Tag: Renewable Energy
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Ikea Light Collection Powered By Sun And Wind
The new lamps offered by Ikea profess the company's support for clean energy, and use renewable resources to light up your backyard.
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Inside Northwestern's Off-the-Grid Tiny House
Northwestern's Tiny House Project shows how we can live smaller and more sustainable.
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Viruses Create Electricity with New Gadget-Charging Technology
Researchers have figured out how to use viruses to create electricity in a new piezoelectric technology that could power small electronics through human movement.
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Grid-Scale Metal Liquid Batteries Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy Use
Almost every week, I see some R&D project or lab prototype that makes me go "ooh, that's interesting!". But it's rather rare that I encounter something that makes me rethink my whole vision of the future!
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Sleek Wooden Wind Turbine Is an Antidote to NIMBYism
A new turbine design, with wooden blades, is powered by wind coming from any direction.
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Siemens Develops Modular Power Storage for Renewable Energy
Siemens has designed a lithium-ion battery storage system that backs up renewable energy projects by buffering power to the grid.
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How the Energy Grid Actually Works
Renewables advocate Robert Llewellyn visits the National Grid control center to ask some tough questions.
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Online Video Channel for Clean Technology Showcases Innovations Around the World
Future360.tv wants learning about cleantech innovations to be as easy as watching YouTube.
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How Solar is Giving African Kids Super Powers
Cheap LED lanterns are transforming lives in Africa, allowing communities to leapfrog 20th Century technology and enter the solar age.
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Pinning the Cloud: Pinterest, Cloud Computing and the Environment
Pinterest is quickly growing and using cloud servers to host all of those new pins, but what is the real footprint of this and what could make it better?
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Solar Sales Drop 90% After UK Subsidies Slashed
When it comes to Government support for renewables, "how dependable" is at least as important a question as "how much".
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Cool DIY Hydropower Kits for Kids
If you're looking for a perfect gift for a smart kid, this is a great educational game.
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Help End Energy Poverty, Take the Power the World Pledge
Power the World has already brought solar lights to Haiti, now it's working to bring solar powered healthcare kits to Uganda + get a million signatures so that policymakers know we care about ending energy poverty.
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How to Solarize Your Street: Starting a Solar Coop
Going solar on your own home is cool. But what if you could persuade all your neighbors to do it too?
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Mexico Unanimously Passes New Climate & Energy Law
Somehow this one passed us by, a pretty glaring omission: Mexico has passed a serious climate change and renewable energy law. It's just the second time that a nation has put long-term climate targets into national law.
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Greenpeace and Apple Face Off Over Apple's "Dirty Cloud"
Greenpeace's latest report claims Apple relies heavily on coal power for its cloud operations but the numbers don't quite add up.
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Ask the Experts: Why Hasn't the US Tapped Into Its Geothermal Power Potential More?
With the abundant geothermal potential of the United States, what are the biggest barriers to tapping into that renewable energy source? Leslie Blodgett of Geothermal Energy Weekly answers.
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US Led World in Clean Energy Investment for 2011
Pew Charitble Trusts has just released its assessment of clean energy investment for 2011, with the US pulling ahead of China to retake first place.
