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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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Clouds over Hawaii's rooftop solar growth hint at U.S. battle
When Gloria Adams signed a contract to install a rooftop solar power system on her Oahu home in late August, she looked forward to lower electric bills and a return on her investment in the
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2014 preview: Hydrogen SUV ready to hit the road
Hyundai's Tucson Fuel Cell can drive for almost 500 kilometres on a single tank of hydrogen – and may be safer than an ordinary, gasoline-powered car
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Three-wheel $6,800 car gears for 2015 US launch
The sleek three-wheeled car looks futuristic, but, as its creator acknowledges, it uses no new technology. What makes the Elio Motors vehicle unique is its ultra-high fuel economy and an ultra-low price tag: $6,800.
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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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Teen Sleeps Outside For An Entire Year In Order To Raise Awareness For The Homeless
Rudy Hummel, a 17 year old resident of Hermantown, Minnesota, is in the middle of a year long campaign to raise awareness and assistance for the homeless by living without a home himself.
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This robotic lawnmower uses the grass it cuts as fuel
Who needs gas when you've got biofuel? The EcoMow Harvester trims your lawn and transforms the clippings into pellets, which can then be burned for power.
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Urb-E Electric scooter
We have covered some pretty cool electric bikes but the Urb-E scooter is probable one of the most innovative ones we have seen. The scooter made an appearance at CES 2014 and now a $150,000 campaign has been launched on Indiegogo.
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The World's Largest Solar Plant Started Creating Electricity Today
Take 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide. Control them with computers to focus the Sun's light to the top of 459-feet towers, where water is turned to steam to power turbines. Bingo: you have the world's biggest solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
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possible clean energy alternative in rocks
Scientists from the University of Lyon have discovered a new way to split hydrogen gas from water, using rocks.
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Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic
Billions of tiny plastic beads are polluting the Great Lakes, and a U.S. scientist has traced them to grooming products such as facial scrubs and toothpastes that are washed daily down bathroom drains.
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Variable renewable power can reach 40 percent capacity very cheaply
Most forms of renewable power differ from traditional electricity sources in a key way: they're intermittent. The sun doesn't always shine on photovoltaics, and when it does, it may vary in intensity. Wind speeds also vary across a wide range at many locations. All of which means that the electricity generated by wind and solar will also vary, with large implications for the stability of the grid.
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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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Solar Is On The Way To Dominating The Electricity Market, And The World Has Elon Musk To Thank
Goldman Sachs has set an estimated date for when they believe residential solar power becomes competitive with existing electric across the U.S. It's relatively soon. And it's mostly thanks to Elon Musk.
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Buddha's World of the Arts and Beyond: Finally, A Subway Grip Clean Enough To Lick
Showcase of my artistic talents plus, articles about conspiracy theories, news, health matters, and more!!
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Tesla could help customers go off the grid
Morgan Stanley’s investigation into the potential of consumers to go off-grid in a major way in the US depends on a number of factors. The falling cost of solar we know about, and the rising cost of poles…
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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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19-Year-Old Aerospace Student Boyan Slat Invents Cleanup System For Plastic Choking Our Oceans
19-year-old Boyan Slat’s impassioned and educated opinion reminds us that youth, with its promising vital force, often taps into genius. If he is correct, Slat has designated some flair for environmental cleanup. He believes with his idea, developed for a student project in Aerospace Engineering, that it is possible the dreadful plastic that is...
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Philips Clear LED bulb goes retro
LED bulbs are already more efficient than their incandescent forebears, more flexible, and longer running, but is the absence of that familiar old clear design still holding them back? Philips apparently suspects that's the case, hence the new Philips Clear LED, a 40W-equivalent bulb that looks to the casual glance just like a regular, old-fashioned light.
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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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