Tag: Renewable Energy
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Technology can turn waste heat into electricity at temperatures as low as 86 degrees
We've seen heat-to-electricity technologies that work with high temperatures, but this new breakthrough could allow waste heat to be harnessed from many more sources.
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London is building a power plant that burns waste fat from sewers
The discarded fat that can clog the sewer system will now be used as a renewable energy source.
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Epic debate: Amory Lovins vs. Charles C. Mann on the future of oil
Over the past few weeks, The Atlantic has been host to a public debate between Charles C. Mann and Amory B. Lovins about the future of oil and renewable energy and whether we'll see a decline in petroleum use any time soon.
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Researchers discover new way to harvest electricity from plants
Scientists at University of Georgia have developed a way to harvest energy from photosynthesis before the plant uses it.
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Six ways that music festivals can reduce their impact
From the substantial to the symbolic, music festivals around the world are finding ways to get a little greener.
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In 2011, China built as many coal plants as there are in Texas and Ohio combined
Solar and wind are growing fast - by 42% and 19% respectively during the past year - but coal has a much larger installed base, so even much lower growth represents a huge number of new dirty power plants that will pollute for decades to come.
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French zoo to generate its own electricity from panda poo
Thanks to plans underway for a new processing plant to convert waste into electricity, pandas will soon be helping to cut this zoo's energy bill -- with heaps of their potentially-powerful poop.
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Australia can go 100% renewable energy by 2030
Australia is a big producer and user of coal. Black and brown coal represented over 75% of the country's electric power generation in 2008-2009, and vast quantities of the black stuff is exported out of the country, mostly to China.
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After Record 2012, World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013
Even amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide.
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Concept for smarter wave power device a winner in GE's Ecomagination Challenge
The company says this system is simpler than other wave devices that need to be finely tuned to the waves to pick up their energy.
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Moving beyond oil and gas requires willpower more than anything else
One of the main barriers keeping us from making progress on renewable energy is in our minds. I'm not saying that we can dump fossil fuels overnight, or that it will be easy, but we could certainly do a lot more.
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Clean energy under attack from ALEC-backed fake freemarketeers
A state-by-state effort is underway to undermine the renewables industries. Surprise surprise, it's all in the name of "a level playing field".
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9 small (and one big) ways that big box stores can go green
Big box grocery stores aren't usually thought of as green. But from "people powered cash registers" to deliveries by barge, there are ways to make them greener.
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Iowa and South Dakota Approach 25 Percent Electricity from Wind in 2012: Unprecedented Contribution of Wind Power in U.S. Midwest
Defying conventional wisdom about the limits of wind power, in 2012 both Iowa and South Dakota generated close to one quarter of their electricity from wind farms.
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Global wind power capacity may be overestimated
Previous estimates of global wind power capacity may have overestimated the actual peak production limits, according to new research at Harvard University.
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Turbine-equipped urinals help power Carnival in Rio
Thanks to the introduction of new turbine-equipped urinals, full-bladdered merrymakers not only found a more appropriate place to relieve themselves, they actually helped power the party with their pee.
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Solar-powered cell towers bring off-grid energy to remote communities
Powering off-grid mobile phone towers with renewable energy also brings electricity to many areas in dire need of power.
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9 amazing teenagers innovating in cleantech
Not all scientists and inventors are white-haired old men puttering about in a dusty lab. Some of them are just barely old enough to drive.
