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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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Are Electric Vehicles a Fire Hazard?
Lithium-ion batteries can be designed to prevent fires, but there are inherent risks.
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Special Report: How China took control of an OPEC country's oil
The oil that Ecuador sells to Chinese firms can be traded anywhere.Most is sent to the United States.
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This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil," says Bill Gates. Here's why...
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Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant
Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has a plan to effectively turn the moon into a giant solar power plant, reports Inhabitat. It proposes building a massive collection of solar panels (a "Luna Ring") 6,800 miles long by 12 miles wide on the moon's surface. That's certainly a heavy-duty construction job for human beings, so Shimizu plans to get the work done with robots, only involving humans in supervisory roles.
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State Pushing Hard To Expand Solar Energy To Homes
As Connecticut pushes aggressively to expand solar energy to homes across the state, few supporters are more enthusiastic than Eugene DeJoannis.
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Solar Power Station On The Moon: Japanese Civil Engineers - Geekswipe
A fantastic project from the Japanese to build a solar power station on the moon and transmit power through microwave/laser power transmission.
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Japan’s plan to supply all the world’s energy from a giant solar power plant on the moon
Shimizu, a Japanese architectural and engineering firm, has a solution for the climate crisis: Simply build a band of solar panels 400 kilometers (249 miles) wide (pdf) running all the way around the Moon’s 11,000-kilometer (6,835 mile) equator and beam the carbon-free energy back to Earth in the form of microwaves, which are converted into electricity at ground stations.
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Passive Houses: 13 Reasons Why the Future Will Be Dominated by this New Pioneering Trend
What’s a passive house anyway? If you don’t know what a ‘Passive House’ is you’re in good company, most people haven’t. Passive Houses are essentially buildings which use very little energy for heating and cooling, whilst also providing a high level of comfort. If I were to describe Passive Houses in a few words it would be ‘Exceptionally energy efficient,…
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Metamaterials That Convert Wifi Into Electric Current - Geekswipe
Hopes high on metamaterials that convert wifi into electric current, as students successfully engineer the split ring resonators for microwaves.
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This Is What Comes After Silicon Chips
Amazing research into carbon nanotubes gives us a hint of one future chip technology.
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By 2020 around 20% of energy demands will be met by #wind power in the UK, up from 3% in 2011
EY predicts that the investment trend will continue and by 2020 around 20% of Britain's average demand - around 70 terrawatt hours will be met by met by wind power compaired to 3% in 2011.
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Raise the Gas Tax!
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon—who represents the Portland area and is best known as Capitol Hill’s leading bicycling advocate—wants to change that. Last week, he introduced a bill to phase-in a 15-cent hike in the gas tax, followed by an indexing of the tax to inflation.
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Canada to claim north pole as its own
UN submission will seek to redefine Canada's continental shelf to capture more Arctic oil and gas resources
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Newly discovered greenhouse gas '7,000 times more powerful than CO2'
A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto. The newly discovered gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), has been in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century.
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Chemical Surprise Found in Crab Nebula
Astronomers have discovered a rare chemical pairing in the remains of an exploded star, called the Crab nebula. A gas thought to be a loner has made a "friend," linking up with a chemical partner to form a molecule. The discovery, made with the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, will help scientists better understand supernovas, the violent deaths of massive stars.
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Washing Hands in Hot Water Wastes Energy, Study Says
The United States wastes energy equal to the fuel demand of Barbados on a practice with no proven health benefit: washing hands in hot water rather than cool, a study says.
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Lights On but Nobody Home: Behind the Fake Buildings that Power Chicago
Chicago offers a panorama of architectural marvels. So many icons that you usually have to live here before you start noticing structures that are not famous and important, but merely intriguing and fun. Such as the charming little fake buildings that electrical company Commonwealth Edison puts up to camouflage its substations.
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Fracking Hell: what it’s really like to live next to a shale gas well
Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas.
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Light bulb ban set to take effect
New rules mean that traditional 40 and 60-watt incandescent bulbs won't be made after the start of the year, despite efforts by tea party types to reverse the ban.
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