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The Real Price Of Oil

August 17, 2008 – 7:45 pm
The value of oil has not been increasing in real terms, currency has just been decreasing in value. Oil is worth the same, the US dollar is just worth less. So maybe we need to shift our focus away from war and drilling; and towards a better economic policy at home.read more | digg story

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Genetically-Engineered Trees Dissolve Themselves Into Fuel

August 17, 2008 – 7:43 pm
A self-fermenting tree can practically turn itself into fuel. read more | digg story

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Vestas to Test World’s Longest Turbine Blades

August 17, 2008 – 7:42 pm
Doesn’t it seem fitting that Vestas Wind Systems, the world ’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines, should be the maker of the world’s largest wind turbine? Well, they’re not - at least not yet. Today, Vestas revealed plans (pdf) for a new research and development center on the Isle of Wight (UK)read more | digg story

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MIT Students Develop Solar Dish Hot Enough to Melt Steel

July 22, 2008 – 11:21 am
The MIT team believes that their lightweight, inexpensive device holds the promise of revolutionizing the power industry and providing solar power to even remote regions.read more | digg story

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Hundreds of Dead Baby Penguins Wash Up on Rio’s Beaches

July 22, 2008 – 11:20 am
It is difficult to imagine what must have been going through the heads of Rio de Janeiro beachgoers in recent months as they have seen hundreds of baby penguins wash up onshore dead. At last count, more than 400 penguins, swept from the shores of Patagonia and Antarctica, have been found dead on Rio de Janeiro's beaches, reports the AP.read more | digg story

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Wetlands Could Unleash “Carbon Bomb”

July 22, 2008 – 11:20 am
The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "Carbon Bomb"read more | digg story

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Al Gore’s call for renewable energy sets us up for a useful

July 22, 2008 – 11:20 am
Al Gore's call for an electrical grid without carbon emissions can't be implemented in a decade, but that doesn't mean working on it is a waste of time.read more | digg story

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Experts: Wind Power is the Future of Energy

July 2, 2008 – 10:38 am
According to reports from the U.S. Department of Energy, 20 percent of the nation's power could be produced by wind by 2030. In 2006, wind power accounted for 3 percent of the nation's power consumption. Renewable energy experts say wind power will play a vital part in meeting future energy demand.read more | digg story

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Solar Energy to Change the Face of India

July 2, 2008 – 10:37 am
The Prime Minister of India released a National Action Plan on Climate Change today that focuses attention on eight priorities, the first among which is “Solar Energy”, whose success-- according to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh--has the potential to change the face of the country, and perhaps the world. read more | digg story

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Journey to the Center of Floating Junk Earth

July 2, 2008 – 10:37 am
Two men are sailing across the Pacific in a homemade vessel, Kon Tiki-style, to “raise awareness about plastic fouling our oceans.” And foul it is: the “garbage soup” swirling in the North Pacific gyre stretches across some five million square miles, an area twice as large as the continental U.S.read more | digg story

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