Avatar Posted by zirenuq2n 5614 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Solar combo generator heats powers
A new type of solar thermal system for homes that can provide heat, hot water, and electricity is being tested in Boulder, Colo., over the next few m... read more »
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Avatar Posted by MarCoch 5547 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Artificial leaf hydrogen solar cell
Making hydrogen gas (the bubbles) from a solar cell in water, a Sun Catalytix prototype. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) Drawing from nature, Mass... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Anjali01 5699 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Utility NRG buys giant California solar plant
Heliostats track and focus sunlight directly onto BrightSource&39's Luz Power Tower solar boiler, which contains a steam turbine to generate electr... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Dakota02 5657 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Hawaii test hydrogen vehicles GM
The General Motors Fuel Cell vehicle on the coast of Oahu, near Honolulu, Hawaii. (Credit: Steve Fecht for General Motors) General Motors annou... read more »
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Avatar Posted by bimraspnogtryn 5516 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Nanosolar lands big orders printed solar cells
Nanosolar thin-film solar cells are made using a roll-to-roll process and then the cells are assembled into panels in another factory in Germany. (... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Massey 5692 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Republican wins hurt Obamas clean-energy plans
Big Republican wins in yesterday's election will not only kill chances that the U.S. Congress will pass a broad climate bill during President Barack... read more »
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Avatar Posted by yamirsarin 5692 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: U.S. gov awards $2.4 billion high-speed rail
Shown is a map of high-speed railroads currently under construction in the U.S., as well as corridors under development, and proposed lines under... read more »
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Avatar Posted by sirwinreblue 5489 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: U.S. wind growing again business still choppy
The U.S. wind industry is growing again after taking a big step backward last year. Yet turbine makers and wind farm developers are finding few r... read more »
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Avatar Posted by megaicenek 5697 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: California approves Tessera solar plant
NTR's Tessera Solar won approval for a 663.5-megawatt solar plant near Barstow in Southern California, the latest in a string of giant solar plants... read more »
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Avatar Posted by 09ZSirish 5491 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Low-income apartments high efficiency
BOSTON--Green building professionals can point to dozens of houses that are so efficient they consume less than half the energy of an average Americ... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Ben001 5699 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: SF Bay Area taps Better Place electric taxis
A battery-switching station for electric taxis in Tokyo. On the right, you can see the white cars drive in. On the left, fresh batteries are deli... read more »
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Avatar Posted by teraperspective 5592 days ago (http://reviews.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: plugged-in Prius
Toyota is testing the plug-in version of the Prius in fleets, in advance of sales to the public in 2012. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) 2012 Toyota... read more »
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Avatar Posted by cash21 5530 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Algae oil could dent U.S. oil imports report
Unrefined algae oil is also known as &39'green crude&39'. (Credit: Sapphire Energy) The U.S. has enough land in the right climate to produce homeg... read more »
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Avatar Posted by janebooene 5503 days ago (http://reviews.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Google Prediction Ford plug-ins efficient
Ford presented a demonstration using Google&39's Prediction API to find the most efficient route for a plug-in hybrid. (Credit: Ford) To take th... read more »
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Avatar Posted by 001xdark 5604 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: 260 mpg car might actually cool
Every time I see a concept car, I wonder why, many years later, I have still not seen anything like it on a road. Every time I see a hybrid car, I wo... read more »
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Avatar Posted by siringbim252 5686 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Study: Cloud computing business uses less energy
A Microsoft-sponsored analysis released today reaffirms what many tech companies have long been saying: computing is more efficient when it's concen... read more »
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Avatar Posted by berrycrrrr 5517 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: GE refrigerators go on greenhouse gas diet
GE will change the gas used when pouring in foam insulation for refrigerator products, a move which will reduce greenhouse gases from production si... read more »
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Avatar Posted by Anila 5615 days ago (http://reviews.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Chrysler EPA develop hydraulic drive minivan
Chrysler is fitting an EPA-patented hydraulic drive system into its Town &' Country minivan. (Credit: Chrysler) Today, Chrysler and the Envir... read more »
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Avatar Posted by jaqueline401 5578 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: GlassPoint greenhouse uses sun pump oil
GlassPoint&39's glass buildings are about 20 feet high and have mirrors inside which makes steam. (Credit: GlassPoint) In a meeting of solar ener... read more »
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Avatar Posted by sonjawinsa 5510 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Eco | Tags: Thermoelectric generator powered suns heat
There are solar panels that generate electricity and those that absorb heat for hot water. And now researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they've made... read more »
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