CARBONDALE - In the late 1970s, a coal gasification project was on tap for Southern Illinois. Backed by a consortium of Illinois Utilities known as the Illinois Coal Gasification Group, the demonstration facility promised cutting-edge technology that would have yielded high-energy gas and…
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EDWARDSVILLE - The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center opened in 2003 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a mission of finding efficient and marketable ways to extract ethanol for fuel from corn.
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Sunlight is the world's most abundant energy source but, according to the National Academy of Sciences, solar power makes up just .1 percent of the energy consumed in the country.
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In a 2007 report, a panel of United Nations scientists said evidence that man was causing global warming is "unequivocal." Earlier in December 650 scientists from around the globe criticized the finding in a U.S. Senate minority report.
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In the debate on preferred energy sources for America to pursue, most experts will agree that natural gas offers one of the most environmentally clean options.
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While many legislators and policy makers debate the need and basics of a national energy plan, many smaller municipalities have embraced their own spirit of conservation and preservation.
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On a cold, blustery November morning Brad Gesell is standing on a patch of bald, wind-whipped cornfield in Franklin County. It's an unlikely spot to find a person in such conditions. And what Gesell is doing there might seem even more unlikely.
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CARBONDALE - Fluctuating oil prices can cause hectic production schedules for automotive companies, one local industry expert said.
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According to the Energy Information Administration there are 302,000 miles of pipeline devoted to transporting natural gas in the United States.
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In the face of environmental concerns aimed at oil and coal, natural gas has been marketed as the Earth-friendly fossil fuel.
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CARBONDALE - The link between the price of energy and the price of food could become stronger as the use of biofuels increases, a pair of experts say.
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Illinois' first significant wind farm didn't start up until 2003 in Lee County. Today, the state has an installed wind energy capacity of 1,121 megawatts.
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The troubles oil can bring to the environment have been well documented through disasters like the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989 and the current debate on whether burning fossil fuels is affecting the world's climate through global warming.
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Local experts believe natural gas could hold the key to transportation's future, but at least one isn't counting oil out altogether.
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When a passion exists for a cause, those that fight for it don't view any hurdles encountered along the way as being too much of a challenge.
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MARION - With the country's seemingly endless need for petroleum-based gasoline, it's not uncommon to hear someone claim "America is addicted to oil."
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On the topics of how foreign oil affects the U.S. economy and whether America should move toward homegrown energy alternatives, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Professors Jonathon Bean and Sylvia Secchi could not be more opposed.
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One of the most distinctive symbols in the iconography of clean, sustainable energy is the spire and blades of a wind turbine, glis-tening in the sunlight amid rolling hills, tranquil farmland or the deep blue of the open ocean.
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Health problems have been reported in people who live close to wind farms, although medical experts and public health officials are uncertain whether the phenomenon is unique to wind turbines.
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The conflict between profit and environmental health is at the core of the debate about how to best manage the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
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