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Conservative Politician Blasts Outdated, Carbon-Intensive Energy Policy
Fighting climate change and modernizing our energy grid shouldn't be a partisan issue. At least one conservative recognizes that.
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End of an Era: Mat McDermott Shares His Favorite TreeHugger Moments
Dear TreeHugger readers, you've no doubt noticed some changes on the site in past weeks. You'll notice other changes coming as well, one of which being that you won't be seeing aany more pieces under...
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IEA: World to Burn 1.2 Billion More Tons of Coal Per Year by 2017 (If We...
Since 1 ton of coal produces 2.86 tons of CO2 when burned, this would mean an additional 3.4 billion tons of CO2 produced just from this extra coal.
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Germany Still Kicking Ass on Clean Energy: 2012 Production Forecast to be 15%...
Germany has been a rock star lately when it comes to clean energy. Their policies have encouraged huge growth in solar and wind, and over the years this has added up to a very significant chunk of the...
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Nanomaterials that Split Sunlight Into Separate Colors Could Bring Solar...
The processes to make these panels are still expensive, but with economies of scale, they should come down in price dramatically over time.
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New U.S. Wind Power Capacity Might Beat Natural Gas and Coal in 2012
We only have data up to November 30th so far, so we can't be sure what the final 2012 numbers will look like, but for the first 11 months of the year, new installed wind power in the United States...
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Is Hines La Jolla Project America's Largest Net-Zero Energy Office Building?...
By these standards, my drafty old house is Net-Zero Energy. There's something wrong here.
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Warren Buffett Buys World's Largest Solar Project from SunPower for $2.5 Billion
Warren Buffett's utility, which is part of his Berkshire Hathaway holding company, has just announced that it is buying SunPower's Antelope Valley Solar Projects, located in California, for between 2...
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What Wastes Enough Energy to Power 2.5 Million Cars and Can be Seen From Space?
It's already bad enough that we create a lot of carbon pollution by doing useful things like heating our homes and moving people and goods around, do we also have to burn gigantic amounts of fossil...
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December 2012 Saw Record-Breaking 5.5 GW of New Wind Power in US
It's always fun to keep track of new clean energy records, but some are more impressive than others. 5.5 gigawatts of new wind capacity installed in a single month in a single country is just massive,...
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu Steps Down
Steven Chu, who is no doubt one of the best Energy Secretaries ever, is announcing that he is stepping down. We thank him for fighting the good fight for nature and science.
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Vote for Your Favorite 'Future Energy' Projects
Entrepreneurs have pitched their clean-energy projects to Future Energy, and by voting for your favorite you'll help send the winners to the ARPA-e summit where they could get funding and make these...
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After Smart Phones, Smart Wind Turbines
Wind turbines are not only getting bigger, they are also getting smarter. Various improvements that might not be visible to the naked eye are making them more productive and reducing the cost of wind...
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Happy Birthday Thomas Alva Edison
We round up some of our best posts about the inventor.
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Baby Boomers have the biggest carbon footprints
They have the most money and they spend it on driving and air travel.
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U.S. added 147 megawatts of geothermal energy in 2012
Geothermal power has a promising future, but so far it has lagged behind most of its other renewable energy cousins, especially wind and solar.
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German town goes off the grid, achieves energy independence
Town residents banded together to create their own energy grid fed by wind turbines, solar, and biogas.
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Wind Surpasses Nuclear in China
Wind has overtaken nuclear as an electricity source in China. In 2012, wind farms generated 2 percent more electricity than nuclear power plants did, a gap that will likely widen dramatically over the...
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Different name, same liquid metal batteries!
Few technologies excite me more than grid-scale liquid metal batteries. They're not as fully developed as other green technologies such as plug-in vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels, but they...
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Ontario might get a 400MW pumped storage station five times the height of...
While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or...
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