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'Stirling' power should propel spacecraft, experts say

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - Feb. 02 - 'Stirling' power should propel spacecraft, experts say

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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Officials Confirm Criminal Election Fraud Investigation of Gingrich Campaign

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Brad Blog - Jan. 31 (News) - Had the same thing been carried out by a worker for the now-defunct ACORN, Republicans -- and even Newt Gingrich -- would have called it massive "voter fraud". But the 1,500 acts of fraud, by Gingrich's own admission, were carried out by a worker hired by his campaign, so ...

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Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Consortiumnews.com - Jan. 30 - Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

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Project to pour water into volcano to make power

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By editor@mercurynews.com (

By Jeff Barnard

Associated Press

) - Jan. 15 - Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.

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Automakers in a race for buyers of mid-size family cars

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jerry Hirsch - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Ford, GM, Honda and Nissan are all rolling out revamped models this year, with added features and better gas mileage.

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Kim Jong Un Leads Funeral Procession For His Father

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Dec. 28 (News) - Wailing and clutching at their hearts, tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday as the hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.

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Hemp bootstraps superior technologies, rescues capitalism from cannibalistic culture | End the Lie - Independent News

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

endthelie.com - By Justin Michels - Dec. 02 (News) - Our economic crisis is directly associated with a crippling dependence on unsustainable resources and their ever-growing scarcity. Developing sustainable resources is a necessary precursor to rebuilding the various manufacturing industries, which must again become the backbone of this great nation. True to legend, the industrial hemp plant stands ready for this monumental task. Offering not only an infinitely valuable resource, but also sobering lessons for the evolution of capitalism and American culture.

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Warmth In Winter: Smart Windows To Let Heat In

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Nov. 29 - Windows treated with an insulating film are twice as efficient as regular double-pane windows, since they block heat from entering a building. That's useful on warm days, but inefficient when it's cold. One lab is researching a new coating that could be turned on and off with an electrical current.

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Rural Peru gets connected | Mattia Cabitza

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Mattia Cabitza - Nov. 28 - More than 100 communities in rural Peru now have renewable energy and internet access, thanks to an aid programme that is being rolled out across the eight poorest nations in Latin America The connection was not of crisp video quality, but the chorus of schoolchildren from San José de Huamaní, near Ica in the south, could be heard loud and clear: "Good morning," they chanted. Hundreds of kilometres away, they were greeted with applause, through video link, by a brightly lit conference room full of Peruvian and European Union officials. They were meeting in Lima to announce the completion of an aid programme that is taking renewable energy and the internet to 130 rural communities in Peru. With funding from the EU, the Euro-Solar programme is being rolled out across the eight poorest nations of Latin America, such as Peru, at a cost of €36m ($47.6m/£30.9m). The aim is to benefit more than 300,000 people whose communities are not connected to the electricity grid. Via satellite ...

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America’s Not Broke: Solving the Debt Crisis By Making Nation More Equitable, Green & Secure

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 22 (News Analysis) - The bipartisan so-called "supercommittee" has failed to reach an agreement on reducing the federal deficit after three months of negotiations over taxes and spending. The full Congress will now have a little over a year to come up with an alternative. A trigger of $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over 10 years to military and domestic programs takes effect in 2013. “What people need to remember is that we are a rich country and that this crisis is actually an opportunity to harness our abundant resources in ways that will position us better for the future,” says Sarah Anderson, co-author of a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, “America Isn’t Broke: “How to Pay for the Crisis While Making the Country More Equitable, Green, and Secure.” [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Is the end of the world really nigh?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Alok Jha - Nov. 20 (Special Report) - All too real are the human-caused threats born of climate change, excess pollution, depletion of natural resources and the madness of nuclear weapons. We tinker with our genes and atoms at our own peril. Nanotechnology, synthetic biology and genetic modification offer much potential in giving us better food to eat, safer drugs and a cleaner world, but they could also go wrong if misapplied or if we charge on without due care.

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Energy Costs to Rise 'Viciously' Without Atomic Power, IEA Says

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:55:55 -0800

Bloomberg - By Lananh Nguyen - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - Energy will become "viciously more expensive" and polluting if governments don't promote renewable and nuclear power in the next two decades instead of burning coal, the International Energy Agency said. Global demand for energy is set to increase 40 percent by 2035, the Paris-based agency said today in its annual World Energy Outlook report. Consumption will rise 1.3 percent a year to 16.96 billion metric tons of oil equivalent in 2035, spurred by China and other emerging economies, the IEA said. The worst atomic accident in 25 years at the Fukushima plant in Japan on March 11 led Germany, Europe's biggest economy, to close eight of its 17 reactors permanently. Nuclear plants generate power continuously while emitting virtually no greenhouse gases. Without nuclear, keeping world temperature gains at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) will cost an extra $1.5 trillion through 2035, the IEA said. "If we do not have an international legally binding agreement soon, and if it doesn't give a boost to a major investment wave of clean energy technologies by 2017, the door to 2 degrees will be closed forever," Fatih Birol, the IEA's chief economist in Paris, said in an interview yesterday. A shift away from nuclear power "would definitely be bad news for energy security, for climate change and also for the economics of the electricity price."

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Here Comes The Sun

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power. If that surprises you, if you still think of solar power as some kind of hippie fantasy, blame our fossilized political system, in which fossil fuel producers have both powerful political allies and a powerful propaganda machine that denigrates alternatives.

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Will Clean Energy Ever Be a Reality in the U.S.? Here's What's Standing in Our Way

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Steven Wishnia - Oct. 05 (News Analysis) - So what are the obstacles to converting the U.S. electrical system to renewable energy? They are a mix of technological, economic and political factors.

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What The Press Is Getting Wrong About Solyndra

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - FACT: Same Panel Of Career Officials Approved The Loan Guarantee Bush Admin. Advanced 16 Projects, Including Solyndra, Out Of 143 Submissions. The Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and expanded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. At a congressional hearing, Jonathan Silver, the Executive Director of Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, testified that the Bush administration's DOE [Department of Energy] selected Solyndra from 143 submissions to move forward in the process:

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Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Nature - By Xiangnan Dang, Hyunjung Yi, Moon-Ho Ham, Jifa Qi, Dong Soo Yun, Rebecca Ladewski, Michael S. Strano, Paula T. Hammond , Angela M. Belcher - Sep. 19 (Special Report) - we report the synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotube–TiO2 nanocrystal core–shell nanocomposites using a genetically engineered M13 virus as a template. By using the nanocomposites as photoanodes in dye-sensitized solar cells, we demonstrate that even small fractions of nanotubes improve the power conversion efficiency by increasing the electron collection efficiency.

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Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war'

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Carole Cadwalladr - Sep. 11 - He may live a modest life in a one-horse town, but Jimmy Carter, now 86, retains his global vision. And 30 years after leaving the White House, the peanut farmer turned president is still a man on mission. In Plains, Georgia, we found the 39th US president full of energy… and determined to make a difference Where does Jimmy Carter live? Well, close your eyes and imagine the kind of house an ex-president of the United States might live in. The sort of residence befitting the former leader of the most powerful nation on earth. Got it? Right, now scrub that clean from your mind and instead imagine the sort of house where a moderately successful junior accountant and his family might live. It's what in America is called a "ranch house", or, as we'd say, "a bungalow". There are no porticoes. No columns. No sweeping lawns. There's just a small brick single-storey structure that Jimmy and his wife, Rosalynn, built on Woodland Drive back in 1961 when he was a peanut farmer and she was a peanut ...

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Even with presidents and hurricanes, it's calm here

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - Aug. 28 - Locals and vacationers alike chill out in this corner of Martha's Vineyard, despite the approaching storm. 'Who needs electricity?' remarks one.On Friday morning, as President Obama juggled conference calls and drafted a statement on the approaching hurricane from his retreat at Blue Heron Farm, the hub of activity in this onetime sheepherding town was five miles west at the Chilmark General Store.

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Southeast a holdout in mandating renewable energy

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By By RAY HENRY, Associated Press - Aug. 06 - Southeast a holdout in mandating renewable energy

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UK sails ahead in offshore wind power

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Fiona Harvey - Jul. 27 (News) - The UK has sailed ahead in offshore wind power generation in the past six months, building more offshore windfarms than any other country in the world, and accounting for almost all of the turbines erected in European waters this year.

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What a population of 7 billion people means for the planet

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jul. 18 - With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on the environment is hard to ignore Demographers aren't known for their sense of humor, but the ones who work for the United Nations recently announced that the world's human population will hit 7 billion on Halloween this year. Since censuses and other surveys can scarcely justify such a precise calculation, it's tempting to imagine that the UN Population Division, the data shop that pinpointed the Day of 7 Billion, is hinting that we should all be afraid, be very afraid. We have reason to be. The 21st century is not yet a dozen years old, and there are already 1 billion more people than in October 1999 — with the outlook for future energy and food supplies looking bleaker than it has for decades. It took humanity until the early 19th century to gain its first billion people; then another 1.5 billion followed over the next century and a half. In just the last 60 years the world's population has ...

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Climate Change and Disaster in Montana

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Naomi Klein, - Jul. 17 (News Analysis) - 'So the flooding may have caused the pipeline spill. But here is the really uncomfortable question: Did the pipeline cause the flooding? Not this one particular pipeline, of course, but all the pipelines, and all the coal trains, and all the refineries and the power plants they supply?'

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Vancouver green push goes to the next level

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Vancouver Sun - By Jeff Lee - Jul. 13 (News Report) - For nearly three years, Vancouver has been working on a plan to become the “greenest city” in the world by 2020. It has taken baby steps, such as bringing in separated bike lanes downtown, allowing backyard chickens and setting minimum efficiency standards for all new building construction. But now the city says it plans to make changes over the next nine years that will radically alter how businesses, homeowners, government and its partners deal with the environment. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Vancouver+green+push+goes+next+level/5091821/story.html#ixzz1S1boCwdJ

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Why the Southwest is burning

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Jul. 09 - By william debuys Writers on the Range Published Jul 8, 2011 04:25PM MDT No big thing happens for just one reason. This season’s fires, cutting broad swaths across the Southwest, result from the convergence of three powerful forces: climatic drought, institutional tunnel vision, and old-fashioned human frailty. On the face of it, the drought is simple: There hasn’t been much rain or snow across much of the region, and the forests are tinder dry. Many people ask if climate change might be a factor. A definite answer is both impossible and obvious to give — impossible ... ...

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The ungreen city — or the polluting countryside?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Chris Smaje - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - City‐dwellers have public transport, efficient buildings and services, everything near at hand; their country cousins travel by car and their services have to be brought long distances. City living damages the planet less. So says the new orthodoxy — but is it true?Chris Smaje asks if cities are really greener.

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