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A more efficient generator could convert more of the wind's energy into electricity.
WWW.TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM : ExRo Technologies, a startup based in Vancouver, BC, has developed a new kind of generator that's well suited to harvesting energy from wind. It could lower the cost of wind turbines while increasing their power output by 50 percent... READ MORE
Peak Oil: Prominent Peaker Tells Allies to (Temporarily) Pipe Down
WSJ.COM: ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL - WSJ.COM : So urges Robert Hirsch, one of the true eminences of the peakist crowd. Hirsch penned a seminal 2005 report for the Energy Department called “Peaking of World Oil Production” that warned of stark consequences as world oil supplies tighten... READ MORE
Japanese greenhouse gas emissions reach record level
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE :Japanese greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.3 percent to hit a record high in the year that ended in March, hurt by the extended shutdown of some nuclear power plants, while emissions from manufacturers continued to rise... READ MORE
Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change?
WWW.ALTERNET.ORG :Three years ago, I became obsessed with global warming. Practically overnight, my worries about its potential effects outstripped my worries about so many other national and global issues, even personal ones... READ MORE
Dirty Air Costs California Economy $28 Billion Annually
CAL STATE FULLERTON NEWS :Air pollution costs the California economy more than $28 billion annually, according to a new study released today and co-authored by two Cal State Fullerton economics professors... READ MORE
UK Coal fired up to bring clean energy out of the collieries
GUARDIAN : More than a dozen of the UK's former coal mining sites are to be redeveloped as wind farms under a scheme to turn old energy into new... READ MORE
Obama likely to boost alternative energy
WWW.SFGATE.COM :Barack Obama's election has members of the alternative energy world sounding positively giddy, an enthusiasm not shared by their competitors in the oil industry... READ MORE
Police warn of growing threat from eco-terrorists
GUARDIAN : Police have warned of the growing threat of eco-terrorism after revealing they are investigating a group which has supporters who believe that reducing the Earth's population by four-fifths will help to protect the planet... READ MORE
World's First Climate Change Refugees to Be Rescued in 2009
TREEHUGGER :Early in 2009 40 families, who’ve been called the ‘world's first climate change refugees,’ will relocated from their flooded Pacific Island to the nearby Papau New Guinean island of Bougainville... READ MORE
Boeing: Jet biofuel in three years
CLIMATE PROGRESS :Darrin Morgan, who oversees strategy development and execution for Boeing’s Sustainable Biofuels Program, told Wired.com that the company expects a bio-fuel blend jet fuel to be certified sometime within the next three years... READ MORE