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Dec
12

New ventures to put China's wind energy on steroids

After several years of courtship, Siemens and Shanghai Electric are tying the knot and looking to raise a giant offspring
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Dec
12

Bundle up this winter: Cheap energy is gone for good

Late December brings with it more than Christmas these days: as winter looms in the northern hemisphere, it also raises
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Dec
12

How to cure an oil addiction? Electric cars are key

Boost domestic hydrocarbon production? Yes. Improve the fuel economy of cars on the road today? Yes again. But an even
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Dec
08

Could algae step in when (affordable) oil runs out?

Back in the heyday of the muscle car, even the fuels had a macho air (“Put a tiger in your
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Dec
08

$52 billion in climate disasters could buy a lot of Leafs

The cost of weather- and climate-related disasters in the US in 2011 could have paid for nearly one-and-a-half million Nissan
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Dec
08

Cities awash in data are missing out on efficiency 'gold'

Cities are increasingly awash in “big data,” and the intelligence hidden in that information represents a vast, untapped resource that
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Dec
07

Canada's green-energy halo can't hide tar-sands horns

Poor Canada. It does so well at so many clean, green renewable things. It’s taken an innovative stance on
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Dec
07

Warren Buffett bets $2 billion on a solar-powered future

Think Warren Buffett knows a thing or two about smart investing? Then it’s worth noting that the “Oracle of
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Dec
06

The scariest energy graph you'll see today

We have all the technology we need today to live more efficiently and sustainably … or so we’ve been told
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Dec
05

Will the 'internet of things' be ruled by giants?

Is bigger necessarily more efficient? It all depends on circumstances. For example, an Amazon certainly enjoys an economy of scale
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