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Understand how alternative energy and renewable resources are changing our world, from geothermal to nuclear.

  • An airplane flies by solar panels

    U.S. eyes airports as major clean energy sites

    Wed, May 02, 2012 2:43 PM by EarthTechling

    Grasslands around airports can be used as solar panel fields or sources of grass-based biofuels, according to a new USDA report.

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  • A Greenpeace protester dressed in black uses a spray bottle to clean a window affixed with a Greenpeace poster advocating green energy for data centers

    The competitive advantage of green grids

    Tue, May 01, 2012 3:21 PM by Chris Turner

    As Greenpeace attacks Apple for the coal clouds firing its data centers, green grids from Iceland to Quebec are attracting some surprising new customers. All kilowatt-hours are no longer created equal.

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  • Workers assembling solar panels by hand at a factory in Wuxi, China

    UN calls for doubling renewable energy by 2030

    Sun, Apr 22, 2012 11:12 PM by Agence France-Presse

    The United States is viewed as the 'logical country' to make the greatest strides in renewable energy due to its 'venture capital and investment community.'

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  • natural gas rig

    U.S. to curb fracking emissions ... eventually

    Fri, Apr 20, 2012 1:48 PM by Russell McLendon

    The EPA decided this week to limit cancer-causing emissions from hydraulic fracturing, aka 'fracking,' but its new rules won't take effect until 2015.

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  • A clam is hooked up to electrodes to form part of a living battery

    Living batteries? How clams can power up an electric motor

    Wed, Apr 18, 2012 10:38 AM by Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily

    The blood sugar of the clams served as the energy source for the biofuel cells.

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  • Fukushima nuclear plant

    Japan may be 'momentarily' without nuclear power

    Sun, Apr 15, 2012 6:47 AM by Agence France-Presse

    The country may go without nuclear power next month when the only one reactor still in operation shuts down for maintenance work.

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  • Volunteers paint a roof white to reduce energy use

    Global warming scientists foresee sun-reflecting cities

    Thu, Apr 12, 2012 7:30 PM by Agence France-Presse

    Scientists sketched a vision of converting cities into giant sunlight reflectors to help fight global warming but met with skepticism.

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  • A German village seen from overhead, with nearly every roof topped in solar panels

    What have we learned about cheap energy?

    Thu, Apr 12, 2012 10:15 AM by Chris Turner

    There's not a free and fair market for energy anywhere on earth. The reason Germany's solar industry is failing and America's natural gas 'fracking' business is thriving is because the markets are rigged that way.

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    U.S. grabs lead over China in clean energy race

    Wed, Apr 11, 2012 7:19 PM by Kerry Sheridan, AFP

    The U.S. regained its lead in the clean energy race, investing $48 billion last year to surpass China, which held the top-spending spot since 2009.

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    Vote for your favorite Climate Leader College

    Wed, Apr 11, 2012 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    Climate Leadership Awards recognize leadership in climate change innovation by colleges and universities across the country.

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  • DOE launches Apps for Energy competition

    Mon, Apr 09, 2012 2:57 PM by Melissa Hincha-Ownby

    App developers can enter to win up to $30,000.

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  • Space-based energy factory, SPS-ALPHA

    Proposed satellite would beam solar power to Earth

    Mon, Apr 09, 2012 5:59 AM by Leonard David, SPACE.com

    The satellite would be made up of tens of thousands of small biometric elements that would deliver megawatts of power to Earth and space missions.

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  • Fire vehicles are parked within the Penly nuclear power plant, after a nuclear reactor shut down automatically following a fire alert.

    Radioactive fluid leaks at French nuclear reactor

    Thu, Apr 05, 2012 7:20 PM by Agence France-Presse

    The cooling fluid leaked at a French nuclear reactor Thursday following 2 small fires, but the spillage was safely collected in special tanks.

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  • Arabic styled apartment buildings with solar roofs against the blue sky in Masdar, a model city outside Abu Dhabi

    The symbolic power of bladeless wind turbines

    Thu, Apr 05, 2012 5:35 PM by Chris Turner

    Critics of renewable energy are obsessed with the costs and practicalities of cleantech right this instant. Visitors to Silicon Valley in the 1970s didn't see the iPhone coming, either. There are countless innovative new ideas blowing in the wind.

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  • King’s Cathedral church

    Solar cross delivers power and a message

    Wed, Apr 04, 2012 4:10 PM by EarthTechling

    1,050 photovoltaic panels cover the roof of the church in Maui.

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