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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.
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Cheap alloy could produce zero-carbon hydrogen from sunlight
An inexpensive combination of two metals common in the manufacture of computer chips can generate hydrogen from water, using only sunlight as an energy source. If the process can be made commercially viable -- and the simplicity and cost suggests it might -- it would mean yet another way to produce energy directly from sunlight, and a potential source of hydrogen for the kind of fuel cells that power both buildings and vehicles.
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Will the Camry Hybrid help Toyota get its groove back?
After suffering recalls, an earthquake, and a tsunami, the maker of the ever-popular Prius pins its hopes for rebirth on a new green model: the Camry Hybrid.
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U.S. Navy's wave-power buoy plays chicken with Irene, wins
So last week Irene was all like, "HERE I AM! I'm going to rock you like myself!" And off the coast of Jersey (where else?) the U.S. Navy's PowerBuoy was like "bring it!"
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Is planet-cooling balloon full of hot air?
A stadium-sized balloon tied down by a giant garden house could mimic the cooling effect of volcanoes, say British researchers.
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The greenest building on Earth
Workers broke ground this week in Seattle on a six-story building that will generate its own power, collect and reuse rainwater, compost its sewage, and depend on daylight instead of halogen lamps. Its owner, the Bullitt Foundation, which supports work in sustainability, set out to build the greenest building on Earth. We'd say they're earning that title.
