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Solar panels under power lines could be a major electricity source
Moving toward renewable energy won't require massive solar projects. We could get 20 percent of our power just from solar panels under power lines.
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Radioactive fallout detected in Tokyo
Radiation has a sneaky way of spreading, and in Tokyo, citizens have identified 20 sites contaminated by radioactive cesium from the Fukushima meltdown.
The government wasn't planning on testing in Tokyo, but citizens and a nuclear research center started their own investigation and came up with positive results. -
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Pulling the plug on L.A.
The energy savers took on the Empire State Building. Now they’re out to get Los Angeles.
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Move over, Solyndra: There’s a new fake solar scandal
A misinformed editor claims SunPower is getting a $1.2 billion loan guarantee, equating it to Solyndra. Note to real reporters: SunPower isn’t even getting the loan guarantee -- it is simply building a 250-MW solar PV project for the global energy company NRG.
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Perry's energy plan is a Big Oil wet dream
This is not a surprise or anything, but Rick Perry unveiled what we'll charitably call an "energy plan," and it's printed on oil-soaked paper with oil-based ink.
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Can Rick Perry create 1.2 million energy jobs?
Perry and Romney both promised to create over a million jobs in the energy sector. A closer look at the numbers reveals them to be vastly overstated.
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House members say Keystone XL approval process is tainted
Twenty members of the House of Representatives have signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to reject the Keystone XL pipeline on the grounds that the approval process has been tainted by conflicts of interest. The legislators are worried about reports that the State Department hired a TransCanada-affiliated firm to do the pipeline's environmental evaluation. "These relationships alarmingly suggest that the process may not have been objective," they write, "and this decision is too important to be clouded by even the appearance of impropriety."
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Here's what wind power looked like in 1951
This video of vintage wind turbines is super cool. EnergyNOW reports that the U.K. started supplementing its energy needs with wind power during World War II, then kept using wind for daily needs — like shop window lighting — after the war was over.
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Coal ash regulations would create 28,000 jobs
Republicans have been arguing that environmental regulations kill jobs. But research keeps showing that it's just not true. An independent analysis of the coal ash industry, for instance, reveals that stricter safety regulations would create 28,000 jobs overall.
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Critical List: Australia inches from passing a carbon tax; Rick Perry’s secret economic sauce
Australia's carbon tax bill passed its lower House by a thin majority; it should easily pass the Senate and make it into law.
An oil cleanup contest awarded $1 million to the winning Team Elastec/American Marine, which soaked up 4,670 gallons of oil per minute and got to 89.5 percent of the oil, on average.
China is going to tax the hell out of oil and gas and reinvest the money in nuclear reactors and wind farms.
