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Why is China Investing $3.7 Billion in Direct Current Transmission Lines? | The Energy Collective
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 5:19 PM EDT (theenergycollective.com)
I’ve got to hand it to China, they don’t do anything by halves it seems, and announced on Sunday the 13th of May 2012, that construction had started on the worlds largest Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) power line. Oh, and they started on an second 75 …
Nearly $1 Billion in Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Overruns (So Far) — Who's Surprised?
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 11:02 AM EDT ()
“Even though the Vogtle reactor project got its federal license just three months ago, the controversial nuclear reactors are already in trouble” That’s the first line of a recent news release, and right it is. The nuclear reactor project, the first to be appr …
Sorry, FOX News - Wind Farms Are Not Causing Global Warming
Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 1:49 PM EDT ()
The web is buzzing today over a new research study that looks at the effect that large Texas wind farms have on surface temperatures in their immediate surroundings. “New Research Shows Wind Farms Cause Global Warming,” says one FOX headline; “Wind Farms …
Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive
Seeded on Wed May 2, 2012 1:56 AM EDT (Raw Story)
Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego. “They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what h …
Obama: 'I Assumed' (Romney) Meant It When He Said He Wouldn't Get Bin Laden
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:21 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Mitt Romney and his allies have been attacking President Obama for his campaign’s recent video ad, highlighting both his decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and Romney’s statement in 2007 that he would not have taken similar action given the chanc …
Coal Power Plants Becoming Unprofitable In Germany Thanks to Solar
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:02 PM EDT ()
Germany has installed enough photovoltaics such that coal-fired power plants are beginning to become unprofitable. This is driven by a combination factors, e.g., that coal isn’t asked to provide power at the peak of the day, when both the sun and the price of electricity …
Scientists find gene that inhibits pancreas cancer spread
Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:22 AM EDT (Raw Story)
PARIS — Scientists have identified a gene that slows the spread of pancreatic cancer tumours, paving the way for targeted treatment of one of the deadliest forms of the disease, said a paper published Sunday. After discovering the gene dubbed USP9X at work in a study of …
Report: China Doing Most Global Warming Abatement, Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Peak in 2016, but Still Not Enough
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:46 PM EDT ()
The DB Climate Change Advisors has released its latest Global Climate Change Policy Tracker report [PDF], its fourth. The report has quite a bit of interesting info in it. Most important, from a global perspective, is that “the best case global outlook” ba …
Japan Solar, Wind, & Geothermal Feed-in Tariffs Coming Soon
Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:43 AM EDT ()
Japan’s about to become the next major economy to implement a solar feed-in tariff, and from the looks of it, it’s going to be a generous one. (I can see a herd of solar companies migrating over to Japan now.) Wind and geothermal feed-in tariffs are also on their wa …
Air Breathing Batteries: How Does Recharging Your Electric Car Only Monthly Sound?
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:01 PM EDT ()
IBM-led researchers have estimated that a recent battery technology under development could enable electric vehicles to travel 800 km (497 miles) per charge. This technology is a lithium-ion battery that utilizes air (partially) to generate electricity. The lithium-air battery …
Occupy v. Whole Foods? Rebel Farmers and Activists Take Over Land Slated for Development and Start a Farm
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:49 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Invoking the spirit of international peasant farmer movements La Via Campesina and Brazil's Movimento Sem Terra, hundreds of people entered a five-acre plot of land at the Berkeley/Albany border on Sunday April 22, in one of this spring's first high-profile actions of the Occup …
How Much Should BP Pay?
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:38 PM EDT ()
Two years ago, an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform killed 11 workers and marked the beginning of a prolonged environmental disaster now acknowledged as the worst in American history. Before the Macondo well was finally capped, more than two hundred mi …
GM Tests a Self-Driving Cadillac - Technology Review
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:48 AM EDT (Technology Review)
Google isn’t the only company with a self-driving car. BMW, Volvo, and Volkswagen have test versions that can drive themselves in some situations. Many automakers offer features that are taking over more and more aspects of driving. And today GM announced it is road …
Special Paint Eats Pollution In One Of The World's Most Smog Laden Cities
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:52 AM EDT ()
Manila (Philippines), reportedly one of the five most polluted cities in the world, is using an air-purifying paint — a paint that filters out nitrogen oxides when it reacts with sunlight and water vapor — on walls around the city, especially next to highways, to cl …
Sen. Grassley: Boycott Coca-Cola for leaving ALEC | The Raw Story
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:44 AM EDT (Raw Story)
Sen. Chuck Grassley on Saturday suggested that people should boycott Coca-Cola because the company decided not to renew its membership with the influential American Legislative Exchange Council. “U might think abt not drinking Coca Cola since company sucombed to pressure …
World's Largest Solar PV Power Plant Added to India's Grid
Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:18 PM EDT ()
Just 14 months ago, the Indian state of Gujarat announced that it was building a $2.3-billion solar park — the largest photovoltaic power station the world has seen so far.
Tinted Windows that Generate Electricity - German Company Begins Production
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:21 PM EDT (Technology Review)
A startup in Germany has developed a new kind of solar panel made of small, organic molecules deposited on polyester films. The technology is similar to what's used for OLED displays for phones and flat-screen TVs. The panels are flexible, and far lighter than conventional sola …
REPORT: Broadcast News Networks Misrepresent Intelligence On Iranian Nuclear Issues
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:52 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)
Many in the media have long since repudiated their failures in the lead-up to the Iraq War, acknowledging that they were too quick to accept the false notion that Iraq possessed a sizable and dangerous cache of weapons of mass destruction. The question today is whether they hav …
Sapphire Energy Raises $144 Million for an Algae Farm
Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 11:41 PM EDT (Technology Review)
This week, algae-biofuel startup Sapphire Energy announced it has received $144 million in new funding, which brings its total to over $300 million. The company, which is less than five years old, has been moving quickly to build a 300-acre algae farm as a large-scale demonstr …
Halotechnics - Molten Glass Thermal Storage Could Mean 6 Cent Solar
Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2012 11:36 PM EDT ()
Halotechnics, an early-stage solar-thermal startup and ARPA-E recipient, has developed two radical new materials for storing solar heat energy, using new kinds of salts and even a new kind of glass. These allow much higher temperatures than have been used to date to store …
Waitress sues after police seize $12,000 tip
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 1:35 AM EDT (Raw Story)
A struggling waitress in Moorhead, Minnesota is suing after police seized a $12,000 tip because they suspected it was drug money. The Forum of Fargo-Moorehead reported on Wednesday that Stacy Knutson was working at the Moorhead Fryn’ Pan restaurant when she discovered a …
Howard Morgan, Black Off-Duty Cop Shot 28 Times By White Chicago Officers, Faces Sentencing
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 7:25 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers -- and lived to tell his side of the story.
Condoleezza Rice's top deputy: 'I do regard the [enhanced] interrogation practices .. as torture'
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 4:12 PM EDT (Raw Story)
A senior Bush administration official and former head of the 9/11 Commission has described CIA interrogation techniques used on alleged terrorists as torture and said he warned in a secret memo at the height of the “war on terror” that they breached the US’s o …
Limbaugh Calls President Obama a Thug
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 5:04 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)
From the April 3 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Progress Report On The War On Women - The GOP Is Losing Badly
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 4:58 PM EDT (Think Progress)
A new poll of battleground states out yesterday underscores the political consequences of the GOP’s all-out war on women and their health care. The poll’s key findings: Among all registered voters, the president leads Mitt Romney 51 percent to 42 percent after trail …
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