Tag: Germany - Page 6
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20% Of Germany's Electricity Now Comes From Renewable Energy
photo: Jason/CC BY-ND Germany's strong push in renewable energy over recent years is paying off. According to Der Spiegel (via Mongabay), Germany now produces 20.8% of its electricity from renewable sources. That's an increase of 15 percentage points
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Solar Cheaper Than Coal by 2013 in Parts of Europe
It's little wonder that the oil- and coal-friendly conservative media is continuing its crusade against solar, and publishing deliberately distorted numbers on the economics of clean energy. (One blog referred to the Solyndra bankruptcy using the
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Glowing "Soldiers" Represent Nuclear Threat in Creepy Art Exhibit
In the wake of the disaster at Fukushima, the German parliament voted overwhelmingly to rid the country of nuclear power by 2022. But while anonymous artistic group Luzinterruptus applauds the
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Wretched Excess Dept.: A Parking Space With A View
A wealthy Italian client once told me to put a ceramic tiled floor with radiant heat under his Ferrari. He said "a Ferrari is like a woman, you have to give her a nice place to live and keep her warm." I have no
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How About An Entire Book On A Single Poster To Save Paper And Space?
For a while I have been thinking of getting a Kindle. It saves trees and eliminates the impact of transportation and with Amazon's recycling scheme in place as well as the fairly long lifespan of the Kindle, the problem of e-waste seems less worrying
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How Public Opinion Drives Deep Green Trends in Germany
Germans reacted to the nuclear crisis in Japan by calling for a phasing out of all its nuclear power plants. They then reacted to the need to meet a newly minted energy demand by calling for more renewable energy. Public attitudes to green growth is so
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Endless Chair Goes Straight From Lineland to Spaceland, Skips Flatland
One of the winners of the top award at the International Design Festival Berlin was Endless by Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij. He melts down refrigerators for the plastic raw material, extrudes it into a string, and then has a robot
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German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Uses
We've seen one UK town aim for 30% renewables by 2015, and the United Arab Emirates' Masdar is often touted as the world's first clean energy city. But few communities could beat the huge push for renewables seen in Wildpoldsried, Germany, a town which
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Compost & Grow Food Indoors With "Parasite Farm" By Charlotte Dieckmann & Nils Ferber
Indoor composting can seem like a daunting proposition if you're an apartment dweller who's short on space and time. Plus, with so many indoor systems out there, which one is the right one and how would it fit efficiently
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Desperate Hunt for a Runaway Cow Resorts to an Animal Psychic and a €10,000 Reward
In late May, a cow named Yvonne decided not to be eaten, and broke through an electric fence to escape from the farm in Bavaria where she was being fattened for slaughter. Since then, she has been on the
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Community-Owned Wind Farms Cure NIMBYism
Sometimes there is a fine line between the insightful and the just plain obvious. We've said before that community-ownership of wind power can be a great way to reduce NIMBYism and
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Recycled Clothes & Resin For Funky Furniture By Tobias Juretzek
From farmhouse beams, to refrigerators and naval mines, furniture made from old -- and odd -- materials is nothing new, but what about furniture that's made from clothing? Defying expectations of what mere clothing can do, German
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Germany Passes More Aggressive Renewables Law, Bucks Rumors
It's been a little hard to follow the state of German renewables of late. We've already seen massive growth of renewable energy due to aggressive feed-in tariffs, and even arguments from within the Government that the country should go 100% renewable
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Architects Build Gorgeous Mobile Police Box From Shipping Container Frame
This is different: Dezeen shows a police box in front of the Turkish Consulate in Hanover. The police used to sit in an old Volkswagen van, but an architect with the German firm Gesamtkonzept proposed something better, and
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German Parliament Accepts 2022 Nuke Shutdown Proposal
Photo: Flickr, CC 513 Yays, 79 Nays Here's a quick update on the situation regarding nuclear power in Germany. About a month ago, Brian wrote about a proposal by Chancellor Angela Merkel to phase out nuclear power by 2022. We also covered the resulting
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Stay a Night in a Bridge Made from Reclaimed Wood, Built Over a River-to-Be
Looking at the bridge, you wonder what it's doing there. It sits on dry, flat land. It doesn't connect anything to anything else. And its zig-zagging shape doesn't exactly scream practicality. That's because this is
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Wind-Powered Mosque Planned for German Town
The tall spire that is often the most distinctive architectural feature of a mosque, a minaret is important as the place from which the Islamic call to prayer is issued five times a day. In one small Muslim
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German Firm e-WOLF Will Produce the Alpha-2 Electric Sportscar
It looks like a Lamborghini Gallardo, and sounds like a Ferrari. Of course, the engine roars from a speaker box, because this car is all electric. With two electric motors offering 187
