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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Solar start-up Veranda Solar wants to change the world of solar power the way Apple changed computers. Veranda got a big head-start on financing the start-up when the company was awarded 100,000€ as runner-up in the PICNIC Green Challenge, funded by the Dutch postcode lottery. The solar panels Veranda uses are nothing special. The prototypes were developed in cooperation ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC "Leave a 100 Watt light bulb on for a year, pay $100." Eric Drexler (sometimes called the father of nanotechnology, or more precisely, of molecular manufacturing ) has been blogging for a little while and he recently had a short post with a useful rule of thumb to estimate electricity costs ins the US, and ...
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all images: Greener Gadgets 1. Tweet-a-Watt You may have seen our pre-competition preview of entries into the 2009 Greener Gadgets Design Competition . There were some really good entries, as well as some (frankly) perplexing ones , but the 'gadget' that came out ahead in audience judging was the Tweet-a-Watt. I put gadget in quotes because this really is ...
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The rest is here: Packing Heat: The Firepower of the Lowly Caulk Gun
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Photo via AP The big ol' budget Obama dropped off last week has funding for many, many things , but evidently none of them are nuclear repositories. Yes indeed, under Obama's proposed budget, we'd be bidding adieu to the notorious Yucca Mountain—the site designated for decades to become our nation's nuclear waste storing house. So what's the plan for ...
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Photo via AP The big ol' budget Obama dropped off last week has funding for many, many things , but evidently none of them are nuclear repositories. Yes indeed, under Obama's proposed budget, we'd be bidding adieu to the notorious Yucca Mountain—the site designated for decades to become our nation's nuclear waste storing house. So what's the plan for ...
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In this short clip watch Joe Lucas, spokesperson for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity , either reveal his entire ignorance of even the most basic parts of how global warming is happening, or entirely dodge the question of whether the industry he represents has any responsibility to reduce emissi... Here is the original: Clean Coal Spokesman 'Doesn't Know' if ...
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Making Energy Efficient Servers Easier to Find The new Energy Star rating for enterprise servers - which was originally supposed to be launched on January 1st, 2009 - is coming on May 1st. Historically, computer servers have been optimized mostly for performance, but in the past few years, power consumption and heat dissipation have become extremely important and this ...
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images: Bellona Undoubtedly you've heard all the talk about clean coal technologies. Leaving aside the absurdity of calling coal clean under any circumstance, the prime technology being referred to in that statement is capturing and storing the carbon emissions from that coal. But CCS could also be deployed at a natural gas or oil-fired power plant to capture emissions. ...
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Powershift 09 Rally on Lawn of the Capitol photo from Fritz Meyr's flickr page Powershift 2009 was an energetic and informative conference that culminated with a march of 3,000 plus young (and young at heart) people demanding clean energy and green jobs. The inclement weather only made the march more inspiring. Other Powershift 2009 highlights included: Protestors visiting their ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
