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Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisThe United States is in "a defensive crouch" on climate change that threatens its national security and must go on the offense by signing an agreement to combat global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen next month, reporters were told here. "Climate change would act as a ...
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Technology Review: A New Approach to Fusion | #Energy, #[Fusion Plant]General Fusion, a startup in Vancouver, Canada, says it can build a prototype fusion power plant within the next decade and do it for less than a billion dollars. So far, it has raised $13.5 million from public and private investors to help kick-start its ambitious effort. Technology Review: ...
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R-Squared Energy Blog: The Dominant Fuel in 2030I just spent a fruitful week in Canada, learning about some of the biomass resources in Alberta. There are some interesting opportunities there for the right technology, and I expect that I will be making future trips up there. One of the questions I was asked this week by one of my new ...
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A Polymer Solar Cell with Near-Perfect Internal EfficiencyAn international group of scientists has developed a polymer-based solar cell with an ability not yet seen in similar cells: almost every single photon it absorbs is converted into a pair of electric-charge carriers, and every one of those pairs is collected at the cell's electrodes. The ...
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Inhabitat » Chicago Unveils First Solar Plug-in Charging StationDesigned by Chicago-based Adrian Smith Gordon Gill Architecture, the station is located at the Department of Fleet Maintenance, and it will be used to power the city’s electric fleet. The setup is simple, taking the sun’s power, and turning it into electricity that can be easily accessed by ...
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Nanotechnology catalysts offer prospect of commercially viable hydrogen fuel cellsApril 8, 2009 ( Nanowerk Spotlight) — The high cost of today's leading fuel cell technologies, in particular the proton exchange membrane fuel cell, also known as polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (both resulting in the same acronym PEMFC), prevents their widespread use in cars and other ...
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Hydrogen & Fuel Cells 2009 -International conference for the fuel cell and hydrogen Industry.
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Canada funds 16 clean energy technology projects with $53 million( Nanowerk News) The Canadian economy became cleaner today as 16 new projects that develop and demonstrate emerging clean technologies were awarded $53 million. The announcement, confirming the decision of the Board of Directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), was made today ...
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Technology Review: A Cheaper Solar ConcentratorA Cheaper Solar Concentrator A new light-guiding optic combines low cost with high efficiency. Nicolas Morgan holds up a square piece of clear, molded acrylic about a centimeter thick and shines a penlight directly at its flat surface. A green beam enters the acrylic and bends toward the ...
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Better Place in deal for Canadian electric car network - Green WombatSilicon Valley startup Better Place on Thursday unveiled a deal with the government of Ontario - the Michigan of Canada - to build an electric car charging network in the automaking province. The announcement comes on the heels of agreements Better Place — the electric car infrastructure company ...
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