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The Toronto Zoo wants to use the manure produced by its animals to generate its electricity, which seems like a perfect scenario for a zoo. The problem is the biogas electricity plant would cost CDN
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A recent ruling by the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board could lead to a tougher time for coal power and an easier time for renewable energy. Last Thursday, the board blocked the EPA from issuing a p
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General Electric hit a milestone today by shipping their 10,000th 1.5 MW turbine to the Ashtabula Wind Energy Center, a wind farm in North Dakota run by FPL Energy. It's a pretty impressive figure, c
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Solfocus, whose technology focuses 500x the normal strength of sunlight onto tiny bits of ultra-efficient (ultra-expensive) solar material has just released a new solar unit that it promises has the
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A new billboard is going up in the middle of Times Square that will be powered with 16 wind turbines and 64 solar panels instead of the usual electricity. When it's windy and sunny, the billboard will
Posted 5 days ago
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California where it will launch in January 2009. The observatory is NASA's first spacecraft designed to study carbon dio
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Serious Materials has won Popular Science's Best of What's New Award in green tech innovation for their eco-friendly drywall called EcoRock.What makes this drywall so special? EcoRock requires 80 p
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Canada's Melancthon EcoPower Centre opened on October 30 after three years of construction. The country's largest wind farm is located near Shelburne, Ontario and has a capacity of 199.5 MW.The devel
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On November 4, Californians voted in favor of a new high speed rail system that will carry passengers the 800 miles from Sacramento to San Diego. Since, according to the High Speed Rail Authority, Ca
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Jeff Stein, of the University of Michigan, believes that electric cars can do more than just reduce our dependence on oil; he believes they can help power our homes as well. His idea, loosely named
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