wind power
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Turbine that looks like a piece of art will fit right in at your yacht club
There are some who believe that those behemoth white wind turbines are beautiful and some (Donald Trump) who believe that they’re a blight on the landscape. Well, here is a wind turbine that will win over both groups. It’s like the Frosted Mini-Wheats of wind energy: The penny pincher in you loves the efficiency, but […]
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Critical List: We need a whole extra earth; Hawaii’s beaches are disappearing
We’d need one and a half Earths to fulfill all the demands we put on the planet in 2008 — and it’s getting worse. The Department of the Interior moved forward with the Atlantic wind transmission line, a Google-funded underwater power line that would bring offshore wind energy to 2 million homes. Hawaii’s beaches are […]
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The surprising reason why Newark Mayor Cory Booker supports wind power
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is handsome, approachable, and once saved a lady from a fire — he’s basically the Ryan Gosling of politics. And one of the reasons people like him, even people like me who know next to nothing about his job performance, is that he’s always willing to make jokes about himself, and […]
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Turbine makes fresh water out of thin air in the desert
If you've ever watched water drip out of a window a/c unit, you've seen the operating principle of Eole Water's new wind turbine in action.
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Mesmerizing wind map is the coolest-looking weather map ever
Data visualization wizards Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have devised a real-time map of wind speeds in the U.S., and it beats the pants off spiky cold fronts, happy suns, and whatever else they’re putting on weather maps these days. It’s simple, elegant, and crazy hypnotic — watch it together with the lava lamp ocean currents, and […]
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Critical List: BP spill liability trial delayed; Meryl Streep’s eco-friendly Oscar dress
BP’s trial for Deepwater Horizon liability has been pushed back one week as the company considers a $14 billion settlement. Scientist Peter Gleick is taking a leave of absence from the Pacific Institute after the organization’s board of directors expressed concern about the methods he used to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute. Meryl […]
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LEGO buys $500 million worth of wind turbines
The world's third-largest toy manufacturer is going to be putting "made with wind power" labels on all those boxes of LEGOs, and not just because they bought their power from utilities with wind turbines.
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Rich white dudes: Environmentalists are out of touch with the working class
MSNBC’s Morning Joe is a font of conventional wisdom, so I don’t feel bad restating this old maxim: Everyone on Morning Joe is a jerk. Here’s the evidence, starting at 3:10 or so: [vodpod id=Video.16133528&w=425&h=250&fv=launch%3D46511433%26amp%3Bwidth%3D420%26amp%3Bheight%2D245] The ever-wise Joe says that Obama’s “environmental base” is holding him back because the only type of energy environmentalists like […]
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Critical List: Groundhog says six more winter weeks; zoos need more elephants
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, which means six more weeks of winter. But that dude has since his shadow more than 100 times; he’s only not seen it 16 times. Honestly, getting your weather forecast from a giant rodent is like getting your climate science from a weather forecaster. Locusts thrive on overgrazed lands. Accredited […]