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Here are the Top 10 Renewable Energy News Stories You May Have Missed this Week:

In a study to be outlined in the November issue of Scientific American, Stanford University Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and University of California-Davis researcher Mark Delucchi layout numbers and a scheme to power the world on 100% clean and renewable energy.

Capturing energy from high-altitude, or atmospheric, or jet stream winds is still years away, but there is serious power potential in this industry -- 870 terawatts of potential.

News from the solar sector stole several headlines this week.  However, the other cleantech industries proved to be quite newsworthy as well.

Here are the Top 10 Renewable Energy News Stories You May Have Missed This Week:

Engineers at Stanford University have run successful tests on a new solar conversion process that boasts efficiency upwards of 60% -- and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Nevada, Reno US$1.2 million to develop and operate the National Geothermal Institute.

Estimates of how far renewable energy sources could take us from the current fossil fuel paradigm are very good lately.

California is building a zero-carbon city, Ford is staking its business future in electric and hybrid vehicles, and Iberdrola is planning to build Europe's largest on-shore wind farm.

These are just the macro announcements.  There have be many other amazing discoveries and developments this week that could have lasting effects on the clean energy sector.

Scientists at Stanford University have found a way to harvest electricity directly from plant cells during algae photosynthesis.

Shawn Lesser of Sustainable World Capital believes that the cutting-edge clean energy start-up companies will come from the top cleantech universities.