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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photo: FranceHouseHunt.com / Creative Commons We've covered the issue (or non-issue, depending on which side you're on) of wind farms causing health problems in people living nearby for some time--the whooshing sound is reportedly disruptive of sleep if you're constantly and closely exposed to it. But if you need an overview of s... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Image credit: Good Energy On Tuesday I posted on the fact that more Brits die from cold than Siberians , and George Monbiot's assertion that government and utilities were to blame. One UK company, however, is taking a different path—declaring a winter price freeze as the big utilities jack up their rates. The best part? These guys are 100% ...
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SWT-2.3-82 Wind turbine. Photo: Siemens The Oracle Seems to Like Wind Power MidAmerican , a holding company that is 80% owned by Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway , will expand its wind power capacity in Iowa by almost 600 megawatts (!). This isn't quite a direct endorsement of wind power by the greatest investor of all time (at ...
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A Wind of Change Blows Through Indiana A Reddit user going by the username of QueenBeeCassi has posted a... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: Driving Through a Huge Wind Farm in Indiana (Video)
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Photo Credit: Hydrogen Community Lolland In Denmark, a test community is proving hydrogen power is not 10 years into the future, but that it started back in 2006. On the island of Lolland , located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem - they produced 50 percent more electricity from wind power than ... Read the full ...
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Jeff Rubin quit his job as Chief Economist at a big bank to write Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller . Tyler Hamilton does a terrific interview of him in the Toronto Star, in which Rubin unleashes his usual memorable zingers. Hamilton asks him about where oil prices are going: ... Read the full ...
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Images via Blue Water Satellite Using satellites helps us monitor everything from animal migrations to forest cover to water supply levels. And now Blue Water Satellite has come up with another perfect use -- monitoring toxic blooms of blue-green algae in lakes, rivers and reservoirs. Blue-green algae makes news as a foul-smelling killer found everywhere from China to Original ...
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Some say we are hitting peak oil about now; Rick Prelinger sent this evidence of peak oil in 1963 to the Atlantic Monthly . I don't think it is real, though; who spells Lloyd with one L?... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: A Picture Is Worth: Early Evidence of Peak Oil
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Photo credit: Renew magazine What sets Renew magazine apart from the myriad other eco technology and green lifestyle publications on newstand shelves, is that it has no 'puff pieces', no light reading articles. Rather it's full of gritty, information rich articles about real people achieving real change in their lives. And the current issue just out is no exception. ...
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Date: Kempener & al. BRIMCS = Brazil, Russia, Mexico, China, and South Africa A lot of very smart people have been saying for a very long time that rich countries (see the IEA members here ), and especially the U.S., aren't investing enough in energy R&D. That's sad, because energy is so central to almost everything in modern society, ...
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The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Here is the original: Super Efficient Water Heater is First New Product to Roll Off GE ...
The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Read more here: GE's New Hybrid Water Heater is Super Efficient—and Manufactured in America
