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Jul
29

College kids around world 'jam' for sustainability

A unique international crowdsourcing event recently held by IBM — the Smarter Planet University Jam — revealed that a vast majority of
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Jul
29

Fuel your car with ... prawn power!

Ahh, we’ve written about so many “next-generation” transport fuel sources — corn, soybeans, used cooking oil, switchgrass, algae, jatropha — we
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Jul
29

Green oxymorons: 'Eco' things that make no sense

It’s drummed into our heads from almost all corners now: green is good. While we’ll agree that sustainability
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Jul
29

Clean tech start-up’s WE NEED YOU!

After the success of Greenbang’s UK Clean Tech Start-up Company Index last year, we are again looking for new
Jul
29

Wind farm operators get option for area extensions

The Crown Estate has today announced plans to offer Round One and Two offshore wind farm operators the opportunity to
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Jul
28

With green "in," home automation's time is here

Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a series of six special features the IEEE is preparing for
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Jul
28

Less oil demand could throttle "tar sands" project

Oil companies pursuing unconventional sources of fossil fuel could be in for a rude awakening as a combination of factors
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Jul
28

£40 million for low-carbon plane engine research

Rolls-Royce is joining other manufacturers and academics in a £40 million programme aimed at developing low-carbon aircraft engine technology for
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Jul
28

Laser flash creates exotic matter: See-through aluminium

Oxford scientists using the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser have created an exotic new state of matter: transparent
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Jul
28

Next five years could be global scorchers

If there’s nothing like an unusually snowy winter or a summertime cold spell to bring out the climate change
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