Energy

7 Big East Coast Polluting Power Plants, Plus One Showing A Cleaner Way Forward

May 10, 2012

You may not be able to see the emissions in Mona Miri’s photographs, but you can see where they’re coming from.

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Thanks to Fracking, PR Industry is Booming

May 9, 2012

The public relations effort to sell America on fracking is a major job creator, the Onion reports.

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How the Energy Grid Actually Works

May 9, 2012

Renewables advocate Robert Llewellyn visits the National Grid control center to ask some tough questions.

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Carbon Capture & Storage Projects Stalled Last Year

May 9, 2012

Between all currently proposed and the eight operational CCS projects, just a fraction of a percent of emissions from energy production could be captured, the report concludes.

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New Federal Fracking Rules Would Only Apply to 11% of Nation’s Natural Gas Supply

May 9, 2012

Only Bureau of Land Management lands are covered by the draft rules, ProPublica explains — not private land, not state-owned land, where the vast majority of fracking is planned.

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The Inertial Seawave Energy Generator Rocks

May 8, 2012

Clever device puts a gyroscope in a boat hull, and converts rocking motion into electricity

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Crowdfunding Platform: Fracking Puts Colorado’s Organic Farmers Under Seige

May 8, 2012

We should be growing our own food! All of us should; as a society why did we stop? Our agricultural construct is a problem everyone refuses to acknowledge because we like bananas in Colorado or we want oranges in the winter. We don’t think about the fact that those tropical fruits came from…well, the tropics. Importing and exporting and transporting food is expensive, especially because it’s something we need daily and always.
want to share a video with you that’s very special to me and everyone who worked on it because it marks the beginning of an incredible journey. This is the first teaser we put together for Holy Terror; before gas drilling was even an issue in the North Fork Valley. We fell in love with an inspirational tale on a breathtakingly beautiful farm in the Rockies:

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Germany & UK Going Opposite Directions on Fracking

May 8, 2012

Even though different conclusions about proceeding with fracking have happened in the UK and Germany, in both cases the precautionary principle has been applied to a far greater degree than it has in the US.

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Disturbing Gulf Spill Photos of Oiled Sea Turtles Unearthed

May 7, 2012

NOAA kept dozens of photos of oiled sea turtles and dead wildlife out of the public eye during the height of the spill.

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Cleanweb Hackathon Boston: Watch Results LIVE!

May 6, 2012

Hackers and developers are hard at work right now, working on clean apps that have the potential to scale up our efforts to reduce carbon emissions and global warming. The apps use the power of technology, social media and easy usability to tackle resource constraints.

The competition began Saturday morning (May 5) and continues over a 30 hour period. Hacking ends at 2:30 pm today EST and will be followed by presentations by the teams, judging and awards at 3 pm. You can watch the proceedings live here through ustream. The live feed from will be on periodically throughout the rest of the weekend as well.

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