Raser Technologies, a leading energy technology company, rang The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this morning commemorating its listing on the Big Board where Raser recently began trading in December 2008 and thus once more putting the creation of alternative and green energy sources in the public spotlight.

Scientists have found a very promising and clean source for energy that can power the entire world. A new device can use the slow movement of the currents under the rivers, oceans and streams to generate power.

When the gas prices started coming down one of the first things that worried me was the thought that this may scale back the efforts to produce more clean and alternative energy. Recently the media is not writing about clean and alternative energy very much, instead we cover more about the downward movement of the economy and the gas prices.

In 2012, the tiny northern New England state of Vermont will lose two-thirds of its electric power contracts. Its hydropower contract is up for renewal, and the nuclear reactor that now provides much of the state's energy may simply be too old to continue operation. So Vermont is turning to renewable resources, and as Erika Celeste reports from Morrisville, Vermont, trash may be one of its greatest resources.

As the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) approaches completion, researchers are preparing for the scientific grand challenges of providing limitless clean fusion-based energy, national security and understanding the science of the cosmos.

Parliamentary work by 2020 would reduce by 30% its emissions of carbon footprint.

New Mexico based Hyperion Nuclear Power Generation Company has introduced a new small energy reactor that can power 20,000 average-size American homes. Hyperion, thus present a new achievement in the nuclear power generation science.

Research that has provided a deeper understanding into the centre of planets could also provide the way forward in the world's quest for cleaner energy.

Amid mounting agreement that future clean, "carbon-neutral", energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria.

The federal government has picked three venture capital firms to take promising energy technology ideas from national laboratories and try them in practice in companies.

.S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner today announced the competitive selection of three venture capital firms to participate in DOE’s newly established Entrepreneur in Residence ( EIR ) pilot program, which aims to accelerate deployment and commercialization of advanced clean energy technologies from three DOE National Laboratories into the global marketplace.

There is a growing consensus that increased demand for electricity will cement coal’s place in the energy portfolio for years to come. In fact, more than half of the electricity produced in the United States comes from coal.