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U.S. solar projects boom as PV prices keep falling
The U.S. lags behind in solar PV manufacturing, but falling panel prices mean thriving commercial-scale development.
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Solar-powered ice cream truck unfolds like a Transformer
Shazam! Is it an Autobot, or an object lesson in the possibilities of distributed generation? We're grooving so hard to the soundtrack on this video that we can hardly tell. Unlike conventional ice cream trucks, which sit on the street loudly idling in order to run their refrigeration equipment, this one relies on the power […]
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Can Japan get off nuclear by 2012 without wrecking its economy?
A new plan for a massive shift to renewables could move Japan away from nuclear permanently, even as it creates hundreds of thousands of jobs for the country's ailing economy.
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Obama gives strong jobs speech, defends pollution standards
Obama’s big job speech exceeded expectations. He didn't mention clean energy by name, but he did emphasize that it's a core job-creating industry.
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How Gmail saves energy
There are a lot of benefits to cloud computing. For instance, if you believe the commercials, it lets you replace your family’s heads with better heads! Also, it saves you storage space and means you can access your data with multiple devices. But this might be the best argument so far: Switching from local email […]
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Could ammonia be the zero-carbon fuel we've been waiting for?
Ammonia would make a pretty handy, potentially carbon-free liquid transportation fuel, say engineers, and it could be produced right at gas stations using electricity from the grid, water, and air.
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The conservative game plan on energy subsidies
Some progressives and Democrats think they can work with Republicans to cut subsidies to dirty energy, but they're getting played.
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Bear steals Prius
Here's a cautionary tale for hybrid owners: A Prius-owning family in California lost its car to a joy-riding bear.
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Rick Perry: The EPA 'won't know what hit 'em'
Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry announced his intentions to make the EPA unapologetically pro-pollution.
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Koch brothers compare Obama to Saddam Hussein, declare 2012 will be ‘war’
A complete audio transcript of the Koch brothers' annual super-secret gathering of hard-right bazillionaires just leaked, and it's full of all the usual invective you'd expect to hear out of America's favorite pro-business libertarian climate change deniers.
