IN THIS ISSUE...

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS: Closing Volume 2 and Looking Forward to 2011

FEATURED STORY: Wind Power: An Exhaustible Resource?

FEATURED ARTICLE: Benefits and concerns of a closed nuclear fuel cycle

JRSE VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6: Peer-Reviewed Research

CLEAN: The Official Blog of Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

FEATURED PODCAST: Converting Thermal Energy with Doped Buckyballs

Dear Colleague,

We're excited to close out our second volume of Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. The past couple of months have been a busy time for promoting the journal—we were exhibiting at the MRS Fall Meeting and the AGU Winter Meeting. There was great interest in the journal from researchers representing a large variety of the topics that these meetings cover.  Thank you all for stopping by. Look for us at a meeting near you!

Besides publishing several interesting articles in Issue 6, we've also published a couple of Top Stories, which explore—in plain language—some of the subtleties of the research in JRSE. The most recent is "Precise Heat Measurements Inform Aquathermal Energy Project Prospects," wherein Stuart Fox discusses the article "Mapping available Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion resources around the main Hawaiian Islands with state-of-the-art tools" with the author, Gérard C. Nihous.

Finally, look for an announcement in January 2011 about a new tradition in JRSE that will help focus the diverse nature of JRSE to better cover renewable energy sustainability research.

Thanks so much for helping make another amazing year of JRSE. Be sure to check back to the homepage, jrse.aip.org, for further updates.

All the best,


P. Craig Taylor
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA

John A. Turner
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA

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Wind Power: An Exhaustible Resource?
Temperature difference is the fuel for wind power. If the temperature is uniform around Earth, there will be no wind, no fuel, the air will be stagnant... Read more

Benefits and concerns of a closed nuclear fuel cycle
Nuclear power can play an important role in our energy future, helping to meet increasing electricity demand while at the same time decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. However, the nuclear fuel cycle in the United States today is unsustainable... Read more

In the current issue of JRSE, you'll find peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of topics, including:

• Benefits and concerns of a closed nuclear fuel cycle Read the full abstract
• Evaluation of active flow control applied to wind turbine blade section Read the full abstract
• Novel spray pyrolysis for dye-sensitized solar cell Read the full abstract
• Read the complete Table of Contents (ToC)

Houston's Call for Electric Car Infrastructure ... Plastic Convert Provides Recycling and Energy to the Developing World ... MIT Uses Green Grease To Help Brazilian Garbage Collectors ... Read more

Converting Thermal Energy with Doped Buckyballs
Dr. Tang is a professor at the University of Wyoming Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Tang gives the example of using materials with high Seebeck coefficients on an automobile's exhaust to generate energy... Listen now