lux Research says the hydrogen economy envisioned by fuel cell boosters is likely to be curtailed by high capital costs and cheaper alternatives.

The fiscal cliff deal includes a production tax credit for wind for facilities that are under construction before the end of 2013.

A recent survey says Danes who live near wind turbines overwhelming have few problems with the giant power generators.

Apple Insider uncovers a patent application by the computer company for a system to convert wind energy into heat in order to store the energy for later use.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and specialty chemicals company Johnson Matthey say they’ll work together on slashing the cost of nonfood-based biofuels.