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Why the US hides 700 million barrels of oil underground
The world’s superpowers store an enormous stockpile of oil in secure caverns and tanks around the world. So why can’t we use it?
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The Schizophrenic Society
Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.
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Scientists Turn Algae Into Crude Oil In Less Than An Hour
Researchers believe they have figured out a way to make a promising biofuel that is cheap enough to compete with gasoline
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Renewable Energy in Kodiak,Alaska
Kodiak Electric Association generates nearly all of its power from hydroelectric and wind turbines.
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Solar Power Invades Oil-Rich Middle East
Solar energy is becoming a major power player in the Middle East
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New Zealand to create giant marine sanctuary
Waters north of New Zealand will become one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries, covering an area roughly the size of France, with a full ban on fishing and mining
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Tesla Will Have A 600-Mile Range Vehicle In Two Years
By 2017, Tesla is going to have a vehicle with a 600-mile range on the market. One of the primary issues with the Tesla Model S is that it can only go a couple hundred miles before requiring a charge. This new model will address that problem. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, announced the company would soon be able to equip cars with the battery and powertrain technology required for 620 miles per charge.
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Earthprints: Andasol Solar Power Station
On a barren, sun-baked plateau in southern Spain, row upon row of gleaming mirrors form one of the world's biggest solar power plants and harness the sun's power even after dark.
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The Future Of Travel
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The Greenest Island in the World?
How people on the smallest of the Canary Islands have turned natural challenges into opportunities.
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Bill Gates: ‘We Need an Energy Miracle’
In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl. He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide could stimulate ingenuity to combat climate change by dramatically increasing spending on research and development. “The push is the R&D,” he said, before indicating the arrow on the right.
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China to invest $78 bn to build 110 nuclear power plants by 2030, will overtake US
China plans to build 110 nuclear power plants by 2030 with an investment of over $78 billion overtaking the US which has 100 such plants amid criticism that Beijing is yet to implement enough measures to develop safety controls in existing projects. China will build six to eight nuclear power plants annually for the next five years and operate 110 plants by 2030 to meet the urgent need for clean energy, Beijing-based China Times quoted plan analysts as saying.
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Egypt has developed a game-changing low-power water desalination technique
About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, but unfortunately most of that liquid nourishment isn’t suitable for drinking because it’s salt water found in the oceans. Removing salt from water is not an easy process, either. Current desalination technology requires a high amount of energy, making it prohibitively expensive — especially in developing nations. But don’t worry: a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt...
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Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project
The Moroccan city of Ouarzazate is used to big productions. On the edge of the Sahara desert and the centre of the north African country’s “Ouallywood” film industry it has played host to big-budget location shots in Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy, The Living Daylights and even Game of Thrones. Now the trading city, nicknamed the “door of the desert”, is the centre for another blockbuster – a complex of four linked solar mega-plants that...
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Google invests in Africa’s largest windfarm
Google announced plans yesterday to take a 12.5% stake in Africa’s largest windfarm, Lake Turkana, once the project becomes operational in 2017. The firm will purchase its stake in the windfarm from Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems, becoming the project’s third largest investor. However, the company did not disclose the value of the deal.
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For the future of solar, we’ve got the tech—it’s the economics, stupid
In the US, the future of solar energy will be made in California. Earlier this month, the state's governor signed legislation that commits California to obtaining half of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. And to some extent, that future is now—the state's utilities are working to meet a goal of one-third renewables by 2020.
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Blowing Off the Grid
Samsø [Denmark] runs on renewable energy—and makes money doing it. By Steve Brodner.
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Unilever Finds That Shrinking Its Footprint Is a Giant Task
Unilever has pledged to cut its environmental impact in half while improving the health of one billion people, but sustainability is turning out to be complicated.
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Elephant Beehive Fence
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Bikes, bowling balls, and the delicate balancing act that is modern recycling
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