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 credit: Andreas Demmelbauer , used under Creative Commons license. Whether it's turning food waste into electricity , keeping bees near its stores , or launching city-wide electric vehicle charging Originally posted here: Solar Panels on Sale at Supermarket
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photo: Eric E Castro / Creative Commons A quick update on some technological shake out in biofuels: Renewable Energy World reports that Shell has quit its last agreement in Read the rest here: Shell Quits Last Algae Biofuel Commitment - Still Backing Ethanol & Cellulosic Biofuels
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Image credit: Solar Tech South / Chapel Hill Tire As I write this post, I'm waiting for my annual car inspection. I'm staring at a flat-screen monitor that communicates just how much power is being channeled down from the 16.4kw PV array on the roof to help power the inspection. It's just one more example of why asking when ...
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photo: Kevin / Creative Commons The biofuel craze passed a while ago and more sober assessments of their promises and problems took over, but that doesn't mean by a long shot that there isn't plenty of interesting ongoing work being done. Here's just a sampling of what's gone on just this week trying to turn plants into power:... Read ...
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"Greenovation" is a new buzz word for Samsung, which held a luncheon yesterday in San Francisco to show of what the company is doing to lighten its environmental footprint as much as possible. Like every electronics manufacturer, Samsung is diligently focused on showing off its energy efficiency and recycling measures. But unlike many manufacturers, the company seems to be ...
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photo: Grace Smith via flickr Some encouraging straight-talking ambition here: In a new policy document Northern Ireland has laid out a good renewable energy target of 40% by 2020. Which would be news enough, but in the text of Strategic Energy Framework for Northern Ireland there's some frank language worth paying attention to no matter where you live.... Read ...
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photo: Yodel Anecdotal/Yahoo! Blog via flickr Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to be outpacing the once world leader in innovation. Reuters reports that Ra... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: India, Malaysia, Philippines, South ...
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Image credit: Pink Dispatcher /Flickr Solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturers produced a record 10,700 megawatts of PV cells globally in 2009—an impressive 51-percent increase from the year before. While growth in 2009 slowed from the remarkable 89-percent expansion in 2008, it continued the rapid rise of an industry that first reached 1,000 megawatts of production in 2004. By the ...
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Bill Clinton at the opening plenary of 2010's Clinton Global Initiative, via Daylife As we know, Bill Clinton has a knack for fostering partnerships between states, businesses, and nonprofits: It's what his annual Global Initiative is all about. That extends even to some unlikely provinces -- like trash, for instance. During the opening plenary of 2010's session, he remarked ...
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The Bhagirathi (left) joins with the Alaknanda (right) in Devprayag and is known as the Ganga from this point onwards. Photo: Wikipedia Good news for the River Ganga! India has cancelled a 600 MW hydropower project on the Bhagirathi River, one of the main tributaries that come together to form the sacred river, citing environmental and religious concerns. Though ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
