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
published May 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Slash Gear So it might not have been on the level of sheer pointlessness represented by the spoon-with-built-in-scale pictured above, but my post on "talking tires" prompted Joe to opine that there are now "too much electronics in cars that just over complicates things when it comes to servicing and extra energy." And Joe might have a ...
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photo: lacp.org For Californians, June 8, 2010, primary day, is quickly approaching. As it does advertisements are flooding radio and TV about Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown and Proposition 16. Proposition 16 has been labeled by proponents as the "Taxpayers Right to Vote Act," but as TreeHugger readers know, names can often be misleading. Opponents have labeled the measure the ...
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Here's what $30 million gets you if you're in the market for a new radar... photo: Lockheed Martin Remember a little while back when the US Air Force was objecting to the Shepherds Flat wind farm in Oregon because it could interfere with its radar systems. Over in the UK, the RAF had expressed similar concerns about offshore wind ...
Read more...published April 29, 2010 and has No Comments
This is a guest post from founder and CEO of re:char Jason Aramburu. TREEHUGGER: What are the major advances have you seen (in your field) during the past 40 years? What, if any, were the major failures? JASON ARAMBURU: I think one of the greatest advancements we've seen in renewable energy recently is cost reduction. Companies like GE continue ...
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photo: Andy S-D via flickr. Take this one as a bump in the road more than a roadblock: Renewable Energy World reports that a design flaw in how some offshore wind turbines attach to their base has caused hundreds of them to slide several centimeters since installation. Though not expected to delay new projects or c... Read the full ...
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photo: Amtrak Amtrak is the latest company to try to put waste products of factory farming to use as fuel. Smart Planet reports that for the next year Amtrak will test biodiesel made from beef tallow on it's Heartland Flyer route from Fort Worth, Texas to Oklahoma City. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: Mooving On ...
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Photo copyright Sergio Carratalá One of our favourite places at this year's Milan furniture fair was definitely the Gallery Rossana Orland i, a truly magical place. It is there, alongside FormaFantsama , that we discovered the Bike Lamp by Gionata Gatto, an Italian designer who based his studio Atuppertu in the Netherlands. The Lamps are so fresh from the ...
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All photos: Green Tackle Micah Carrick dropped us a line, if you'll pardon the pun, regarding environmentally friendly recreational fishing. As the proprietor of the US-based online eco fishing store, Green Tackle, Micah had a few pearls of wisdom for anglers wanting to leave less of an impact. The tips included choosing fishing weights not made from lead, which ...
Read more...published April 1, 2010 and has No Comments
A facade covered with Piksols on a sunny day. Image by Drzach & Suchy (more images below) After flexible solar panels and spray-on solar cells , Drzach & Suchy , an architect who works in Basel and a cryptographer and software engineer who works in Zurich, have designed Piksol ; a solar pix... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Image credit: NREL There's long been speculation that thin-film solar could compete with fossil fuels in the near future. So when the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory produced record-breaking thin-film solar cells that achieved 19.9% efficiency in laboratory testing, people were rightly excited. But how do you take idealized lab results,... Read the full story on TreeHugger See more ...
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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
