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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Energy Financial Services WHAT: GE Energy Financial Services and its partners are moving the location of a planned Aug. 24 kickoff ceremony for the Idaho Wind Partners project. With a price tag of almost $500 million, the portfolio of 11 wind farms is Idaho’s largest wind power project, with the capacity to generate 183 megawatts, enough to power approximately 39,700 average Idaho homes. WHO: Remarks by: C.L. “Butch” Otter, Governor of Idaho Alex Urquhart, President and CEO...

This month, BlackGold Biofuels, a Philadelphia-based company, turned an 800-pound butter sculpture into diesel fuel. It was part of an experiment led by Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The sculpture, shaped like Benjamin Franklin and the Liberty Bell, was made for the Pennsylvania Farm Show.  read more »

Today I would like to talk about how hydrogen fuel cells are going organic. Specifically I would like to talk about how some hydrogen fuel cells use organic human waste for power and another H2 fuel cell simulates a human organ.

I’ve talked about pee-power for hydrogen fuel cells before. The scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK have a new take on using pee (urea) to power fuel cells and they have come up with a couple of different ideas for doing so. read more »