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A new type of battery that uses the same molecule found in rhubarb?
A funky battery that’s made of natural materials and uses liquid tanks is being developed in a lab at Harvard. If the breakthrough makes it to market it could be a low cost energy storage option for clean power.
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How A New Rhubarb-Based Battery Could Massively Increase Renewable Energy Use
A group of Harvard scientists recently hit on a battery that uses inexpensive organic compounds, and could massively expand the potential for renewable energy use.
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Does Google want to run your home?
Google has just acquired the start-up company Nest, and along with it a team of engineers dedicated to creating smarter home devices, with an Apple veteran to lead them. The acquisition will cost Google $3.2 billion, the company said in an announcement released after the close of the markets on Monday.
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Fukushima No. 1 engineer's warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable
A Japanese engineer who helped build reactor 4 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant said such plants are inherently unstable, urging Taiwan to ditch atomic energy for renewable resources. Mitsuhiko Tanaka, arriving in Taipei on Tuesday with a delegation of Diet members for a six-day visit, told a press conference Wednesday that the 1986 Chernobyl disaster changed his views on nuclear power.
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Spain becomes first country to rely on wind as top energy source
Spain is the first country in the world to draw a plurality of its power from wind energy for an entire year, according to new reports by the country’s energy regulator and wind energy advocacy group Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE). Wind accounted for 20.9 percent of the country’s energy last year — more than any other enough to power about 15.5 million households, with nuclear coming in a very close second at 20.8 percent.
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Toyota Wants You To Quit Being Paranoid About Hydrogen, Shoots a Fuel Cell
Whenever hydrogen cars are brought up with the general populace, at least one person says "but what about crashes? Won't an explosion level a city block?" This is all because of an airship in 1937 and a whole lot of "humanity." What's funny about this, (the reaction to hydrogen cars, not the Hindenburg disaster) is that we're all already driving around vehicles that are powered by explosions.
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Kenya to generate over half of its electricity through solar power by 2016
Government invests $1.2bn jointly with private companies to build solar power plants across the country..
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Electric cars won't save the planet
New research published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal this month has concluded that the widespread adoption of hybrid and all-electric vehicles wouldn't drastically reduce the...
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Report: US rail spilled more oil in 2013 than in past 37 years combined
More crude oil was spilled in US rail incidents last year than during the previous 37 years, according to a new government analysis. Oil by rail transport has become more popular as pipeline capacity has fallen behind increases in oil production during the North American shale boom.
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Get ready for a shock: The world's fastest supercar might soon be electric
At full speed, the Rimac Concept_One is little more than a cherry red blur, flashing from one corner of the horizon to the other in the blink of an eye. If its projected performance figures prove to be true, this radical electric concept car - the brainchild of an award-winning young Croatian designer - could accelerate faster than all but two of the fastest supercars on earth.
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Radioactive Waste Dumped by Oil Companies Is Seeping out of the Ground in North Dakota
After oil companies and state executives in North Dakota hid the news from the public that nearly 300 oil spills occured between 2011 and 2013, radioactive toxic sludge is brimming back up to the surface, bubbling forth from the ground and mixing with fresh water across the state. In late 2013, the shale oil industry in North Dakota received national attention when a train carrying explosive "Bakken" oil derailed and exploded near the town of Cassleton on December 30.
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China installed more solar panels in 2013 than any country ever has
China is now home to more solar panels than any other country, after installing 12 gigawatts of solar panels in 2013, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That’s equal to the total amount of panels in the entire United States, and more than any country has ever added in a single year. Greenpeace estimates the figure is a bit lower, but still record-breaking, at between 9.5 and 10.7 gigawatts.
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Politics, legacy loom over Obama decision on Keystone XL pipeline
President Barack Obama will lay out an agenda on jobs, the economy and the environment during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.But he is unlikely to mention the Keystone
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Thinking Outside the Box: Solar-Covered Bridge, Bike Highway for London
A solar bridge now spans London's Thames River and there soon could be a car-free highway.
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The anti-fracking activist barred from 312.5 sq miles of Pennsylvania
Vera Scroggins, an outspoken opponent of fracking, is legally barred from the new county hospital. Also off-limits, unless Scroggins wants to risk fines and arrest, are the Chinese restaurant where she takes her grandchildren, the supermarkets and drug stores where she shops, the animal shelter where she adopted her Yorkshire terrier, bowling alley, recycling centre, golf club, and lake shore.
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Boeing reveals “the biggest breakthrough in biofuels ever”
Oil companies watch out. Biofuels are on the verge of a breakthrough that will transform the oil market. Not only that: it will also green the planet.
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Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity
Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface? A promising report from a geothermal borehole project that accidentally struck magma – the same fiery, molten rock that spews from volcanoes – suggests it could.
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China sets new world record for solar installations
China installed a record 12GW of solar power in 2013, doubling its rate of solar installations, according to preliminary figures. This is more than has ever been installed by any country in a single year and means that China installed three times more solar energy in 2013 than the total UK solar capacity.
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Canada doesn’t need a pipeline to the US to exploit its oil sands
A US State Department review today rebuffed key objections to a huge oil pipeline from Canada that has been a loci for American protestors who starkly equate the project with Armageddon. Almost no proposed pipeline anywhere in the world has attracted such opposition. Environmentalists view the 875-mile line from Canada into the US as a proxy for fossil fuels and CO2 pollution, and many have made blocking it the centerpiece of their lobbying efforts.
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Meet The Voxan Wattman: The World's Most Powerful Electric Motorcycle
French Company, Voxan has unveiled the Voxan Wattman which they claim is the most powerful electric motorcycle in the world. The Voxan Wattman which had its premiere at the Paris Motorcycle Show is a 200 horsepower beast that produces 200Nm of torque.
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