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President of Venezuela tells women to stop using hairdryers
The President of Venezuela has urged women to stop using hairdryers and offered alternative styling tips as the country’s energy crisis continues. Nicolas Maduro has announced a decree giving state employees Fridays off for two months as part of measures to offset a crippling electricity shortage. He urged his compatriots to increase other efforts to save power, including cutting appliance use and raising the temperature on air conditioning units.
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Canada-Electrical grid could handle millions of plug-in cars — but maybe not all at once
If provinces hit their targets, there will be more than 500,000 electric passenger cars on Canadian roads by 2020. But can the electricity system take the strain?
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Venezuela Scraps Half-hour Time Difference Set by Chavez
Former president turned country's clocks back in 2007 so that children could wake up for school in daylight, his successor returns to previous system to ensure more daylight in evening when energy consumption peaks
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San Francisco Requires New Buildings To Install Solar Panels
San Francisco will soon begin requiring new buildings to have solar panels installed on the roof.
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Portugal ran on renewable energy alone for four days
Last week, Portugal hit a major milestone in its ongoing effort to move to renewable energy. The entire country ran for more than half a week without having to resort to fossil fuels. In the late ’80s, Portugal brought a massive new coal-burning power plant online in Sines, and less than two decades later it was called out by the WWF as being one of the largest producers of CO2 emissions in all of Europe. It ranked 13 on the 2007 “Dirty 30” list.
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California utility to close Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors by 2025
The state’s last nuclear power plant has straddled geological and political fault lines.
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Big Solar is Leaving Rooftop Systems in the Dust
Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy – a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.
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The Stunning Case of Leaping Electric Eels
New experiments vindicate a naturalist’s 200-year-old account of fishing for eels—with horses. By Ed Yong.
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A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
Every so often, given the proper conditions, a small and roughly spherical piece of the atmosphere around us will briefly catch fire.…
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Alaska-Built Powerhouses Boost Fickle Green Energy in Villages
A Southwest Alaska village that installed 10 wind turbines in 2008 joined a wave of rural communities turning to renewable power to reduce sky-high energy costs.
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Second Phase of World's Biggest Offshore Windfarm gets go-Ahead
Multibillion-pound Hornsea Project Two, 55 miles off Grimsby coast,U.K., would see 300 turbines span an area five times size of Hull
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UK Approves World’s Largest Wind Farm
The U.K. government on Tuesday approved phase two of the world’s largest wind farm, adding 300 turbines to a project 55 miles off England’s shore, in the North Sea. The Hornsea Two project will provide 1.8 gigawatts of generating power, in addition to the first phase’s 1.2 gigawatts. In all, the 3 gigawatts provided by Hornsea is enough to power 2.5 million average (U.S.) households. At that size, the combined project is roughly equivalent to a nuclear power plant.
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Is Blue the New Green? Wave Power could Revolutionize the Renewable-Energy Game
There's enough wave energy in the oceans to power the world, and scientists are finally close to harnessing it.
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The Future Of Energy Is Blowing In The Wind
A look at America's first offshore wind farm
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Losing Business to Solar, U.S. Utility Companies Fight to Kill Consumer Trend
In some of the sunniest areas of the U.S., solar power is becoming a victim of its own success. With so many people leaving the grid, power utilities are now wondering who's going to pay the bill. They're fighting back, trying to make going solar much less attractive.
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Most Puerto Ricans face a second night without electricity
Most Puerto Ricans faced another night of darkness Thursday as crews slowly restored electricity a day after a fire at a power plant caused the aging utility grid to fail and blacked out the entire island of 3.5 million people.
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Renewable Energy Capacity Overtakes Coal
The International Energy Agency says that the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal.
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Daylight saving a dim idea whose time should end | GJSentinel.com
Grand Junction - This “daylight saving” they talk about every winter and spring doesn’t save any daylight at all. It’s a shell game
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First power drawn from tidal turbines off the coast of Scotland
Earlier this week Atlantis Resources announced that it had placed a tidal stream turbine off the northern coastline of Scotland and generated power for the first time from the 1.5 MW installation. The company plans to install three more turbines next year and use that experience to build out the site to approximately 400MW capacity.
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India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant
The country is on schedule to be the world’s third biggest solar market next year.
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