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Injured bald eagle gets new 3-D printed beak
A team of scientists, engineers, and a dentist designed a nylon polymer beak that would perfectly replace the eagle's lost upper mandible.
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U.S. sees a spike in solar installation over last three months
The 742 megawatts of solar power installed during the summer is the second-largest amount installed in one quarter.
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Small-scale, distributed renewables: Tiny, but growing fast around the world
Small-scale, locally owned power (mainly solar) is spreading quickly and has enormous potential.
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Shocker: The oil that Isaac washed up on the Gulf Coast is from the BP spill
Literally no one saw this coming. BP, for example, was staggered.
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Utilities beat back community solar bill in California
A bill that would have let anyone in California buy power from small-scale, local renewable projects was killed by big investor-owned utilities.
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Hurricane Isaac leaves tar balls, oiled animals on Louisiana beaches
BP says it's not entirely clear who's to blame. (Really.)
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Old Testament theme park uses donkeys as wifi hotspots, just like in the Bible
If you find yourself at the Israeli biblical theme park Kfar Kedem and you see a flashing light, don’t be alarmed — you are not having a hallucination brought on by Talmudic scholarship and hummus. You are seeing a wireless router affixed to a donkey.
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BP thinks the Gulf is copacetic. The government disagrees. Tony Hayward doesn’t care.
BP is claiming in a civil suit that it's pretty much done cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. The federal government's response: Like hell.
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New project in Oregon could make wave power a reality
High-tech buoys from Ocean Power Technologies may be the first system that can provide consistent wave energy to the grid.
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Utah OKs nation’s first tar-sands mine
Look, America, you're getting tar-sands oil whether you like it or not.
