May 29, 2009
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3385
An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of ...
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Global warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. If we attempt to reduce the fever, but ignore the disease, we will, at ...
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Scientists are turning agricultural leftovers,
wood and fast-growing grasses into a huge variety
of biofuels- even jet fuel. But before these
next-generation biofuels go mainstream, they have to ...
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By Doug Oakley
Berkeley Voice
Posted: 06/06/2009 04:24:15 PM PDT
Berkeley has ended its six-year attempt to save the world by burning biodiesel in its trucks and machinery amid concerns it actually ...
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WASHINGTON (The Associated Press) - Jun 10 - By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer
Congress is all but abandoning President Barack Obama's goal of
producing fully one-quarter of the ...
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by Alan Burdick
ISSUE: Summer 2009, FRONTLINES | May 28, 2009
Don't look now, but there's a giant rechargeable battery growing on your lawn. It's called a tree.