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Jan
05

How to cut several megacities' worth of carbon? The right tech helps

How much impact can smart-grid technology really have on our energy consumption and carbon emissions? How about enough to eliminate
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Jan
04

'Autos on steroids' keep US gas thirst super-sized

Rising levels of obesity and the McMansion trend of the real-estate bubble era already provide evidence enough that the US
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Jan
04

Clean-energy spending skyrockets in Africa

African nations still rank at the bottom in terms of human well being and development, but 2011 brought at least
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Jan
03

Smart-meter foes take war on city to federal court

The Illinois city of Naperville has become the latest noisy battleground in the war between smart-grid proponents and opponents. Just
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Jan
03

Saudi Arabia's domestic thirst for oil threatens world markets

A looming but hidden energy crisis in Saudi Arabia could wreak havoc both at home and internationally, throwing world oil
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Jan
03

Solar energy goes through the roof in Germany

Nuke-abandoning Germany is rapidly expanding its already large base of renewable energy, putting it on track to get 10 percent
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Jan
02

Ohio's 'clean' gas-energy future on shaky ground ... literally

The fast-expanding shale gas industry in the US has hit a literal bump with the closure of several fluid injection
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Jan
02

Water + solar = savings for cash-strapped California utilities

Cash-strapped water utilities in California are turning to solar energy to keep operating in the face of ever-tighter public budgets.
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Jan
02

To green or not to green? UK's energy dilemma

If you think the UK is in a difficult position as far as its relationship goes to the rest of
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Dec
29

European 'supergrid' could have it all: wind, solar and geothermal

Electricity utility Landsvirkjun plans to build the world’s longest submarine power cable to connect with the proposed European offshore
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