Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Image via Porsche Most of the excitement at Geneva this year didn't come from the announcement of new production model cars. No, the task of riling up the auto press was left to the hyper-fuel efficient vehicle concepts trotted out by carmakers that represent the best prospects for the cars of the future. Thankfully, there were a slew of ...
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Image: Angewandte Chemie, Wiley Sunlight + Water = Hydrogen Gas Scientists at the University of East Anglia, led by Dr. Thomas Nann, report a breakthrough in the production of hydrogen from water using the energy of sunlight. Amidst all the hype about a potential hydrogen economy, which would rely upon the highly energetic and clean burning hydrogen atom, one ...
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Image credit: Smart Log Splitter From effective masonry heaters to beautiful Danish wood stoves , the Scandinavians know a thing or two about heating with wood. And as Collin stated in his post on wood stoves vs pellet stoves , with trees being a near carbon neutral source of energy, efficient wood burn... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Hybrid Porsche. Photo via Carmaker If you were, say, a Mennonite, a cave dweller, or this guy , and you showed up to the Geneva Motor Show , you'd probably make some pretty interesting (and incorrect) inferences about the current state of the car world. You'd think that about one in four people drove a hybrid, that tiny electric ...
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Image: Clean Energy Works March 2-4: Contact Your Elected Representatives A new campaign pushing for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in the U.S. is underway. It's called " 72 Hours For Clean American Power ", and it urges Americans to contact their elected representatives, write letters to newspapers, and spread the word on social media sites (f.ex. check ...
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Image credit: We Want Facebook to Use 100% Renewable Energy It's already well known that Facebook is caught between a rock and a Greenpeace with its decision to move to a power-hungry coal-fired data center. And even though Facebook could eliminate 75% of its energy use by changing its code , at its present rate of growth it is ...
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Image credit: Good With the technology available today, powering an airplane with solar power doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But this isn't keeping people from trying. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, specifically, are working to build a solar airplane that could circle the planet.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original: Flying Around the World Powered ...
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16 gigawatts is a lot of power. The average nuclear power plant in operation today provides less than just one gigawatt of power (I believe the average is around 850 MW). Which is why it's good news that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , otherwise known as the stimulus bill , is on track to add 16 GW ...
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Smart grid for dummies. Video credit:IEEE, ScienCentral More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of managing an electricity system. Existing electrici... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Smarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers
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Image credit: MarineLog From reporting on the early days of the SkySails propulsion system back in 2005, through following the first kite-powered trans-atlantic crossing , to the discussion of SkySails as a risk to aircraft , TreeHugger has been an excited proponent of bringing wind back into shipping. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original post here: World's ...
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Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in ...
Image credit: Andrew Zuckerman When Andrew Zuckerman , a renowned commercial photographer, turned his lens on animals, the result was a series of striking images that resonate with emotion. Collected in his book Read more from the original source: Captivating ...
