New program will fund renewable, alternative energy technologies From Bizjournals.com Kentucky has launched a new program that will administer $5 million in state funds to companies that are developing renewable and alternative energy technologies. The program, called Kentucky New Energy Ventures, was created by the Kentucky General Assembly under House Bill 1 during a special legislative session last year.

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No ‘alternative’ to funding, just stop From UW Badger Herald The bad news is that in 2008, the National Institutes of Health appropriated more than $121 million to the study of what's euphemistically known as "Complementary and Alternative Medicine," or CAM - practices that include those mentioned above. I say CAM is a euphemism because the majority of complementary and alternative "medicine" is hardly recognizable as medicine when held to modern standards. Another common argument is that alternative medicine is often a last resort for terminally ill...

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Enzymes pushed as 'green' alternative From News Novozymes, a Danish champion of "green" technology for more than 65 years, has long argued that U.S. industries should replace some fossil-fuel-based chemicals with environmentally sensitive enzymes. A technological breakthrough promises to help Novozymes make enzymes that replace surfactants, chemicals in detergents that release stains from fabric, said Lars Topholm, a Danish analyst who tracks Novozymes.

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Alternative energy sources in Caroline, NY From Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun In the latest step toward achieving energy independence from traditional fuel sources, the nearby Town of Caroline will receive compact fluorescent lightbulbs as part of an initiative called Energy Independent Caroline. Founded in 2005 when Caroline became the state's second municipality to purchase wind power for 100 percent of its electricity use, EIC's ultimate goal is for the town to generate its own wind power instead of purchasing it from outside sources. One of the group's leaders,...

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Arjun Makhijani: Nuclear is not the right alternative energy source From Dallas Morning News Luminant Energy, formerly TXU, is proposing to build two Mitsubishi nuclear power reactors at its Comanche Peak site, where two reactors are already in place. If you don't like coal, you have to take nuclear, goes the nuclear establishment's hopeful mantra. Wind energy is competitive with or more economical than nuclear energy about 8 cents per kilowatt-hour in good areas. In January, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which is owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, dropped plans to build a...

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