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Method Predicts Size of Fracking Earthquakes
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, energy, environment, earthquakes, fracking, interesting, research, science, world )

Kathy
- 167 days ago - nature.com
Small earthquakes are a recognized risk of hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking', a procedure in which companies unlock energy reserves by pumping millions of litres of water underground to fracture shale rock and release the natural gas trapped inside.
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The Wind With Thousands of Turbine-Powered LEDs
Science & Tech  (tags: energy, the Wind, With, Thousands, of Turbine-, Powered LEDs )

Agnes
- 170 days ago - inhabitat.com
Although we can't normally see the wind, we can feel its presence - however Colorado-based visual artist Patrick Marold has figured out a way to translate the wind's movement into light. Using LEDs, polycarbonate tubes, and mini wind turbines, Marold
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With Record Heating Oil Prices Expected, Homes Dash to Gas
Science & Tech  (tags: energy, With Record, Heating, Oil Prices, Expected, Homes, Dash, to Gas )

Agnes
- 192 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
An early snowstorm stunned the northeastern United States last month, but a far worse chill may strike when the winter fuel bills arrive: Home heating oil prices there are expected to hit record highs in the next three months. The news casts a pall over
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DON'T SWITCH OFF OUR SOLAR REVOLUTION
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, energy, DON'T, SWITCH, OFF, OUR, SOLAR, REVOLUTION )

Agnes
- 202 days ago - express.co.uk
WHEN Joe Spriggs installed solar panels on his roof eight months ago he joined an energy revolution that was sweeping the nation. Since then the retired tele­coms worker calculates he has saved almost £150 on his electricity bill by using the sun to
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IBM Brings Solar Power to Data Centers
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, energy, IBM, brings, solar, power, to, data, centers )

Agnes
- 204 days ago - news.cnet.com
IBM is bringing electric power--in the form of solar panels--to data centers with trouble getting power in the first place. The company tomorrow will detail a pilot project that couples solar power with water-cooled
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Shining Brightly
Science & Tech  (tags: science, technology, solar, Shining, brightly, energy )

Agnes
- 211 days ago - web.mit.edu
With the world's energy needs growing rapidly, can zero-carbon energy options be scaled up enough to make a significant difference? How much of a dent can these alternatives make in the world's total
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A New Approach to Solar Power
Science & Tech  (tags: solar power, solar energy, energy, environment, CO2emissions, pollution, Sustainabililty, technology, science, NewTechnology, interesting, solar race )

Organic
- 212 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
Hybrid solar-thermoelectric systems could provide advantages over conventional solar cells or solar thermal plants.
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MIT's 'Clean Energy Accelerator' Is Making Solar Cheaper, Cleaner, More Efficient (Video)
Science & Tech  (tags: MIT's, 'Clean, Energy, Accelerator', is, Making, Solar, Cheaper, Cleaner, More, Efficient )

Agnes
- 217 days ago - treehugger.com
Much of the world is impatiently waiting for clean energy to get more affordable and more efficient. Renewable power advocates eagerly await the day when technologies like solar and wind reach 'grid parity' in mainstream markets. This is already
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Quantum Levitation of An Object---Video
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, energy, humans, interesting, news, NewTechnology, science, world, tech, technology )

Kenneth
- 217 days ago - sync.sympatico.ca
Watch a supercooled object levitate in the air above a magnet. Position can be changed, can move along a magnetic strip etc. Super neat weird and wonderful. Should be an application for this in the future.
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Gadget and Appliance Energy Use Up 600% in 40 Years
Science & Tech  (tags: Gadget, Appliance, Energy, Use, up, 600%, in, 40, Years )

Agnes
- 218 days ago - treehugger.com
It is not news that our energy consumption has greatly increased in the last 40 years. Nor is it news that our rate of consumption of appliances and gadgets is outpacing the gains we are making in energy efficiency. However,
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Big Buoys Could Make for Renewable Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, energy, environment, interesting, NewTechnology, safety, study, technology )

Kathy
- 222 days ago - earthfix.opb.org
Not much is known about how new wave-energy technologies will affect the environment. There's been little research -- particularly ocean-based research -- to see how marine life, sediments, and coastlines could change if a self-sustaining wave industry-->
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Japan Quake Struck Earth's Atmosphere First | Natural Disasters, Earthquake Effects | Japan Earthquake Japan Tsunami, Tohoku Ear
Science & Tech  (tags: Research, study, scientists, news, interesting, discovery, energy, environment, space, investigation, science, safety, humans, world )

Elizabeth
- 224 days ago - space.com
The devastating earthquake that struck Japan this year may have rattled the highest layer of the atmosphere even before it shook the Earth, a discovery that one day could be used to provide warnings of giant quakes, scientists find.The magnitude 9.0....
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A Solar Plant That Generates Power Day and Night
Science & Tech  (tags: NewTechnology, science, technology, interesting, energy, news )

Zlatan
- 228 days ago - bigskinnycow.com
Gemasolar, the concentrated solar power plant in Spain designed to supply power 24/7 -- yes, even at night.
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3 Weird Alien Planets Found Around Sun-Like Star
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, interesting, energy, space, discovery )

Jae
- 232 days ago - news.yahoo.com
.."Kepler-18c, which takes 7.6 days to orbit the star, is about 5.5 times larger than our planet, and has a mass equivalent to about 17 Earths. Kepler-18d has a 14.9-day orbit and is about seven times the size of Earth, with a mass of about 16 Earths..."
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"Artificial Leaf" Makes Fuel From Sunlight
Science & Tech  (tags: science, MIT, research, NewTechnology, energy, environment )

Organic
- 237 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
Researchers at MIT have produced something they're calling an "artificial leaf": Like living leaves, the device can turn the energy of sunlight directly into a chemical fuel that can be stored and used later as an energy source.
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