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September 26, 2009 05:18 AM EDT
(featured date: October 26, 2009)
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As I discussed in What will power your next car? , solar/PV energy represented a meager 0.081% of the energy produced in the US in 2007, barely more than the 0.066% it produced back in 2000. Renewables' . . .
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October 06, 2009 01:42 AM EDT
(featured date: October 26, 2009)
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Two Detroit Electric vintage cars were parked in front of Old Parliament House in Canberra, last Sunday, making the visual statement that the cars are ready - they have been since 1915 and 1917 . . .
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October 11, 2009 10:53 PM EDT
(featured date: October 26, 2009)
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A team of recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates have made roof tiles that change color with temperature, as described in MIT News .
The tiles turn white in hot weather and . . .
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September 10, 2009 09:14 AM EDT
(featured date: September 19, 2009)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has decided, as French newspaper Le Monde reports: an environmental levy will be introduced with the starting price of 17 euros ($24.8) per ton of CO2.
While the . . .
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September 18, 2009 04:03 AM EDT
(featured date: September 19, 2009)
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First Solar has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.
The facilities will cover 25 square . . .
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July 22, 2009 05:27 AM EDT
(featured date: July 24, 2009)
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On July 19, 2009, the Flightstar e-Spyder flew at South Woodstock doing two flights about 10 minutes each. The plane reached an altitude of 400 feet and speeds of up to 55 mph, according to this article . . .
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July 22, 2009 02:36 AM EDT
(featured date: July 24, 2009)
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The Hydrogen Initiative
Ex-President G. W. Bush loved photo opportunities that portrayed him as an advocate of hydrogen cars. The photo on the right shows Bush inspecting a scooter powered by solid . . .
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June 07, 2009 04:27 AM EDT
(featured date: June 07, 2009)
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Fuji Heavy Industries will start selling the plug-in battery electric Subaru Stella in Japan from July 2009.
The Stella seats four, has a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph) and can travel up to 90km . . .
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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT
(featured date: May 28, 2009)
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What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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April 07, 2009 10:25 AM EDT
(featured date: April 08, 2009)
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The Segway Personal Transporter (pictured right) has been around for years. It was first unveiled in 2001, and produced in 2002. It is self-balancing and users lean forward or backward to go forwards, . . .
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April 02, 2009 01:51 AM EDT
(featured date: April 03, 2009)
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President Obama and Russian President Medvedev have agreed to negotiate a new treaty designed to further reduce and limit strategic weapons.
Their joint statement says:
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March 24, 2009 09:04 PM EDT
(featured date: March 25, 2009)
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China recently called for a World Currency, or global reserve currency , to be operated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) via its Special Drawing Rights (SDR).
The governor of the People’s . . .
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March 22, 2009 07:01 AM EDT
(featured date: March 25, 2009)
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I did a post a while back about a " Climate Skeptics Conference " held in New York City. According to Andrew Revkin, writing in the Scotland in Sunday newspaper, it may just have been a last hurrah . . .
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February 23, 2009 02:09 AM EST
(featured date: February 23, 2009)
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On Monday, March 2, 2009, people from all walks of life and organizations from across the political spectrum will gather for Capitol Climate Action in DC.
People will gather at 1:00pm, at the Spirit . . .
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February 15, 2009 10:31 PM EST
(featured date: February 18, 2009)
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has in many respects underestimated the severity of global warming and the speed at which it strikes. "From 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions . . .
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February 03, 2009 01:10 AM EST
(featured date: February 18, 2009)
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President Obama, please read this!
The energy and environmental policy that you have proposed for the U.S. is a patchwork of policies, ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards and subsidies for . . .
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October 23, 2008 08:23 AM EDT
(featured date: October 23, 2008)
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Professor David Keith of the University of Calgary is working on a device that removes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) directly from ambient air.
Keith has built a tower, 4 feet wide and 20 feet tall, . . .
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August 13, 2008 10:21 PM EDT
(featured date: August 27, 2008)
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Off-shore drilling is a stunt! The perceived need for off-shore drilling is a stunt designed to make it look as if McCain was making efforts to lower oil prices. Oil companies have until now rarely even . . .
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March 21, 2008 10:25 PM EDT
(featured date: March 21, 2008)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that France will reduce its number of airborne nuclear weapons by one third, leaving France with fewer than 300 warheads, mostly on submarines.
"By . . .
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March 03, 2008 10:11 PM EST
(featured date: March 03, 2008)
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Damon Matthews , from Concordia University in Canada, and Ken Caldeira , from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA, used a global climate model to study the impact of reductions of greenhouse . . .
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