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Fix those Traffic Lights to Reduce Congestion (And Emissions)
Posted by Jeff from Feeds.treehugger
Image courtesy of grendelkhan via flickr You know the feeling: You're sitting in front of a traffic light for what seems like an eternity -- yet there's no cross traffic. And, as luck would have it, the light immediately reverts back to red after only allowing barely a handful of cars in front of you to pass. Surely, you wonder, there must be a ...
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After Avalanche, Juneau Is Quick to Embrace Green
Posted by Jon from New York Times
When an avalanche cut off a power transmission line and electric rates increased 400%, Juneau cut it's electricity usage by nearly half in three weeks. Wow.
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Arizona's Solar Aspirations in Peril
Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner
Faye Bowers writes for The Christian Science Monitor: "The sun shines 325 days a year in Arizona, on average, and some here see that as the state's biggest energy asset. But fledgling efforts to turn Arizona into the solar capital of the world depend on making the initial investment in new energy plants affordable - something that could become much more difficult, perhaps even impossible, if a federal tax credit for solar projects expires at the end of the year as scheduled."
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New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Can't they just make me into a green battery? ... Getting the public to accept a process that strikes some as ghastly may be the biggest challenge. Psychopaths and dictators have used acid or lye to torture or erase their victims, and legislation to make alkaline hydrolysis available to the public in New York state was branded "Hannibal Lecter's bill" in a play on the sponsor's name - Sen. Kemp Hannon - and the movie character's sadism.
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Abu Dhabi Aims to Build First Carbon-Neutral City : NPR
Posted by Mikep2 from NPR
Morning Edition, May 6, 2008 · In Abu Dhabi, there's an area of nothing but wind-swept desert. But 10 years from now, if all goes according to plan, a city of 6 square kilometers housing 50,000 people will rise in the United Arab Emirates - and it will be carbon neutral.
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McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and 7 Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion
Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
Well, sort of. The HuffPo folks love to write sensational headlines... "We would have to quadruple the number of reactors to 400, which would take decades even if we could somehow return to -- and sustain -- the fastest decadal rate of U.S. nuclear plant construction. But that wouldn't mean just building 300 new nuclear plants, for several reasons. First, by 2050, almost all of the existing plants would need to be replaced, so that is another hundred to build if we want to hit the 80% goal."
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Gasoline May Soon Cost $10 per gallon
Posted by Jeff from
The forecasts calling for a jump to between $7 and $10 a gallon are based on the view that the price of crude is on its way to $200 in two to three years. It's $4.62 in San Mateo at one station already.
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Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promises Cheaper Gas, Less Emissions
Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!
The New York Times today reports on the $9,995 Microfueler, a home-based appliance for brewing ethanol for your car. The MicroFueler will use sugar as its main fuel source, or feedstock, along with a specially packaged time-release yeast the company has developed. Depending on the cost of sugar, plus water and electricity, the company says it could cost as little as a dollar a gallon to make ethanol. In general, he says, burning a gallon of ethanol made by his system will produce one-eighth the carbon of the same amount of gasoline.
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Native Americans Launch Wind Energy Project
Posted by Shemuses from
With the demand for wind-energy mounting, native tribes are pushing to increase wind projects on tribal lands, reports Indian Country Today. A Seattle company, Native Green Energy is installing turbines in Maine to power 50 homes and enable the tribe to sell excess energy to private utilities. There is great potential for wind energy in the native-owned lands in the Northern Great Plains-enough, some experts say, to meet the nation's electrical needs, but existing laws do not allow tax credits to non-Native companies that team with tribes. Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to allow the tax credit.
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Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show Green Cars
Posted by rhoehn from Wired
Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show Green Cars
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Is the World Bank coal-fused?
Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner
By Joseph RommYou knew it had to happen: the World Bank now has the same climate sensibility as ... the Kansas House. Scientist Jim Hansen, on the other hand, has requested a meeting with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, arguing for a moratorium on coal plants until carbon capture and storage technology is available. Even Wall Street looks on coal ...
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Bike-sharing services roll into the U.S.
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Clear Channel Outdoor, an outdoor advertising company, will launch the country's first bike-share service in Washington, D.C., in mid-May in partnership with the district's Department of Transportation. SmartBike DC will initially offer annual subscribers access to 100 bikes at 10 stations in the city's central business district. Other cities, including San Francisco and Chicago, are eager to follow suit.
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