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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"Orthographic aerial photograph of Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, in Kingston, Tennessee, taken the day after the event." Photo: Public domain CO2 is Important, But Not the Only Thing David Roberts over at Grist has a great rebuttal of Thom Friedman's latest column in which he and investor... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: Let's ...
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Image: Youtube Cool Statistic of the Day Who knew a hockey game could be so energy-intensive? According to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that oversee's the power grid in Ontario and balances supply and demand, the final hockey game of the Vancouver Olympics (Canada vs USA) created a spike of about 300 megawatts in the province, with additional ...
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Photo via NeoSpire Microsoft has stepped outside of the box when thinking about smart, cheap, efficient data center design. The company is testing out a whole new type of modular data center that boasts recyclable materials, efficient cooling and a LEGO-like method of scaling up as demand requires. The testing is going well, and if it continues, we just ...
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Photo via Marcin Wichary IBM deserves big props today. The company announced earlier this week that it has eliminated the use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) compounds from its chip manufacturing processes - an industry first. The two compounds are toxic to both humans and wildlife, building up in human bodies. Eliminating them from chips helps ...
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Here's a Haitian model of the "Lucia" stove that turns biomass into biochar, and cooks dinner, too. Photo credit WorldStoves via tweetphoto . Biochar, the "co product" of burning wood or agricultural waste in a pyrolitic (oxygen free) environment, has garnered both praise and criticism for its possibilities as a CO2 sequestration tool.... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Photo via Joe Seggiola Well, it's almost no surprise, considering how popular LEDs have become for everything from lighting up thousands of Starbucks shops to fashion-centric crafts . The popularity of LEDs - or light-emitting diodes - is likely to cause a shortage this year, and it could lead to even higher prices for the already expensive t... Read ...
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Photo: Nissan Calm Down, We've Got Your Back Nissan is really determined to become a leader in electric cars. They have a pretty aggressive release schedule for the LEAF, they successfully requested a $1.4B loan from the U.S. DOE , they're working with Hertz to have LEAF rentals , and... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Combatting ...
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Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery's 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. Discovery Channel launches their newest series, another provocative look at the goings-on on our beautiful planet. Will it be as successful as Planet Earth ? On Thursday I joined a small crowd in Los Angeles (I'd call it a gathering, ...
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Images via NOAH There's a reason to practice your iPhone photography skills like Trevor Reichman has done - more and more citizen scientists apps are popping up that put you in the driver's seat for documenting the flora and fauna around your for science's sake. NOAH, or the Networked Organisms and Habitats app is the latest one to crop ...
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Photo via cvander Coming back from the Greener Gadgets conference late last week, one of the topics mentioned - which it was bound to be brought up at some point - is how it is possible to have a green gadget at all. Electronics are inherently an environmentally messy issue, from the mining of materials to the energy use ...
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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 ...
