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Science & Tech News tagged with Alternative Energy

Flapping Wind Turbine Inspired By Bumble Bee Wings
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, technology, world, tech, Alternative energy, wind power )

Katie
- 23 days ago - treehugger.com
Biomimicry is everywhere these days. It seems increasingly clear that design inspired by nature will play a great big role in our energy future. Case in point: Green Wavelength, an up-and-coming California engineering biz.......
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Helix-Shaped Wind Turbines Could Power Nigerian Cell Towers
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, tech, world, Alternative Energy, wind turbines, wind power )

Katie
- 29 days ago - treehugger.com
Vertical axis wind turbines are an intriguing technology that most people still know little about. The turbines we are accustomed to use blades to turn a horizontal axis (which is often housed in the little cupola on the top of the turbine's tall stem).
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Introducing the Most Efficient Solar Power in the World
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, energy, Alternative Energy, Solar System )

Katie
- 47 days ago - discovermagazine.com
It's taken 25 years, but a new solar-thermal plant in New Mexico has finally broken the old efficiency record.Two new solar thermal technologies--which focus sunlight to create heat rather than convert it directly to electricity, as photovoltaics do
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Cisco: Smart Grid May Be "1,000 Times Larger Than the Internet"
Science & Tech  (tags: smart grid, cisco, Alternative Energy )

Hugh
- 155 days ago - greenercomputing.com
There's been plenty of hype about the Smart Grid -- some justified and some not. But the gold award for Smart Grid hype has to go to Cisco, whose spokesperson last month said that the grid could end up being up to 1,000 times the size of the Internet.
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Wind Power Expo 2009
Science & Tech  (tags: world, wind power, expo 2009, alternative energy, concept, design, energy, environment, climate, humans, interesting, news, NewTechnology, performance, research, science, society, tech, technology, global warming, Climate Change, IEA )

SirRobert
- 392 days ago - energy-daily.com
Expo 2009 gives updated estimates by the International Energy Agency, in regard to the major advancements concerning Wind Power, and it's interrelationship with off-setting global warming trends.
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Sand Power a Possibility as Alternative Energy Source
Science & Tech  (tags: alternative energy )

Scuba
- 533 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
A Waikato University scientist believes sand could be the answer to producing emissions-free electricity.
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Tesla's First Electric Vehicle, 2008 Roadster, Now Under Production
Science & Tech  (tags: alternative energy, automobiles, cars, electric cars, EVs, Tesla, transportation, zero-emissions vehicletechnology, NewTechnology, performance, energy, concept, car, Gizmos )

Clayton
- 614 days ago - gas2.org
Tesla Motors began limited production of their all-electric, zero-emissions sportscar, the Tesla Roadster. It's a car that can go from 0-60 in 5.7 seconds without using a drop of gas, and promises to be the first of a wave of new plug-in electric vehicles
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Wind Farms: Sorting the Wheat From the Chaffinches
Science & Tech  (tags: energy, environment, alternative energy, energy industry, wind, wind farms, interesting, technology, climate-change, world )

Gavin
- 652 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Addresses the three arguments against wind: their ineffectiveness per se as a means of generating energy; their apparent ruination of idyllic countryside by their very presence; and the debate as to whether they pose a real danger to wildlife.
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Wind Turbines Offer Cheap Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: wind turbine, technology, alternative energy )

Ben
- 699 days ago - blogmyway.org
A small rooftop wind farm in Hong Kong is demonstrating how alternative power can be very inexpensive. (Dec. 26) Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
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Wind Has Vast Renewable Energy Potential
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, wind turbine, rural home, windmill, electric expense, wind-generated electricity, home energy source, energy sources, alternative energy )

Ann
- 731 days ago - yellowzeppelin.info
The state's wind could produce enough electricity to power hundreds of thousands of homes.
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Students From CU Show How to Make Ice From Sun!
Science & Tech  (tags: Ice made from sun, alternative energy, University Of Colarado, solar energy, Solar Decathlon )

Pooja
- 768 days ago - ecofriend.org
A 1400 square foot house, complete with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths consumes no electricity at all and cools with ice made from sun!
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