alternative energy
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Is it a good idea to buy used solar panels?
Solar panels are creating a waste nightmare. This salvage company could have a solution.
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Most paths to a clean-energy future start the same way
Fights over renewable standards and nuclear power can be vicious. Here's a list of things that climate hawks agree on.
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A leaked list of Trump’s infrastructure priorities looks pretty surprising.
Trump's infrastructure wish list appears positively un-Trumpian, but ...
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What makes owls deadly could make wind turbines silent
This bird-inspired tech tweak could make wind turbines quieter -- and that might make them more effective, too.
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This wind turbine has no blades — and that’s why it’s better
The Vortex bladeless turbine uses the wind to vibrate instead of spin. That makes it cheaper, quieter, and more reliable than a bladed turbine.
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8 bright ideas for a cleaner future
Check out the awesome finalists from OpenIDEO's Renewable Energy Challenge.
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These wind turbines were modeled after stegosauri
Generally, gigantic engineering companies don’t truck with whimsy. But Siemens, which makes many of the wind turbines popping up on horizons around the world, has created a suite of new products that makes turbines more powerful and is inspired by dinosaurs. It’s like something a 5-year-old thought up, but better.
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Four innovations that will make the future less wasteful
The New York Times Magazine has a lovely list of “innovations that will change your tomorrow.” Many of these innovations will give people fabulous new ways to consume more: New coffee! More screens! Underwear that monitors how lazy you are! But a few will also change our tomorrows to help people use less. Naturally, those […]
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Power source of the future: Snails
Sometimes it seems like researchers design experiments specifically to win an Ig Nobel prize. How else do you explain a paper titled "Implanted Biofuel Cell Operating in a Living Snail"?