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Apr 22, 2010

Wisconsin Nuclear power plant measure fizzles

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Nuclear power plant construction likely will be just as difficult to accomplish after the legislative session as it was before. HTML clipb...

DOE - National Collaboration on LED Street Lights

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that Seattle City Light, Seattle's publicly owned power utility, has been selected t...
Apr 21, 2010

Happy Earth Day From Les Phillip?

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"I'll give you a couple of examples of what we need to get rid of: the Department of Energy, EPA, OSHA and IRS." - Les Philli...
Apr 20, 2010

Pickens and Obama about "the big problem"

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This week China Invested $20 Billion in securing of nearly 15% U.S. oil in Venezuela... Foreign Oil: China has a plan. We don't. ...

Oil Quote of the week:"because it's a cartel maximizing its share"

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This quote is as relevant as much as it is irrelevant... as it could of been pulled from headlines of the 70's or 80's "By us...

Finally Congress to Address Helium Shortage

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Congress to Address Helium Shortage Hurting Scientific Research and Nuclear Security (popSci) Failure to recognize an impending supply sque...
Apr 19, 2010

Presentations from DOD 2010 Climate and Energy Symposium

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Presentations from DOD 2010 Climate and Energy Symposium  From Integration & Synthesis Panel Introduction, John Benedict [PDF] ...

The new Prius minivan in U.S. next year

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NextBigFuture: In the picture is the Toyota Estima hybrid minivan that has been available only in Japan Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T)...

EPA Announces New Guidelines for Energy Star Homes

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Laura B. p2tech - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing new, more rigorous guidelines for new homes that earn the En...

Why dirty work is shipped out of U.S.

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Federal regulations cost a whopping $1.187 trillion last year in compliance burdens on Americans. "Trillion-dollar deficits and regu...

Kohler Flush with ideas and water saving products

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Water-saving toilets: designs have improved and "there's no trade-off now," said Shane Judd, product manger for water conserva...

Shoppers line up early for appliance rebates

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VIA Laura B. P2Tech Shoppers lined up early this morning to take advantage of a 15 percent appliance rebate program under which the sta...

DOE Issues Federal Fleet Management Guidance

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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program today released its Federal Fleet Management Guidance, meeting a...

Increasing Energy Efficiency: Key to Securing America’s Energy Future

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce (via DocUticker) Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Energy at the U.S. Chamber o...

Using matrix to predict extinction

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Jeremy Hance - Mongabay .. "One of the main differences between habitat islands and true islands is the intervening matrix," say...

More pollution Planes or Volcanos?

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InformationisBeautiful. ... the Nordic Volcanological Institute of the University of Iceland measured the CO2:SO2 ratio as 5:1 ( source) . S...
Apr 18, 2010

Fresh water for the plants even in the driest place on earth

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The interesting discovery of magic box called Groasis Waterboxx that can produce fresh water for the plants even in the driest place on eart...
Apr 17, 2010

The insanity of greenery

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Anthony Watts: First, let me say I’m a fan of solar power when done correctly and without financial carrots hung out for electricity generat...

Idle Livestock on Treadmill to Generate Electricity For Farms

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A small farm could earn back a 50-cow system's estimated $100,000 price in three years. ViA PopSci Instead of milling around aimlessly...

IBM's Water-Cooled Aquasar Supercomputer Uses Waste Heat to Warm Dorms

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VIA PopSci: Supercomputers and massive data centers carry huge energy costs when it comes to keeping their electronic components chilly. No...

Peter Gleick: how to be more water efficient Q&A

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Mr. Gleick was called " one of 15 people Obama should listen to "... I would have to agree.  What if the world runs out of water...

60% of energy lost in the power grid maybe more...

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off-grid.net The current system of generating electricity centrally and distributing it through the grid wastes as much as sixty per cent ...

$3 hand-powered suction device quickly heals wounds

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MIT Grad Student Danielle Zurovcik (below) designed this hand-powered suction device to speed up wound healing. It costs $3 and it works.  ...

Can nuclear arms reduction change us?

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Not as funny as it is true... and it is very funny.  

China energy depletion - net importer of oil & U.S. coal ?

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 EPIC - The energy depletion consequences are game changing. 1994, the International Energy Agency released a statistic that attracted litt...
Apr 16, 2010

Senate committee approves green building bill

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The Senate Committee on Ethics Reform and Government Operations, on a 4-1 vote Thursday, approved the bill. The Senate sponsor is state Sen...
Apr 15, 2010

Laser enrichment technology has been successfully completed

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"This is a project clearly Steven Chu would love" The initial phase of the test loop program for the SILEX laser enrichment tec...

Free Washington State Energy Code Update class

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The WSU Energy Program is offering a full day training on the residential sections of the 2009 Washington State Energy Code. The course wi...

Federal Buildings Go Green with $4 Billion in Recovery Act Funds

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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently reached the milestone of investing $4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

Evidence of Virus That Infects Both Plants and Humans

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From rabies to bird flu to HIV, diseases passing from animals to humans is a well-known phenomenon.  But a virus jumping from plants to huma...
Apr 14, 2010

Energy conservation could save billions, create jobs

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Energy-efficiency measures in the southern U.S. could save consumers $41 billion on their energy bills, open 380,000 new jobs, and save 8.6 ...

Today Boone will address U.S. House on dangerous dependence on OPEC oil

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T. Boone Pickens will be testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means. The topic is " Energy Tax Incentives Driving the...

Recovery? the most Americans ever recorded go hungry

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[ L.A.Times ]...our people set a new record for food stamp consumption in a month, hopefully this is a record-breaking surge that ends som...

HIPPA record and preventative medicine FAIL

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... people would hide things from their doctor if the medical record system shared anonymous data with other organizations. Read full a Com...
Apr 13, 2010

Toxic Beef, Rejected by Mexico, Sold in U.S.

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USA Today - Beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals is being sold to the public because federal agencie...