clean energy
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ExxonMobil is expanding a partnership with FuelCell Energy to combined carbon capture and sequestration with carbonate fuel cells.
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North America's largest coal power plant to become 44-MW solar farm
The site of an Ontario power plant will become a solar farm.
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Bill Gates, Other Billionaires Invest To Advance Clean Energy
Bill Gates and other billionaires plan to coordinate investments in clean energy.
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From Sunlight To Electricity: First Optical Rectenna Created In Lab
Researchers claim to have created the first "rectenna" to operate on optical wavelengths.
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Computers To Heat Your Home? Startup Nerdalize Distributes Server Farms To Dutch Residences
A Dutch startup uses servers to heat homes.
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Wind, Natural Gas, Solar Provide More U.S. Power, Replacing Coal
Wind, natural gas, and solar power generation are set to increase in 2015 while coal decreases, government figures say.
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Costa Rica claims to have powered itself entirely with renewable sources, mostly hydroelectric.
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GM Lauds Greenest Dealers, Shares Best Practices For Cutting Energy Use
General Motors launches its Green Dealer Recognition program to encourage energy-efficient practices.
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New Honda 'Green Dealer Guide' Spells Out Energy Efficiency For Dealership Buildings
Honda translated lessons learned from its green-dealer program into a set of voluntary guidelines.
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Some Solar, Wind Power Competes With Natural Gas Without Incentives: Study
Fossil fuels have been an integral part of the industrialized world since it began 250 years ago. While renewable, carbon-free energy sources have long been viewed as the ideal solution, they were always more expensive than pumping carbon into the air. That may now have changed, according to a new...
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Honda Opens Demonstration Smart Home, With Fit EV Electric Car In Garage
The Honda Smart Home represents about 2000 square feet of energy efficient living
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Long-Lived Clean Power: Wind Turbines Last 25 Years, Study Says
A British study claims that wind turbines can last 25 years without the need for upgrades or replacement.
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European buyers waiting for an electric Toyota may have quite some time to wait--until the electric grid cleans up, basically. That's the word from Toyota Europe, which says it wants to see cleaner electricity generation before it commits to electric vehicles. According to Responding to Climate Change, the automaker sees "little sense" in electric vehicles if the grid powering them isn't largely supplied by renewable energy. “We need to cooperate with the electricity providers so that what we present to the market, in its totality, is a clean solution, otherwise we’d prefer to...
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World's Largest Coal Company To Use Solar Power In Bid To Cut Energy Costs
It's perfectly reasonable to be skeptical when an alternative energy organization says we should move away from fossil fuels, and likewise reasonable to be skeptical when the fossil fuel industry says we have nothing to worry about. But when the world's largest coal producer turns to solar power...
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California Takes The Lead In Using Batteries For Grid Storage
We all know producing electricity is an energy-intensive process, but the complications don't stop at how utilities generate that power. Demand for electricity ebbs and flows, and often doesn't correlate with generating capacity. One way of dealing with these fluctuations in supply and demand is to...
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Electric-Car Myths & Realities And NYC Rollout Plans (Videos)
If you publish thousands of stories a year, sometimes you get asked to speak to groups of people about your topic. Which is how we came to talk about electric cars and try to allay some popular myths to a group of New York City activists called the Sane Energy Project. In the person of cheerful...
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Lotus Mobile: A Portable, Affordable Solar Charging Solution?
Given millions of years of adaptation to conditions, it's no surprise that nature is pretty good at doing what it does. Each leaf on a tree, and indeed the shape of a tree's canopy, is the work of refinements over millenia to capture the most sunlight possible to ensure the tree's growth. Why not...
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Could Carmakers Sell More Electric Cars With Green Energy Included?
In our experience, owners of electric vehicles are also rather keen on green energy. Where appropriate, many fit solar panels to supply some of their energy needs, and others use green energy tariffs and similar. As it turns out, marrying the two is a good way of enticing people into electric...
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It wasn't until 2 am yesterday morning that the U.S. Senate voted 89 to 8 to approve a bill to avert the "fiscal cliff" that took effect on New Year's Day. The House of Representatives then took an entire day of political wrangling before voting 257-167 to approve the Senate bill late yesterday. But the final measure turns out to contain some good news for green energy, long a priority of president Barack Obama. As Reuters reports, the 157-page bill contains an "eclectic mix" of "sweetener" provisions, among them roughly a dozen relating to green energy. Many of the legislators who voted on...
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Five Reasons Buying a Hybrid Prius Won't Save the Planet
The 2012 Toyota Prius gets the best EPA-rated gas mileage--50 miles per gallon combined--of any non-plug-in car sold in the U.S. But the Prius hybrid sometimes gets a bad rap. At least some of it is due to the notorious (and very funny) South Park episode in which a deadly attack of Smug afflicts...
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Brine: Key To Cheaper, Longer-Lasting Electric Car Batteries?
There may not be a magic bullet for battery technology, but improvements can come from the most unlikely places. One of those is the San Andreas fault in California, where one of battery tech's futures is bubbling out of the ground. As a tectonic fault line, the area is a great source of geothermal...
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Can An Electric Car Cut Solar Panel Payback Time? Yes, But...
If you’re a homeowner with a suitable home and enough money to invest in a set of photovoltaic solar panels for your roof, you can easily power your home cheaply and cleanly. But while some states offer Feed In Tariff (FIT) schemes to let you sell back any excess power your solar panels...
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For Your Consideration: A Handful Of Energy Facts To Ponder
It's pretty clear that the United States has absolutely no energy policy at the moment. Attempts at long-term planning to reduce energy use are largely stalled in the toxic atmosphere of no-holds-barred politics, with the exception of tougher gas-mileage rules for 2017-2025 vehicles that were...
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Tesla Electric Car Plus Solar Power Equals Zero-Cost Driving (Video)
Mike Koenigs is also a true Tesla and clean power activist
George Parrott