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Your pee could power future robots
There's a new use for artificial hearts, and it involves a more taboo bodily fluid than blood. A device that mimics the squeezing action of the human heart has been used to pump urine into a microbial fuel cell, which could power robots that convert the waste into electricity.
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Underground Carbon Dioxide Injections Triggered Earthquakes in Texas in 2009-2011
A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences correlates 93 small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2009 and 2011 with the underground injection of large volumes of gas, primarily carbon dioxide.
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600,000 bats killed at wind energy facilities in 2012, study says
Over 600,000 bats were killed by wind energy turbines across the United States last year, with the highest concentration of kills in the Appalachian Mountains, according to new research.
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Colored Solar Glass Pretty, Yet Powerful Enough to Generate Electricity for an Entire Building
Oxford Photovoltaics, a commercial offshoot of the University of Oxford, has developed colorful and transparent glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy. This semi-transparent dyed glass that acts as a solar panel enables an entire building to act as a solar panel. The colorful glass adds a very small extra cost to the building’s façade.
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Futuristic water-recycling shower cuts bills by over $1000
Want to cut your bills by $1000? Invest in an OrbSys shower, the shower that recycles 90% of water and 80% energy every time you wash
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Dumping on the Great Lakes-Nuclear Waste
Canadian Company wants to bury nuclear waste 1 mile from Lake Huron shoreline
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Spain's solar police to kick in your door
The latest nail in the coffin for Spain’s solar energy producers is an Energy Law amendment which allows inspectors to enter private properties without a cour
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Google Invests $80 Million to Open 6 Solar Energy Plants
Google has invested $80 million in solar power plants in California and Arizona.
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Tennessee Valley Authority Defies McConnell With Coal Cut
The Tennessee Valley Authority said it will cut its use of coal-fired electrical generation by about half of current levels, shuttering some units and converting others to burn natural gas to meet tighter emission-control regulations.
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Proposed ethanol reduction could hurt farmers
The Obama administration proposed on Friday slashing federal requirements for U.S. biofuel use in 2014, partially bowing to pressure from the petroleum industry and attempting to prevent a projected fuel crunch next year.
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Congratulations, America. You're (Almost) Energy Independent.
For four decades, whenever the American political debate turned to energy, the discussion was all about shortage and scarcity, a reality that haunted the United States ever since the global oil crises of the 1970s. That conversation is over.
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Highly Dangerous Fukushima 4 Fuel Removal Begins Monday
The highly dangerous and unprecedented removal of the highly radioactive nuclear fuel rods in Fukushima Unit 4 will begin on Monday, November 18.
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Two for one in solar power
A process that could revolutionize solar energy harvesting has been efficiently demonstrated in solution for the first time.
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How bad the Keystone pipeline is for the environment
The president has said he will approve or deny the Keystone pipeline based on its impact on climate change. So bad bad would it be?
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Self-HEALING BATTERY could make electric cars practical at last
Stanford boffins' remarkable cladding produced Miracle-'lectrode
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10 Bizarre Sources for Alternative Energy
Most people would agree that fossil fuels simply need to go. They’re the cause of pollution, wars and climate change. Thankfully, scientists have been researching alternative energy solutions like wind and solar power for years. But wind and solar are still more expensive than oil and coal, and may not be the best solution for all places or uses. For example, some medical devices that are implanted in a human body could benefit from super tiny batteries that last decades.
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Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show.
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Iran nuclear deal shipping insurance element may help oil sales
Iran's nuclear deal with the West is not intended to let more of its oil into the market, the White House said, but an easing of the ban on European shipping insurance may help smooth crude exports to its big Asian customers.
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Greenpeace activist Frank Hewetson says oil rig protests will continue
A British Greenpeace activist who spent two months in a Russian jail has said the organisation will "for sure" continue to stage oil rig protests. It comes after 30 people were arrested during a protest against oil drilling at a Russian fixed gas platform in the Arctic in September.
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U.S. air pollution authority faces Supreme Court tests
The U.S. government's authority to regulate air pollution nationwide, often against the wishes of Republican-leaning states, could face new curbs when the Supreme Court takes on
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