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Super Bowl blackout makes the case for smart microgrids
More than just a symbol of America’s decaying infrastructure, the Super Bowl blackout showed the vulnerabilities of a centralized power grid.
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International plan for a spill in the Arctic: If anything happens, pick up the phone
Greenpeace rails against an impotent draft document from the Arctic Council -- with good reason.
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This gross story about a human tooth in a sausage might prompt you to go vegetarian
A British couple found a tooth in their sausage. The supermarket where they bought the sausage says it's a bone. Someone is lying here.
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China is getting serious about taming coal
The most worrisome energy trend in the world is rising coal consumption in China. But Chinese officials have announced an ambitious new plan to curb that growth.
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Clean Energy Continues to Break Records, Lead the Way
Here are two headlines from the past week that blew me away (no pun intended): #1- Wind was the top new energy source to come online in 2012. #2- “Renewable-energy capacity in the U.S. almost doubled from 2009 to 2012, helping reduce the nation’s carbon-dioxide emissions last year to the lowest since 1994…” With every […]
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Alaska ignores climate change, so Iditarod dogs will just need to evolve thinner coats
Warning: This post may make you sympathetic to Sarah Palin.
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New York hires seismologist with fracking industry ties to do fracking research
On the plus side, it's a step forward in an otherwise interminable process.
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Use this fantasy high-speed rail map to plan your epic train adventure
New York to Chicago? That looks to be about, oh, five or so hours to us.
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Former Interior Secretary Babbitt calls for one acre of conservation for every acre of oil exploration
Bruce Babbitt says Obama hasn't been protecting enough public land and should stand up to Big Oil and bad Republicans.
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Don’t worry about BP; it’s going to be fine
The oil giant made billions in profits last year, and brought in billions from U.S. gov't contracts, despite that messy thing in the Gulf.
