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| U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects
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| posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the
federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on
public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is
expected to take about two years.
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| Revolutionary Solar Dish Is Hot Enough To Melt Steel
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| posted on Monday, June 23, 2008
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The MIT team believes that their lightweight, inexpensive device holds
the promise of revolutionizing the power industry and providing solar
power to even remote regions... The results are staggering -- the completed mirror focuses enough solar
energy at its focal point to melt solid steel. The energy of typical
sunlight is concentrated by a factor of 1,000. This was showcased
during a demonstration, in which a team member held up a board, which
instantly and violently combusted, when brought within range of the
focal point.
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| Scientists Find Bugs That Eat Waste & Excrete Petrol
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| posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008
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“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says
Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late
afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture,
right? But the people I talk to -- especially the ones coming out of
business school -- this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.” He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs --
very, very small ones -- so that when they feed on agricultural waste
such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They
excrete crude oil.
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| Ray Kurzweil On Exponential Technologies
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| posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008
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At the recent World Science Festival in New York City, Ray Kurzweil
outlined why he is certain that the future isn’t as dreary as it’s been
painted, and why we are closer to the incredible than we think:
Exponential upward curves can be deceptively gradual in the beginning.
But when things start happening, they happen fast. Here are a selection
of his predicted trajectories for these “miracles” based on his
educated assessment of where science and technology is at in the
present.
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| Nissan Moving Into Higher Gear On Electric Cars
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| posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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Nissan Motor Co., playing catch-up in fuel-efficient motoring, said
Monday that it and NEC Corp. will invest 115 million dollars to mass
produce new batteries for electric, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles.
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| U.S. Begins To Break Foreign Oil 'Addiction'
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| posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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The US is starting to break its “addiction” to foreign oil as high
prices, more efficient cars, and the use of ethanol significantly cut
the share of its oil imports for the first time since 1977.
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| The Path To Freedom Urban Homesteading Project
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| posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Founded by Jules Dervaes (Dur-VAYS) in 2001, Path to Freedom is a
grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project
established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and
reduce one family's "footprint" on the earth's dwindling resources. Since
the mid 1980s, all five members of the Dervaes family have steadily
worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena, California,
into an organic permaculture garden supplying them with food all year
round.
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| Frustrated Owners Try To Unload Their Guzzlers
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| posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Americans are turning away from the boxy, four-wheel-drive vehicles
that have for years dominated the nation's highways. Sport utility
vehicles and pickup trucks - symbols of Americans' obsession with
horsepower, size, and status - are falling out of favor as consumers
rich and poor encounter sticker shock at the pump, paying upward of $80
to fill gas tanks.
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| Preparing For Hard Times
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| posted on Monday, May 05, 2008
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For three years, my husband has talked about taking to the hills. About
buying a smallholding on Exmoor where, with our four-year-old daughter,
we can safely survive the coming storm -- famine, pestilence and a
total breakdown of society. I would wait for his lectures to finish,
then return to my own interests. I had no time for the end of
civilisation. As an editor on a glossy magazine until a few months ago,
I was too busy. There was always a new Anya Hindmarch bag to buy, or a
George Clooney premiere to attend. But recently, I've wavered. Much of what he has been predicting has
come true: global economic meltdown, looming environmental disaster, a
sharp rise in oil and food prices that has already led to the rationing
of rice in the US, and riots in dozens of countries worldwide.
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