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For the past three decades, there have been no new nuclear power plants built in the United States. The Three Mile Island incident, in 1979, persuaded the public opinion to turn against this form of energy, on account of it being too dangerous. The last order for such a plant that was actually carried out came in 197... |
21 October 2009
03:27 GMT |
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The concept of 'natural systems' refers to two main areas of research, namely producing energy from plants and microorganisms, and creating groundbreaking, sensing and response capabilities. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is at the forefront of these efforts, having announced the awarding of 20 ne... |
30 September 2009
09:12 GMT |
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Out of all the renewable sources of energy that could be tapped to create electricity, solar radiation is now, by far, the most favored. Although some may argue that geothermal energy is truly endless, the fact is that billions of dollars are currently being poured into research related to creating more efficient and... |
18 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have recently proposed a new method of separating carbon dioxide from the emission pertaining to fossil fuel-powered plants, which is both more efficient and cleaner than the existing one. The new screening method invo... |
23 July 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced recently that the city would move towards gradually reducing, and eventually eliminating, the use of coal in its power plants by 2020, in a bid to combat air pollution, global warming, and climate change. This move is only the latest in a row coming from California, th... |
4 July 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years, the necessity of finding sustainable alternative fuels to replace coal, oil, and natural gas for the next decades has become abundantly clear to everyone with a bit of common sense. Researchers from various universities and institutes have taken it upon themselves to come up with soluti... |
25 June 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Biofuel, obtained from the filtered residual oils of numerous types of plants, including algae, maize, sugar cane, and so on, has long been touted as the way to go in the fight against global warming. Its proponents say that it offers an inexpensive way of replacing fossil fuels, and of reducing emissions associated ... |
17 June 2009
04:20 GMT |
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With recent discoveries in the Arctic regions and the North Pole, the potential for a military confrontation between regional powers increased significantly, military analysts warned at the time. Norway, Denmark, the US, Canada and the Russian Federation all claimed areas of influence over rich oil and natural gas fi... |
11 June 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Denmark has in its coastal waters a fairly significant amount of oil, but the shape, location, and formation method of the deposits have been anyone's guess until recently. A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has come up with an explanation of how the oil is placed under the ocean floor, and,... |
11 May 2009
10:58 GMT |
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The UK Government is poised to soon unveil plans that would basically force all citizens to have their homes outfitted with “smart meters,” devices that are able to interfere with the gas and electricity networks and to regulate consumption. The move will reduce the load on power grids during peak periods... |
11 May 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Officials from the large oil company Shell have announced recently that the enterprise believes the best way of getting rid of excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is to capture it and store it underground. According to the numbers the representatives have supplied, this step in the technological process, ap... |
8 May 2009
06:55 GMT |
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The Australian government seems to have succumbed to the increased pressures and threats coming in from the fossil fuel and mining industries. Their representatives have warned that, if the new set of legislations on regulating greenhouse gases passes, they would basically take their business elsewhere, rather than s... |
4 May 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Shifting wind and varying intensities in the way air hits the blades are just two of the main reasons why wind farms lose a great deal of efficiency and produce current at fluctuating levels. But a new development in turbine blade technology could lead to an increased efficiency, and could finally make the wind a res... |
4 May 2009
06:04 GMT |
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A first-of-its-kind governmental survey in the US shows that over the last 40 years bird populations have declined dramatically, on account of a variety of causes, including global warming, increasing urban sprawl, and the appearance of new predator species in closed ecosystems. But regardless of the cause, in each a... |
20 March 2009
20:01 GMT |
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The failure to measure its sulfur content in some gas streams generated by burning natural gas took its toll on the Exxon Mobil oil company, as officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that the firm would have to pay in excess of $6.1 million in civ... |
18 December 2008
09:48 GMT |
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New scientific research shows that the focus of the fight against global warming and climate change must be reducing the levels of coal, and not oil, simply because coal pollutes more. The amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) it emits are far larger than those pumped into the atmosphere by oil refineries worldwide. The re... |
18 December 2008
08:55 GMT |
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Australia recently made public its plans for tackling climate change for the next 10 to 11 years, setting new goals for reducing carbon emissions throughout the nations. The country is still heavily reliable on coal for its electricity, and politicians agree that now is not the time for the delays requested by the in... |
15 December 2008
08:19 GMT |
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The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is forced by a Supreme Court decision to start regulating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of all states, under the new Cleaner Air Act bill. Its proposal for the state of Texas was met with extreme hostility by Governor Rick Perry, who said yesterday that implementing the me... |
26 November 2008
04:30 GMT |
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The Environment Protection Agency is recently acting out again, seeking to modify the existing legislation, which currently prevents companies from building coal-powered plants, oil refineries, and other such heavy-polluting facilities near national parks. The EPA doesn't act like its name, but, rather, tries to... |
19 November 2008
05:13 GMT |
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The concept of nuclear fusion is something that scientists dream about ever since the mid 1940s, after the fission reaction was first obtained, and the first atom bomb was created. Since then, nuclear energy became a part of our daily lives, with plants being built all across the globe, from Korea to India, the US, C... |
14 November 2008
11:03 GMT |
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The US dependency on foreign oil and other fossil fuels has been a controversial subject over the years, as well as in the last presidential campaign. Various scientists and public figures have advocated for both more off-shore drilling and the development of alternate energy sources and biofuels. And while the latte... |
11 November 2008
06:52 GMT |
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According to new researches, life as we know it didn't start 2.7 billion years ago, as first speculated. The process that is fundamental to sustaining life on this planet actually started developing some 2.15 billion years ago, argue researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, following a ... |
24 October 2008
02:26 GMT |
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The deadly gas is formed when sunlight hits various gases in the atmosphere, usually generated by human activities. The ever-increasing levels of pollution in major cities cause for larger quantities of ozone to be generated all the time. While the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere protects our planet against UV li... |
23 October 2008
04:02 GMT |
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A new report on greenhouse gas emissions recently came from China, a highly-unusual event, considering the fact that the country is "sealed" to outside investigations and that the last report it published on the matter dates back more than a decade ago. The survey says that the nation will double its carbon emissions... |
23 October 2008
03:35 GMT |
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For hundreds of years, architects have recognized the important role that white roofs play in reflecting sunlight and keeping the homes below cool. Around the Mediterranean Sea, cities built on hill slopes are all painted white, to offset the high temperatures registered there annually. New reports confirm that build... |
23 October 2008
02:23 GMT |
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Over the past few years, America has consolidated its role as a leader in the design, development and production of renewable energy, through its wind farms, solar plants and geothermal harvesters. The old economy, based on burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gases and coal, is being overrun by a new, cleaner one, whi... |
22 October 2008
11:29 GMT |
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A newly-formed company is trying to revolutionize the way people look at solar energy by reducing the costs involved with mass-producing commercially-sustainable solar cells that could supply the population with electrical energy valued at less than a dollar per watt. 1366 Technologies, based in Lexington, Massachuse... |
20 October 2008
06:19 GMT |
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The Guardian uncovered a new leaked English document that was aimed at pressing other countries into eliminating the aviation sector from the 2020 deadline for renewable energy implementation. The discovery comes as a shock, because Britain's prime-minister, Gordon Brown, is dedicated to ensuring that his countr... |
14 October 2008
10:41 GMT |
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