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Why hydrogen-powered cars will drive Elon Musk crazy
After decades of development—and no small amount of skepticism—major automakers are set to start selling hydrogen fuel-cell cars in small numbers in the US. In the coming months, a hydrogen-powered version of Hyundai’s Tucson sport utility vehicle will appear in southern California showrooms. And Honda and Toyota next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than water vapor.
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Tesla Keeps Poaching Prius Buyers, and It's Not Slowing Down
Tesla Motors sold 22,477 Model S sedans last year. As you’d imagine, many of the people buying the super-luxe car owned German vehicles before going electric. But many more of them owned a Toyota Prius.
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Chinese going for broke on thorium nuclear power, and good luck to them
The nuclear race is on. China is upping the ante dramatically on thorium nuclear energy. Scientists in Shanghai have been told to accelerate plans (sorry for the pun) to build the first fully-functioning thorium reactor within ten years, instead of 25 years as originally planned. “This is definitely a race. China faces fierce competition from...
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Wind and Solar Harvest Enough Energy Now to Pay Back Manufacture Plus Add Storage
To be cost-effective, any source of power has to produce more energy than it consumes. Oil companies would hardly turn a profit, for example, if extracting a barrel of oil required the energy output of a second barrel of oil.
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Tough Trees Transforming Moroccan Desert
A biotech company has patented a hybrid tree species that can grow in the toughest environments and will be used to create biofuel.
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Hydrogen cars: Ready for the roads?
Why the automotive industry could change more in the next 10 years than the last 100 years.
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Steam Whistle Brewing — Combination Of Classic Cars and Green Energy
What do Canadian craft brews, classic American cars, and green energy have in common? Steam Whistle Brewing, a Toronto, Canada-based craft brewery that is an exemplary model of the green revolution infiltrating the brewing industry.
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Has Fusion Finally Solved Its Hype Problem? [Q&A]
Omar Hurricane studies nuclear fusion at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif. In February Hurricane's lab took the biggest step toward fusion energy yet. He tells PopMech how today's goals and breakthroughs have taken a sharp turn from the...
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Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
EXCLUSIVE IMAGESA Gaza resident has built a high-tech plant from basic equipment to turn used plastic remains to its origin; fuel.It took Ibrahim Soboh, 55, from the Nusairat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, seven months to build...
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Ikea Acquires Illinois Wind Farm in Largest Renewable-Power Deal
Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, bought a wind farm under construction in Illinois, it’s first in the U.S. and its largest renewable-energy investment to date. The 98-megawatt wind project in Hoopeston, about 110 miles (176 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis, is expected to be complete in the first half of next year, Almhult, Sweden-based Ikea said today in a statement. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
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Germany's green dreams meet harsh reality
A vision for a greener future for the world seems very distant if you descend into the heart of one of Germany's largest coal mines.
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World must end 'dirty' fuel use - UN
A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels. There must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy, says the 33-page study released in Berlin. It has been finalised after a week of negotiations between scientists and government officials.
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World must end 'dirty' fuel use - UN
A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.
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Electricity Prices Fall In Europe As German Renewable Energy Increases
For the fifth consecutive month, electricity prices in have decreased in Western Europe, due in part to increased solar and wind generation in Germany.
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Scientists Discover How to Generate Solar Power in the Dark
Meet 'photoswitches,' a breakthrough set of materials that act as their own batteries, absorbing energy and releasing it on demand.
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US Navy Cracks New Renewable Energy Technology To Turn Seawater Into Fuel, Allowing Ships To Stay At Sea Longer
The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel could one day relieve the military’s dependence on oil-based fuels and is being heralded as a “game changer” because it could allow military ships to develop their own fuel and stay operational 100 percent of the time, rather than having to refuel at sea.
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Toyota confirms fuel cell launch for 2015
The car, which will be a mid-sized saloon comparable to the current Avensis, will closely reference the Toyota FCV concept shown at the Geneva motor show last month. Toyota says it will use a high-density fuel stack and will have the potential to cover 500 miles on a single tank of fuel.
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The world's dumbest idea: Taxing solar energy
In a setback for the renewable energy movement, the state House in Oklahoma this week passed a bill that would levy a new fee on those who generate their own energy through solar equipment or wind turbines on their property.
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It's Final - Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use
OK, can we please stop pretending biofuel made from corn is helping the planet and the environment? With huge subsidies for ethanol in gasoline, with all States now selling gasoline having some ethanol blend, and a general misconception that these biofuels are green, corn ethanol has taken on a $30 billion/yr life of its own.
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Paying for giant Nile dam itself, Ethiopia thwarts Egypt but takes risks
Ethiopia's bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile's waters, and may help transform one of the world's poorest countries.
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