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Fracking Is Depleting Water Supplies In America's Driest Areas, Report Shows
From Texas to California, drilling for oil and gas is using billions of gallons of water in the country's most drought-prone areas An aerial photograph shows a large field of fracking sites in a north-western Colorado valley. [...] Read More »
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3D Printing Could Save The Environment, Or Possibly Destroy It
Imagine the world of 3D printing fully realized. Read More »
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An Inexpensive Fuel-Cell Generator
People could soon get cleaner energy from a compact fuel-cell generator in their backyards, at costs cheaper than power from the grid. At least, that’s the hope of Redox Power Systems, a startup based in Fulton, Maryland, which plans to offer a substantially cheaper fuel cell next year. Read More »
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California’s Dream To Be The Saudi Arabia Of Solar Dries Up In The Desert
Three years ago California regulators in quick succession approved nine multibillion-dollar solar thermal power plants. They were to be built in the desert and would generate 4,142 megawatts (MW) of carbon-free electricity. The state, it was said, was on its way to becoming the Saudi Arabia of solar. Read More »
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Fracking – Suicide Capitalism Poisons The Earth’s Fresh Water Supplies
[...] Governments across the world are triumphantly declaring that gas fracking is the solution to our rapacious energy needs. Yet as each month goes by new studies emerge in the United States of how this industry is poisoning water supplies and posing a grave threat to public health. Read More »
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Frontiers Launches A New Open-Access Journal In Energy Research
Frontiers, one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers, now part of the Nature Publishing Group family, will launch its Frontiers in Energy Research journal today... Read More »
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Fuel Cells Are Ready For US Military Use, And Might Be In Your Home In A Year
Fuel cells could break into mainstream use very soon, and that means big cuts in energy consumption. The US navy is reportedly ready to deploy generators powered by fuel cells. Meanwhile, a startup in Maryland claims it can offer a cheaper, longer lasting fuel cell than any on the market by next year. Read More »
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High-Powered Lasers Deliver Fusion Energy Breakthrough
A new experiment releases more energy than is pumped into fuel—a major milestone—but a long journey still remains for sustainable energy from fusion Read More »
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How A Massive Nuclear Nonproliferation Effort Led To More Proliferation
More than a decade of negotiations with Russia produced a clear winner, and it was not the United States. Read More »
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How the (Finally Ended) Corn Ethanol Subsidy Made Us Fatter
America's food chain has lately produced a bumper crop of headline-ready catastrophes...But the biggest threat -- the one that food experts agree is most responsible for America's health, economic, and dietary problems -- has just been neutralized: At the end of 2011, Congress allowed the much-vilified corn ethanol subsidy to expire. Read More »
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IBM's Smarter Approach To Contextual Cities
I am writing a book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. It is expected to be complete in October. Following is an excerpt from a chapter called Contextual Cities and the New Urbanists. Read More »
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Industry Needs To Step Up To Protect The Power Grid From Cyber Attack
Energy companies should create a new industry-led body to deflect cyber threats to the electric grid -- from large generators to local distribution utilities, according to a new report co-authored by Ret. Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA and National Security Agency director.
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Libelium Launches New Generation of Waspmote Sensor Nodes
Libelium, a wireless sensor networks platform provider for Smart Cities solutions, today released a new version of Waspmote, its open source wireless sensor platform, designed with input from a community of more than 2,000 developers. Read More »
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Navy Technology Aims To Make Fuel Out Of Seawater
The world's supply of petroleum is finite. The U.S. Navy, which runs on it, is not. Eventually, keeping its fleet afloat for generations to come may depend on another fuel—the kind that doesn't dry up. Read More »
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Open Source: The Stealth Stimulus Package
If I asked you to account for your energy consumption, you might list your laundry equipment on the spreadsheet. We'd see how much you spend using your dryer each month -- quite a large amount. Worried by the cost, you might then opt for a clothesline in your yard. Naturally, your costs have gone down. But has your energy usage? Read More »
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