On a hot summer day, 20% of your gasoline vaporizes into the air instead of powering your engine. This volume of gasoline becomes un-burnt hydrocarbon air pollutant and at a car population of 230...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 12, 2006
After cars, planes will be flying on hydrogen. Just ask the researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology who have successfully test piloted a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft. Flying on a...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 12, 2006
Germany's biggest solar electric plant opened last September 1 in the southern German state of Bavaria. It also happens to be the world's largest solar electric plant. With more than 1,400...
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A lone timber jack bundles old wood, rotting timber, and other forest wastes in North America. It's a growing trend, as more and more people are beginning to see just how substitutable biomass can...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 12, 2006
Sharp Corporation of Japan, the world's biggest manufacturer of solar cells said that the cost of generating solar power will decrease by half by 2010 and will be comparable to nuclear power...
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This September, 5.1 million customers of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., California;s largest utility, will find not just their power and gas bills for the month, but also a petition to...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 10, 2006
The Chewonki Foundation of Wiscasset, Maine has unveiled a $250,000 hydrogen power generator that is touted as a cutting-edge example of hydrogen technology that can reduce fossil fuel dependence and...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 10, 2006
Wind is in the truest sense of the word, renewable. It is available all over, its intensity is neither affected by oil prices nor political affairs, it does not emit any harmful Green House Gas, and...
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My high school friend sent me this cartoon about how people cant afford gasoline prices nowadays (surprised?). Its supposed to be funny but when you remove the trippy song and the obvious punch lines,...
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After reading several reports on Indonesian and Malaysian virgin forests being plundered to give way to palm oil plantations or South American forests being "developed" into Earth-saving...
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So Spain isn't the only country interested in those green creatures you find in your swimming pool. Apparently, so is Israel. Israel-based alga Technologies is looking for an alternative to the...
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Renewable Energy development does not benefit from the bandwagon effect. Okay, so maybe it does. However, its dependence on popularity is by no means the driving force behind its current acceptance. I...
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According to the UN, an estimate 850 million people suffer from hunger today. Adding to the Herculean task of the UN of finding a solution to end hunger is the potential complication of increased...
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by Reden Rodriguez on September 03, 2006
The Germans have the Autobahn, a road that services the fastest cars the Germans can make. The Norwegians have a similarly differentiated yet shorter highway, but this one wants to help save the air....
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The Osaka Prefecture may be the first producers of Bioethanol coming from wood. The Japanese Environment Ministry has recently launched a project to mass produce eco-friendly Bioethanol fuel from wood...
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By the end of last month (August 2006), venture funding for renewable energy was reported by Boston.Com to have reach up to $445.1 M in total investments in the first six months of this year. This is...
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