Research and Development
Categories:
Coal
Natural Gas
Oil and Oil Shale
Renewable Resources
Other
Coal
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK website with unbiased information on sustainable use of coal worldwide.
- DOE Hydrogen from Coal Research - Goal is to have a zero emissions, high-efficiency co-production power plant that will produce hydrogen from coal along with electricity by 2015.
- Description of U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Program
- Futuregen is a $1 billion dollar project intended to create the worlds first zero-emissions fuel plant.
- State by State project profiles (Wyoming)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Mining. Safety and Health Research.
- USGS Coal Resources and Research Activities
- Coal may lead way to hydrogen economy, April, 2006.
- Fossil Fuel Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- National Research Center for Coal and Energy, West Virginia University
- Bioprocessing and biotechnology research for clean fuels from coal
Coal Conversion
- NETL Advanced Research/University Coal Research - Information on the UCR program.
Natural Gas
Coalbed Methane (CBM)
- CBNG Research, Monitoring, and Applications Conference
- Confluence Study: Powder River Biological Survey and Implications for CBM Development
- Carbon Sequestration Research
- Feasibility of wind-to-hydrogen using CBM water
- USGS and BLM Research: CBM
- USGS-BLM Coalbed Gas Coop in the Powder River Basin: A Success Story
NEW!! Best Management Practices (BMP) for Oil and Gas Development
Conventional Gas
Oil and Oil Shale
- DOE Oil & Natural gas Supply and Delivery Research website
- Understanding Oil Spills and Oil Spill Response - EPA
- DOE’s Fundamental Research Program in fossil energy
Renewable Resources
- DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- Sandia National Laboratories: Renewable Energy
- Interwest Energy
Alliance Project Locator
Map shows all grid-connected renewable energy projects in the Interwest states. - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Geothermal
Solar
- National Solar Power Research Institute, Inc. - Research and Documents
- DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program: Concentrating Solar Power
- Photovoltaic research and development
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Solar
Water
- Idaho National Laboratory hydropower research and development
- Idaho National Laboratory hydropower environmental research
- U.S. Hydropower Resource Assessment for Wyoming, 1993
- Hydropower research and analyses
- Hydro Research Foundation
- U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation - TSC Resources for Hydropower Research and Analyses
- Hydropower Research and Markets - RSS feed
Wind
- National Wind Watch
Promotes awareness of the risks and related impacts of industrial wind energy development on our environment, economy, and quality-of-life. - National Renewable Energy Laboratory: National Wind Technology Center Home Page
- UW Research Taps Expanding Market for Wind Energy
- Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program: Wind Energy Research
- BLM Wyoming Rawlins Field Office: Wind Energy
Bio Fuels
- USDA - National Agricultural Library - Bio Fuels Research
- University of Connecticut Office of Environmental Policy - Biodiesel Research
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Biomass Research Homepage
- USDA Bio fuels Information
- Department of Energy Funds Biomass Recovery Innovation
- UW - Wyoming Farmers Could Help Fuel demand for Biodiesel, Oct., 2005
Other
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- National Fuel Cell Research Center
- DOE Fueleconomy.gov - Fuel Cell Vehicles
- DOE Fossil Energy: Hydrogen and Clean Fuels Research Program
- Feasibility of wind-to-hydrogen using CBM water
- Western Area Power Administration Energy Services Bulletin, Farm makes history with “cow-powered” hydrogen fuel cell
- Argonne National Laboratory, International Energy Resource Cooperation: The use of hydrogen as an energy carrier
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Hydrogen
Other non-petroleum based fuels
National Energy Laboratories
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
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