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News stories that we cover that relate to technologies in our Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies listing.

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2009

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  BREAKING / Top 100 / Featured: Fuel Efficiency > Engines > MYT >
  MYT engine to be demonstrated to Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) - Inventor Raphial Morgado has been invited as a guest speaker a the Oregon chapter of SAE to discuss and demonstrate his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine next March. Also working on building 5.5-inch versions to demonstrate this 40x power-to-weight ratio engine. (PESN; Nov. 19, 2009) (Comments)
  

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  Top 100: Solar > PV > Plastic Cells > Konarka >
  Konarka and Arch Aluminum & Glass Announce Unique Solar Curtain Wall Pilot Project - This will be the first curtain wall pilot project to integrate Konarka Power Plastic into a wall structure. The wall solar panels will generating 1.5 kilowatts of power to the facility, and are expected to be fully operational by year’s end (Business Wire; Nov. 10, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Solar > Concentrated > IAUS >
  Ryan Davies Finds Hot Technology; Produces Solar Power for Half the Price - A shining example of using the sun's energy to heat, cool and light the homes and businesses of a desert community in California is poised to power up next year. It's due in part to the emergence of a technology that uses refraction rather than reflection to produce solar power on a utility-size scale at half the price of photovoltaic technology. (IB Times; Nov. 5, 2009)
  

• Top 100: EVs > Tesla Roadster >
  EV record: Tesla Roadster travels 313 miles on a single charge - The Tesla Roadster has set a new distance record for a production electric vehicle, topping its own previous record of 241 miles on the course. The milestone took place during the 2009 Global Green Challenge in Australia where eco-friendly vehicles have been battling it out. (GizMag; Oct. 28, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Nuclear > Fusion > Focus Fusion >
  Focus Fusion 1 successful test announced - After seven years of theoretical work and raising money, five months of design, five months of construction and assembly, and a week of testing, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics now has a functioning dense plasma focus, Focus-Fusion-1. Eric Lerner receives energy research award. (PESN; Oct. 28, 2009) (Comment)
  

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  Featured: Geothermal >
  Marshall Hydrothermal System for Harnessing Deep Sea Vents (Interview) - Bruce Marshall has filed a patent for a hydrothermal system that would harness the vast energy available from deep sea hydrothermal vents in which water seeps into near-surface magma, where it is continuously heated and ejected through vents at around 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot water and minerals would be brought to the surface to turn turbines. (PESWiki; Oct. 22, 2009) (Comment)
  

• Top 100: Storage / Solar Hydrogen / Electrolysis > Nocera >
  Splitting Water to Store Solar Energy - MIT professor Daniel Nocera earlier worked on a catalysts that can divide water molecules which can be utilized to store energy. Daniel Nocera has established a company named as Sun Catalytix to give his dreams a concrete shape. He envisions low-cost Solar electrolysis procing hydrogen, stored in tanks, to run a fuel cell on demand, (Alt Energy News; Sept. 30, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Wind > Offshore \ Largest >
  Denmark Brings World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Online - Denmark is launching the world's biggest offshore wind farm this week. Using 91 turbines scattered across 35 square kilometers, the Horns Rev 2 farm, built by Danish utility company Dong Energy, will be able to produce 209 megawatts of power – enough for a staggering 200,000 homes. (Inhabitat; Sept. 16, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Hydrogen > Blacklight Power >
  Relativistic hydrogen inside a Casimir cavity appears to have a fractional quantum state from an external perspective - Rowan University recently announced validation of excess heat generated by off-the-shelf chemicals in a recipe provided by Black Light Power, implying an unknown mechanism beyond chemical but less than nuclear. Much of the controversy has revolved around claims of a fractional quantum state where the orbital radius drops below the Bohr radius. (ScienceBlog; September 11, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Solar > Largest / Thin Film > First Solar >
  Chinese solar plant expected to be the biggest - Arizona company, First Solar, which makes more solar cells than any other company, said it struck a tentative 10-year deal to build a 25-square mile solar plant in China's vast desert north of the Great Wall, generating 2 gigawatts of electricity -- enough to power 3 million homes. (Salt Lake Tribune; Sept. 8, 2009)
  

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  Featured / Top 100: Storage > Batteries > Sodium Sulfur >
  Ceramatec Revolutionizing Energy Storage Technology - A company in Salt Lake City is receiving widespread coverage for developing a battery system based on sodium sulfur for residential and commercial applications that may make energy storage much easier and more economical providing the tipping point to make renewables feasible. (PESWiki; August 25, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Hydrogen / Plasma > Blacklight >
  Blacklight gains academic nod for controversial hydrogen technology - BlackLight Power has this week had its technique for generating hydrogen fuel from water independently validated by US-based Rowan University. The firm has also posted two research papers, designed to help non-believers confirm the viability of its approach. (BusinessGreen; Aug. 14, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Hydrogen / Plasma > BlackLight >
  BlackLight Power signs sixth utility deal to produce power from water - BlackLight has landed a commercial licensing deal with Maryland-based utility Akridge Energy. This is the sixth such contract for the company, which claims to have technology capable of generating energy using only water. (Venture Beat; July 30, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Storage > Capacitors > EEStor >
  Who Killed the Electric Gas Tank? - A somewhat skeptical look at EEStor, which says they can make "power storage devices" (not technically batteries, more like peculiar capacitors) that can hold 10x more power than advanced lithium ion cells. These "electrical energy storage units" will be lighter than the most advanced batteries in the world, can charge in minutes and will last forever. (The Oil Drum; July 15, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Biofuel > Algae > OriginOil >
  OriginOil announces breakthrough process for live algae oil extraction - OriginOil, Inc. announced that it has succeeded in extracting algae oil on a continuous basis without cell sacrifice. This new ‘milking’ process will join the company’s Cascading Production™ technique to create a combined cycle promising new efficiencies. (BusinessWire; July 27, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Solar > Concentrated / Stirling Engines > SES
  SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production - Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar worked jointly and have come out with their device called SunCatchers(TM) that will be utilized on commercial-scale by 2010. The SunCatchers have precision mirrors attached to a parabolic dish to focus the sun’s rays onto a receiver. It is lighter and require much less water for cleaning. (Alt. Energy News; July 21, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Solar > eSolar >
  ESolar expects to start up its large solar thermal plant soon - Patterned after the software startup model--selling a sophisticated computer program that drives cheap, commodity hardware, eSolar and its power plant operating partner, NRG Energy, have announced agreements with three electric utilities to install 500 megawatts of thermal solar capacity over the next few years. (MIT Technology Review; July 07, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Solar > Concentrated >
  AORA hybrid solar provides baseload, community power - Israeli company combines a modular concentrated solar tower technology with other heat sources to enable its plants to be baseload capable, providing utility power needs 24/7/365. Each 'solar flower' is designed to produce 100 kW of electricity as well as 170kW of thermal power, targeting community-sized production. (PESWiki; July 3, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Events > Breakthrough Power >
  Video Report: Breakthrough Power Presentation at SJSU - On April 2, Jeane Manning, Joel Garbon and Sterling Allan, along with Raphial Morgado gave a presentation to some students at San Jose State University. Raphial demonstrated his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine and said a few words about the inventive process to those assembled. (PESWiki; April 13, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Nuclear > Cold Fusion >
  Cold Fusion Acknowledged 20 Years Later - The original press release from the American Chemical Society, and a compilation of mainstream news coverage of this historic validation on the anniversary of the original announcement. (PESN; March 29, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Thin Film > First Solar >
  Utility-Scale Thin-Film: Three New Plants in Germany Total Almost 50 MW - Germany is host to a range of thin-film projects that illustrate the technology’s potential, with three new large-scale thin-film PV installations recently commissioned, having a combined capacity of some 50 MW. The manufacturer? First Solar. (Renewable Energy World; March 11, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Solar > Thin Film >
  First Solar Breaks $1/Watt Manufacturing Barrier - Though this Arizona company is to be congratulated on reducing manufacturing costs for solar modules to 98 cents per watt, breaking the $1 per watt price barrier, the environmental downside of the use of highly toxic cadmium can't be overlooked. (PESWiki; March 16, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Events >
  Event: Breakthrough Power - Embracing the New Energy Frontier - On March 30 through April 2, 2009 there will be several presentations, including to the Harvard Club of San Francisco by Breakthrough Power co-authors, Joel Garbon and Jeane Manning as well as Sterling Allan, Founder of the NEC which generates the Top 100 energy listing. (PESWiki)
  

• Top 100: OriginOil >
  OriginOil partners with Department of Energy Idaho National Laboratory - Dr Vikram Pattarkine’s tech team is moving fast to build out the technology, and their co-founder Nicholas Eckelberry, continues to work on exciting inventions. (Video) (ABC Local 8; Feb. 24, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured / Videos: Geothermal > Raser >
  PESN Releases Video of Raser Geothermal Ribbon-Cutting - Sterling Allan and Robert Pritchett report on the Nov 6, 2008 ribbon-cutting event for the first of 8+ geothermal plants being built by Raser Technologies, which is now commissioned and producing competitive base-load power for a town in California. (YouTube) (PESN Videos; Feb. 26, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Concentrated Solar > IAS >
  IAS announces commercial readiness with Fresnel Solar Lens and Bladeless Steam Turbine system - After years of postponed starts, tweaking their super-efficient and cost-effective system, IAS has completed its third party testing and is now ready to go commercial, announcing a partnership with REDCO. (PESN; Feb. 24, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Fusion > Focus Fusion >
  Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Receives $1.2 Million to Test Hydrogen-Born Fusion - Eric Lerner's focus fusion project has received funding from The Abell Foundation and individual investors to undertake a two-year experimental project to test its scientific feasibility. (PESN; Feb. 20, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Solar / Wind > Skybuilt >
  SkyBuilt Providing Plug-n-Play Renewable Power (Interview) - Company that specializes in portable, modular, rapidly-deployable renewable energy systems, especially for the military and for cell tower installations; now has the world's first hybrid power station in an airline-checkable suitcase. (PESN; Feb. 12, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Tidal Power > Blue Energy >
  Green Energy - An Earthical Investment that Wins in a Recession - A new Investor page with video link at Blue Energy talks about the unprecedented pre-commercial order book now exceeding $30 billion dollars and 115 man years in engineering wind-up to commercialization and scale-up. (Blue Energy Canada; Feb. 7, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Engines > Wankel >
  Regi Technologies' RadMax rotary engine - The Radmax direct-charge engine with few moving parts is based on the Wankel rotary design, but is claimed to deliver up to three times the power, with half the weight of a true Wankel engine of the same size. It is virtually vibration free and very quiet. (PESWiki; Jan. 27, 2009)
  

• Top 100: Batteries > A123 Systems >
  A123 to build U.S.-based lithium ion battery mass production facilities - A123Systems announced it has submitted an application under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program to qualify for $1.84 billion in direct loans to support the construction of new world-class lithium ion battery manufacturing facilities. (GM Volt; Jan. 7, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Wind > Vertical Axis >
  Enviro Energies' magnetically levitated Mag-Wind™ system - Affordable wind turbine design by this North American company reduces friction, noise, vibration and energy losses, and generates power in low wind environments; is now going into production. (PESWiki; Jan. 23, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured / Videos: River / Water >
  Video: Markovic Self-Propelled (SP) River Pump - We've produced a new video about Vladimir Markovic's Top 100 river pump -- a very clever, simple, robust design now going into production that can be used to pump water, generate electricity, desalinate water, all from slow-moving water without the need to build a dam. (YouTube: PESNetwork; Jan. 22, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Ocean Wave Energy > Buoys >
  Oceanlinx Converts Wave action to Air Action - Oceanlinx is a leading international company in the field of wave energy conversion. It has developed technology for extracting energy from ocean waves by converting them into air flow that turns a turbine to produce electricity, or to provide desalinated industrial or potable grade water from sea water. (PESWiki; Jan. 19, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Flight > Flying Cars > MYT >
  Angel Flight Pack to tackle last frontier of aviation - Because of its ultra small and light size-to-power relationship, the Massive Yet Tiny engine is an ideal candidate for making personal flight packs, typically called 'jetpacks', a practical reality, as well as flying cars. Coming soon? (PESN; Jan. 18, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Radio > NEC >
  Sterling on Coast to Coast this Monday - On Jan. 19, 2009, beginning 10:00 pm Pacific, Sterling D. Allan will be a guest with host George Noory for two hours, talking about various exotic clean energy technologies and the Top 100 as generated by the New Energy Congress which he founded three years ago. (Coast to Coast AM)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Organizations > NEC >
  New Energy Congress in the News - List of media features of the New Energy Congress, the primary organization associated with PES Network, Inc., which brings you this PESWiki.com site and its Global Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies listing. (PESWiki; Jan. 15, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Engines > Retrofits > MYT >
  Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) Engine Going to Production (Interview) - World famous inventor, Raphial Morgado, sets forth a plan for his technology roll-out without requiring auto maker's cooperation. One of Angel Labs' retrofit engines the size of an alternator could replace an SUV engine, increasing performance, and yielding mileage as good as a Prius. (PESN; January 13, 2009)

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  Top 100 / Featured: Fuel Cells / Hydrogen >
  PowerAvenue is Revolutionizing Hydrogen Production and Fuel Cell Technology - PowerAvenue Corp has patented a way to create from sand a form of silicon that reacts with water to generate hydrogen at the point of use, making silicon the energy carrier. Their fuel cells operate at low pressure and temperatures, have a high power-to-weight ratio, and are reliable and efficient. (PESWiki; Jan. 8, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Hydro > Tide / Ocean Current >
  Marine Current Turbines' 1 MW SeaGen - SeaGen, designed and developed by Marine Current Turbines Ltd. of Britain, works in principle much like an “underwater windmill”, with the rotors driven by the power of the tidal currents rather than the wind, and has now generated at its maximum capacity of 1.2MW. (PESWiki; Jan. 7, 2009)
  

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