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The 2010 MIT Energy Conference was an open house to all of the research projects being conducted by both faculty and students of the institute. The main goal of the research according to MIT Energy Initiative director, Ernest Moniz, is to work with the renewable energy and power industries to commercialize groundbreaking technologies.

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Does the USA have to erode away as a Global power of the past? Certainly not, but drastic changes in Federal Government size will have to be made, taxation reform will have to occur and the Federal Government, through its downsizing will have to present Grants with a date of expiration for small business and a new exciting high tech industry that will render Global demand!

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Geothermal will not run your car, and it won’t make plastic blister packs, so I guess that we still need to drill for oil. Where would we be without blister packs and plastic shopping bags?

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Last time we introduced the new buzzword term, the Electric Smart Grid, provided a quick overview of the concept-undergoing-creation, and noted that doubts exist whether the utility industry can successfully implement it. Now let’s spend a little time examining those doubts as they relate to the utility-centric side of the electric Smart Grid effort.

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The unemployment rate coming out of the recession is still in the 9.7% range, and is expected to decline only slowly. One significant component of unemployment is structural unemployment, one example being that there are jobs that have been eliminated as some industries have shrunk, such as automobile manufacturing. Because of this, less worker mobility because of the housing crisis, and other factors, structural unemployment, which has decreased rapidly in other economic recoveries, may be much slower to decline in this one, putting a continued drag on consumer spending.

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The latest GDP numbers for the US economy seemed to hold a surprise for everyone and reason to cheer on the face of it. The fourth quarter growth for the US economy was reported at an annualized rate of 5.7%, by far the fastest growth rate in nearly six years.

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The latest statements from the US Fed suggest that the US economy is improving gradually, with some areas of concern remaining. Accordingly, the Fed has decided not to raise interest rates, which have been close to zero for some time now.

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There are a lot of sources where you can get the information you need on alternate energy and the different sources that can supply it. Then you can decide how you can apply that knowledge to your own life.

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The pressures on businesses and organisations to reduce their energy usage and introduce sustainable energy alternatives are ever increasing. With new government incentives introduced on the 1st April 2010 this issue was highlighted, and so were the consequences of not doing so, as well as the benefits of adopting greener energy sources.

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There has been a lot of interest recently over the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative energy source. When in actuality, hydrogen fuel cells are a device and not an energy platform. So what can they do for our environment?

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