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This Machine Might* Save the World | Popular Science
Two desktop-printer engineers quit their jobs to search for the ultimate source of endless energy: nuclear fusion. Could this highly improbable enterprise actually succeed?
tags: fusion, nuclear fusion
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Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth – Telegraph
Conservationists have found a host of new species after discovering uncharted new territory on the internet map Google Earth.
tags: mozambique, mount mabu, google earth, new species, kew
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An article in the UK’s Sunday Times recently talked about the plans for a nationwide rollout of Smart Meters in Britain.
From the article:
Telecoms giants Vodafone, O2 and BT and system integrators Logica, Accenture, IBM and Capgemini are understood to have started talks to form bidding consortiums…
The government has put smart meters at the heart of [...]
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Oil Is Not the Climate Change Culprit — It’s All About Coal | Wired Science from Wired.com
New climate change scenarios quantify the idea that oil is only a small component of the total global warming problem — the real problem is coal.
If the world replaced all of its oil usage with carbon-neutral energy sources, ecologist [...]
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Water efficiency organisation launched – Low Carbon Economy
A global organisation promoting resource efficiency of water has been launched with partners from civil society, academia, multilateral organisations and business.
The Water Footprint Network, which aims to encourage the transition to equitable and sustainable water use around the world, was launched earlier this week.
tags: water, water footprint
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This is a graph of traffic to the website of the Australian Open tennis championship. As you can see, the traffic spikes in January every year and then all but disappears for the other 11 months of the year. It is also important to note that the height of the traffic spike is increasing year [...]
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Researchers eye clean energy possibilities along Portuguese coast
MIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to power an electricity-generating turbine.
tags: mit, wave energy, portugal
IBM Press room – 2008-12-08 IBM and Researchers From Harvard Launch [...]
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Clean Break » Blog Archive » The grid and renewables: supersize me
Climate talks in Poznan, Poland, this week included a meeting to discuss the concept of a super-grid that would connect renewable-rich regions to energy-hungry regions via high-voltage, direct-current (HVDC) cables. It’s an attractive idea. If Iceland has all the geothermal, North Africa has the [...]
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Australia sets new climate target
Australia has said it will start a carbon trading scheme by the middle of 2010, despite appeals from the business community for a delay.
The plan will cover 75% of the country’s emissions.
It has also announced that it will cut greenhouse gas emissions by between [...]
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