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City of St. Cloud Will Install Energy-Saving LED Lights That Also Blink...
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Video: Panasonic Ships A Snowman 8,000 Kilometers to the Desert, In a...
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The State of Science and Tech: What We Futurephiles Should Expect From...
Obama Delivering the 2010 SOTUExpect to hear about clean energy, sci/tech education, and more Since you must be currently plugged into the information tubes to be reading this, it's safe to assume...
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Six Ways Bio-Inspired Design is Reshaping the Future
Nature's Power Plantvia WikimediaFrom harvesting energy to building networks, nature has been solving problems for billions of years longer than humans have How exactly does one turn sunlight and water...
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Video: Elektra One All-Electric Plane Makes Successful Maiden Flight
ELEKTRA ONEvia PS-AeroMeanwhile, jet contrails found to be a worse climate-change culprit than carbon German company PC-Aero is trying to win NASA's CAFE Green Flight Challenge, and Saturday they took...
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London Rolls Out the First Fuel-Cell Powered Black Cab
Cheerio! It's London's First Fuel-Cell Powered Black Cabvia engadgetLondon's iconic black cabs are getting a green upgrade in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, and the first street legal iteration just...
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Smart Housekeeping Tools To Save Energy And Cash
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Tapping Light's Magnetic Properties, Innovative Tech Harvests Solar Energy...
Semiconductor-Based Solar CellsAndrej Šalov via WikimediaOne of the major barriers between solar energy and solar-derived electricity is solar cells themselves--commercial solar cells aren't very...
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Burning Waste From Whisky Production, a Scottish Energy Project Will Power...
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Jeff Bezos Invests $19.5 Million in General Fusion's Nuclear Technology
Home-Brewed Fusion General Fusion's proof-of-concept device in the company's austere headquarters, in Burnaby, British Columbia John B. CarnettThis is the fusion company that PopSci said might save the...
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Preparing for Permanent Climate Change, Chicago Invests in Warm-Weather-Ready...
Chicago City Hall's Green RoofTonyTheTiger via WikimediaChicago, no stranger to excruciatingly harsh winters, is a city that knows how to roll with the climatological punches. So perhaps it should come...
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Panasonic Plans to Build a 'Sustainable Smart Town' in Japan by 2014
Fujisawa Sustainable Smart TownPanasonic via CEProUnprecedented private-sector development Japan may still be recovering from earthquake-related woes, but that's not stopping Panasonic and eight...
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Breaking Blades: The Engineering Lab Where Wind-Power Propellers Get Built To...
Support Group To keep the wind blades secure, engineers affix them to a 7.5-million-pound rebar-and-concrete wall. Peter Andrey SmithTo demonstrate what the Advanced Structures and Composites Center's...
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Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
Roomba Sea Drones A new design concept that's a little familiar. Hsu SeanClearing the muck from an oil spill is tough enough without having to worry about collateral damage, but designer Hsu Sean is...
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2012 Invention Awards: A Higher-Efficiency, Lower-Emission Engine System
An engine mod uses waste heat to cut gas consumption For the better part of Frank Will's life, he has been consumed with improving engine performance. He started racing motorcycles as a teenager in...
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It will probably be years until the electrical grid saves us money and power by telling our appliances to switch on during cheaper low-demand hours. But you don't need to wait—these intelligent...
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One of the major barriers between solar energy and solar-derived electricity is solar cells themselves--commercial solar cells aren’t very efficient at converting sunlight to…
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Regretting having that "one more" scotch last night? This might make you feel a little better: your tipple of choice may soon be [providing sustainable energy…
View ArticleJeff Bezos Invests $19.5 Million in General Fusion's Nuclear Technology
Bring up the prospect of fusion power, and often eyes glaze over. It's not that it's not a thrilling prospect--cheap and inexhaustible energy would solve a lot of problems here on planet Earth--but...
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Chicago, no stranger to excruciatingly harsh winters, is a city that knows how to roll with the climatological punches. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the…
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