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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Excuse the helicopters. It was surprisingly hard to find an image of the Gloucester facility. Image credit: Holt Logistics When I wrote about Renault's 60MW solar project in France , I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these days in the world of solar power. No sooner do I write about a refrigerated warehouse ...
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Heated water running through Paris' sewers will be put to use heating a school. Photo: Shadowgate under a Creative Commons license . Paris has been on an alternative energy roll as of late: installing hydropower turbines in the Seine , testing the limits of urban wind power and using solar power to Original post: A Paris School Turns to the ...
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image: Michael Betke / Creative Commons There've been a bunch of stories lately about solar power installations doubling last year (see related links below) and here's another: The Read the rest here: World's New Solar Power Installations Doubled in 2010 - Total Capacity Up 70%
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Photo: No Fish Left The prospect of drilling for oil in Arctic waters has long made Americans and Canadians queasy (if not their oil companies), and for good reason: the frigid cold, dangerous waters, and difficult-to-navigate coastal terrain. An offshore spill in the Arctic would be devastating, and exceedingly tough to contain. But faced with dwindling onshore supplies, Russia ...
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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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Image credit: Neil Kelley , used under Creative Commons license. With Colony Collapse Disorder continuing to wreak havoc on bee colonies , some beekeepers have been looking to hardier, less domesticated bees to build up a stronger gene pool. From the native stingless bees of Australia to the View original post here: Are Solar-Powered Bee Hives a Good Idea?
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Image credit: Marjukka Grover, used with permission. A few years back I wrote about my own experiences with installing solar water heating . Now my parents have got one up on me. The photo above is of the house I grew up in. As of two weeks ago, this house is partially powered by electricity from the sun. With ...
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Photo: Inhabitat One Will be Among Nation's Largest Southern California Edison just signed on to build and run seven new solar power plants in the state. When they're all online, the deal will have effectively doubled Edison's total solar capacity. And that's not all -- one of the projects will be the biggest solar power plant in the nation.... ...
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Image via Technabob Solar powered e-readers. It was just a matter of time, right? LG put out a solar powered e-reader prototype over a year ago, though the solar cell was embedded in a case, rather than the device itself. When looking at Toshiba's latest e-reader, we're starting to think that LG might have been on the smarter track. ...
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Five years ago I wrote about my new iPod Nano , the 1 ounce, 8 dram wonder that I called the green product of the year. I wrote that it "demonstrates that brilliant design can let us all live as well or better than we do now in less space, using fewer resources and with a smaller footprint. The ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
