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• More From Frieda: Let Me Say : I TOLD YOU SO

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  No, I am not clairvoyant I just have been with this for 40 years. I saw the hubris, the arrogance and the lies since the first nuclear plant was built ! In my last e mail, I explaining the scandal over nuclear waste left from the weapons production. A scandal so bad that one official threatened to “shoot” ...
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• Harvesting and Directing Light for Lighter Solar Panel Cells

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 127
  In October of 2009, a scientific breakthrough was announced that could clear the way to more efficient and more powerful solar collection cells. University of Florida chemists announced that they had figured out a method for drawing forth promising molecular structures that can be used in capturing. These synthetic ...
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• Global Warming BBC

  
  The Conservative Reform Network Blog — Authority: 141
  Even the Leftist BBC admits there is a debate about anthropogenic global warming and global warming itself. BBC summarizes the Global Warming debate to date . At the beginning of the Global Warming debate, I don’t recall anyone predicting twenty years of cooling or discussing other factors, like solar activity ...
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• How The Sun & Wind Can Save You A Lot Of Money

  
  AQUACHANNEL — Authority: 141
  We all can benefit from the power of solar energy and wind power also. Just like that of PV solar panels, homemade windmills can be made from basic hardware store products. If you are not very sure what solar panels and windmills can do, just imagine them as being oversized batteries which can produce energy or power ...
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• Frieda Berryhill Writes: Limerick Generating Station: NRC Evaluated Emergency Preparedness Exercise - Inspection Report

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 442
  Limerick Emergency Preparedness Exercise Report November 2009 “No findings of significance were identified “……….. I wonder what this report would say concerning Salem 1 and 2 and Hope Creek. According to 2000 census data, 24,976 Delawareans live in the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone (EPC) I ...
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• Singapore’s vertical garden powers itself with Solar Energy

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 440
  Singapore itself is a very beautiful place, and to add to the beauty Grant Associates has made this 101-hectare lush green expanse right next to the Marina Bay resort. The incredible botanical preserve will boast of super tall trees, which make it a vertical garden. The most outstanding feature is that the trees are ...
  4 hours ago

• Around the world on a solar plane - without fuel and with zero emissions: Solar Impulse prototype runway debut

  
  WcP Blog - World Culture Pictorial — Authority: 122
  (quote) The prototype of a solar-powered plane, the size of an Airbus and the weight of a mid-sized car, destined for a record round-the-world journey has made its 1st trip across a runway. The plane covered at least 2km at speeds of up to 5 knots on the landing strip in Switzerland. This test run saw the Solar ...
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• Has Missing Dark Matter of the Universe Finally Been Detected?

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 624
  A scientific system buried deep below the Earth, constructed of ultrapure materials held hovering over absolute zero, has finally stirred.  This isnt an attack by misbegotten monsters but an encouraging clue to the main mystery of the universe: dark matter. The kind of matter with which we are familiar -- atoms ...
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• Largest Solar PV Power Plant in California Opens

  
  Alternative Energy HQ — Authority: 127
  Photovoltaic Solar Project Generates Renewable, Clean Electricity First Solar, Inc. and NRG Energy, Inc. today announced the start of commercial operation for the largest photovoltaic (PV) solar project in California. First Solar developed and built the 21-megawatt (MW) power plant in Blythe, Calif., which was ...
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• MATTRACKS Winter Scooters

  
  ScooteringUSA — Authority: 435
  They call it a Snow Scooter without wheels but when you hit the ice, wheels may not really be necessary. In lieu of the traditional wheels, the MATTRACK makes use of a tank tread instead which should make going through the snow more practical. It comes with a handle mounted on the tread that serves as its steering ...
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• Solar Giant — First Solar — Exceeding Wall Street Expectations, & More

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  One of the solar industry’s corporate giants, First Solar , announced recently that it expects sales for fiscal year 2010 to reach between $2.7 billion and $2.9 billion . This is about $300 to $500 million more than Wall Street expectations. Despite the current economic situation, and a major recent let-down ...
  13 hours ago

• Molecular Breeding Makes Crops Hardier and More Nutritious

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  For the past two decades, promises of crop improvement have been the domain of genetically modified plants : mostly, crops supplemented with bacterial genes to resist pests or weedkillers like Roundup. More than 85 percent of U.S. corn, soy or cotton grown contains such genes. But there is more than one way to ...
  14 hours ago

• The Case for Sunny Money

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 694
  The din of argument about climate change may quiet now that the Copenhagen circus is over , but it is sure to ramp up again next year as the U.S. Congress considers new energy legislation. Remarkably, the idea that we need do nothing has returned as a respectable political position —or at least one not relegated ...
  15 hours ago

• “Corn fed” still has cachet with steak lovers

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Beef producers have had a tough time lately as the flaccid economy cut into demand for the choice cuts. But the term “Corn fed, Midwestern beef” still is the call that beckons steak lovers, even among Texans who normally confine bragging to their in-state products. What the beef crowd has long considered the ...
  16 hours ago

• The Winds of the Carolinas May Give Us Electricity

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 127
  A research project is underway at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a project that is quite likely going to lead to the first wind turbines ever to be placed in American waters. In the Fall of 2009, the university signed an agreement with Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) to set up a three or [...]
  19 hours ago

• Fuel Cell Research and Development Activity in Ohio

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 133
  The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has recommended $6.38 million in funding for fuel cell projects through the Ohio Third Frontier Fuel Cell Program. This programme supports research and development that addresses the technical and cost barriers to fuel cell components and systems commercialisation in Ohio. The awards ...
  20 hours ago

• Solar startup files for IPO

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 115
  photo: Solyndra In The New York Times on Friday, I write that Solyndra, a Silicon Valley photovoltaic module maker, has become the first solar startup in years to brave the public markets: Solyndra, a well-financed solar module maker, filed a registration statement for an initial public offering on Friday to raise ...
  20 hours ago

• Clarus: CleanTech industry news

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 423
  Having led the $50 million IPO syndicate for Wellington Financial Fund III portfolio co. Biox (see prior post “ Biox looks set to raise $50 million in IPO ” Nov 28-09), investment bank Clarus Securities is playing close attention to developments in the biodiesel world: Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension ...
  21 hours ago

• Cool Mass. wind turbine design gets nod from Energy Secretary

  
  Granite Geek — Authority: 429
  There’s something about windmills that drives inventors crazy: Straight-ish blades spinning in a circle around a horizontal axis seems so old-fashioned; surely we can devise something cooler? Like a helix around a vertical axis ! Or a funky-looking energy ball ! Or magnets around the rim! One funky-looking design ...
  22 hours ago

• Wilderness Makes West Virginia Wonderful

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 626
  Scene from West Virginias Monongahela National Forest Wilderness. Image credit: Wilderness Society West Virginia is more than deserving of its state slogan: "Wild and Wonderful." It boasts Ancient mountains, untamed rivers, caves, culture, and much more.Whats bizarre to me, however, is that the West Virginia ...
  23 hours ago

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