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Inhabitat » Power Your Music Player With Your Running PantsPower Your Music Player With Your Running Pants by Ariel Schwartz , 11/20/09 Instead of just burning calories, why not use all that energy from exercising to power your MP3 player? The Dancepants Kinetic Music Player , a shortlisted entry in Designboom’s Green Life competition, lets you ...
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India to Spend $900 Million on Solar - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comIndia to Spend $900 Million on Solar Ending months of speculation about exactly what it was planning to do to boost the use of renewable sources of energy, India said this week that it will spend about $900 million on solar energy. The Indian cabinet approved a plan on Thursday that sets ...
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Doubts raised on nuclear industry viabilityThe investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations of other energy sources, and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, but concerns are now being raised. A...
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Nuclear fusion: Coming to a basement near you soon | DVICELawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc. debuted their Focus-Fusion-1 dense plasma focus research reactor in mid-October, after nearly 8 years of research and building. In the blink of an eye, this freezer-sized nuclear fusion demo machine can push more than 100 gigawatts of power through a space ...
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1Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 9 days ago
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2Homeowners Shopping for Solar Panels Find Prices Have Dropped - NYTimes.com"The electric bill on his 7,000-square-foot house and garage has typically run $600 to $700 a month, but he expects a reduction of 40 to 80 percent." As my electric bill for a year is less than half of Mr. Hare's monthly electric bill, I don't think that I will be spending $77,000 on solar ...Geoffrey Ames added 2 months ago
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1Asia Challenges the U.S. for Green Tech Supremacy - Yahoo! NewsWill the Republican "NO" machine ensure that the USA falls behind the rest of the world in the most important technology race of this new century ... in order to protect their special interest masters (the current crop of energy companies)?JDP added 4 months ago
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1Indian students design an air-powered motorcycleOf course, something must produce the electricity for the compressed air. However, current gas stations typically have compressors (whether strong enough for this application, unknown). And how far does it go without a "fill up". Note that in many Indian cities, 18km/h won't be a problem due ...JDP added 6 months ago
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1Ethanol vs. electricity - Cosmic Log - msnbc.comHmmm ... maybe you can get some to "go for it". Be aware, however, that one will need to lay in a whole new infrastructure of tracks (carbon cost of that?). Plus, in any system like that (think conveyor belts) some (significant?) energy is often expended / heat produced due to friction and ...JDP added 6 months ago
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