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- Steven Chu Promotes Energy Policy Via Facebook, YouTube, Daily Show Appearance
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu is flexing his social networking muscles by launching a Facebook account that besides offering some personal tidbits, promises to gives "fans" an inside look at the Obama administration's energy policy. The Facebook launch is the latest in a flurry of Chu cheerleading that is clearly...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
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- U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Tours WaterFurnace International
- Tour Coincides with Announcement of $50 Million in Funding for Geothermal Systems FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu toured the world headquarters of WaterFurnace International, Inc., a leading manufacturer of residential, commercial, industrial and institutional geothermal and water source heat...
- Research articles 2009-06-03
- US DOE head nominee Chu says he would restore US as energy leader
- Washington Platts--13Jan2009 President-elect Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary, Steven Chu,on Tuesday pledged to senators at his confirmation hearing that he willimprove management and jumpstart programs more quickly at the department. "If the department is to meet the challenges ahead, it will have to runmore efficiently and effectively," Chu told...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Chu Confirmation Update: Answering for Past Statements
- Physics met politics at the confirmation hearing Tuesday for Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate scientist chosen by President-elect Obama to head the Department of Energy. Mr. Chu backed away slightly from statements made in his last job, as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that gasoline prices should be...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Energy Roundup: Chu Backs FutureGen, World's Largest Laser, and More
- FutureGen might just have a future -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu met with FutureGen Alliance officials today and said the project has merit, a move that suggests the troubled near-zero emission coal-fueled plant might have a new life under the Obama administration. FutureGen, a project aimed at generating electricity while permanently storing carbon dioxide...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu Should Be Fired for NatGas Views
- Michael Fitzsimmons submits: Any U.S. Energy Secretary that says he's "agnostic" about natural gas transportation should be fired. Period. Secretary Chu, Nobel Prize or not, is turning out to be just another incompetent policy wonk. Here's the story as reported by Platt's. Also, Platt's reports in Wednesday's "Gas Daily" that...
- External links 2009-04-09
- Clean Tech Announcement by Energy Secretary Chu Good First Step, Says WRI's Jennifer Morgan
- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced here today a five-year, $350 million international plan to distribute clean technology in developing countries. Through the Climate Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative REDI , the United States and other industrialized countries will fund energy-saving technologies throughout Africa, Asia and...
- News items 2009-12-14
- CHU GETS HOME AT SAKS.(David Chu)(Brief Article)
- Byline: Jean E. Palmieri NEW YORK -- David Chu's second career is getting off to a solid start. The founder and former CEO Of Nautica, which was sold to VF Corp. in August 2003, debuted his new collection...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- New DoE Head, Illinois Line Up in Favor of Clean Coal
- The stars are aligning up once again for clean coal as Barack Obama approaches his presidential coronation. At both the Federal and state level, policymakers are talking about the technology. And sensing an inexorable change on its way, utilities and energy companies are duly lining up to help, albeit for...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Google-backed Geothermal Startup Suspends Drilling Project
- A project that was supposed to show the potential of turning the heat from hot rocks deep in the Earth into a clean power source, from a startup backed by Google.org, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and the Department of Energy, has hit a snag, literally. Geothermal startup AltaRock...
- News items 2009-09-03
- The Feds "Zero Out" Hydrogen Research
- The once-bright luster of hydrogen and fuel cells seems to have dimmed recently, with the momentum shifting to plug-in battery vehicles. Hydrogen is still very expensive, despite talk of the “hydrogen highway†there are only 65 filling stations around the country, and costs haven’t come down enough on the cars...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Energy Roundup: FutureGen Has a Future, Silver Springs Snags Cisco Exec, Tesla Co-Founder Sues, and More
- U.S. restarts FutureGen clean coal project -- The Department of Energy breathed new life into FutureGen, a coal-fired plant project that aims to capture 60 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground. The DOE will provide $1 billion in economic stimulus funds towards the controversial project derailed by the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Congress is Bullish on Hydrogen Funding (Defying the Energy Department)
- With very little attention in the media, Congress appears to be ready to rebuff Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s attempt to cut $100 million earmarked for hydrogen and fuel cells in the 2010 budget. Declaring that he didn’t see fuel-cell cars as likely to happen anytime soon, Chu...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Hydrogen Funding Reversal Provides a Cautionary Tale
- Those wishing for immediate government support of all forms of green energy technology are forewarned: Once a technology is government-supported, it may be nearly impossible to get rid of, even if it proves not to be a great option. That's the case with hydrogen, for which Department of Energy secretary...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Massive wind farm planned for West Texas
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 UPI -- A consortium of Chinese and American companies announced plans Thursday for a $1.5 billion, 600-megawatt wind farm in West Texas. The venture's main companies include U.S. Renewable Energy Group, Texas-based Cielo Wind Power LP, China's Shenyang Power Group and A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. The...
- News items 2009-10-30
- PTO to Fast Track Green Tech Patents
- Under new pilot program, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office hopes to slice at least a year off the patent process for green technology patent applications. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the initiative will allow inventors to secure funding, create businesses and bring green technologies into use much sooner.The USPTO...
- News items 2009-12-08
- Obama Names Energy, Environmental Leaders
- Greentech Media submits: By Jeff St. John President-elect Barack Obama named Nobel Prize-winning scientist and noted renewable energy advocate Steven Chu as his choice to lead the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, calling the appointment "a signal to all that my administration will value science" in building a...
- External links 2008-12-16
- Energy Roundup: Crude's Rollercoaster Ride, Cheap Solar Power, and More
- Recession fears, inventories spur oil's wild ride this week -- Crude oil was trading below $35 a barrel earlier this week as concerns of a global recession deepened. Prices suddenly rose 14 percent after a U.S. government report showed a drop in supplies for the first time this year, as imports...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
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