Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
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Plug “Leaking” Appliances With Power Strips
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Have you ever thought about all the household appliances and electronic devices you leave plugged in? Did you know that many appliances, such as TVs, Cable boxes, VCRs, DVD players, computers and kitchen appliances continue to draw a small amount of power when they are switched off? The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that in [...]
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Florida Town Uses Sunlight To Power Street Lights
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
A Florida neighborhood is using the sun to “see the light”. The Turtle Rock neighborhood in Palmer Ranch (Sarasota) may very well be the first in the nation to install solar-powered street lights. The community of Turtle Rock decided to switch from natural gas powered street lamps after last year’s spike in fuel prices. “Our [...]
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Supermarket Powers Checkout With Customer Vehicles
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
A supermarket in Gloucester, U.K. has come up with a novel approach to saving energy by harnessing energy from passing vehicles to power the store’s checkouts. The store has installed kinetic road plates in the store’s parking lot. Whenever a vehicle drives over these plates, they are pushed down by the vehicles weight. This causes [...]
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Google Plans To Corner The Renewable Energy Market
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
The world’s leading search engine is positioning itself to take over a whole market if current research into renewable energy pays off. An executive in charge of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) green energy programs, Bill Weihl, told Reuters recently that the company could have “multiple megawatts” of clean power being generated in just a few years. [...]
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Green Energy Outshines Fossil Fuel In Attracting Investments
Friday, June 5th, 2009
For the first time ever, green energy surpassed fossil fuels in attracting investment for power generation, according to figures released today by the United Nations. Clean technologies such as wind, solar attracted more than $140 billion compared with $110 billion for gas and coal for electrical power generation. More than a third of the investment [...]
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Smart Power Grid Pricetag $100 Billion
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Barack Obama economic stimulus package calls for significant investment in alternative energy tchnologies. One very interesting part of this plan has nothing directly to do with developing specific alternative energy, instead it calls for renewable energy power grid can will be more efficient then those in existance today. A substantial increase in the amount of [...]
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Tuvok Obama Says Live Green And Prosper
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Barack Obama has stated he’s a big Star Trek fan. What’s funny, he would make a believable body double for actor Tim Russ as the Vulcan, Tuvok on the Star Trek: Voyager television series. But it’s the Vulcan salute “Live Long And Prosper” that Obama can spin and use as America’s new salute toward the [...]
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Go “Green” And Supplement Your Income Recharging Batteries
Friday, February 6th, 2009
President Barack Obama wants America to charge into the future with alternative energy technology and greener living. One of the ways that you can do your part and make some money at the same time is to recharge batteries. I know it might sound silly but there is a very big market in it. Thing [...]
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Obama Plans Green Energy Investment In Public Universities
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Barack Obama is betting on public universities to help America get off fossil-fuels and invest new alternative green techologies. According to the President’s stimulus plan, $150 billion will be invested over the next 10 years to develop new clean-energy technologies, and a significant portion of this sum will go to public research universities. Much of [...]
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Miley Cyrus Goes “Green” With A Prius
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Miley Cyrus, the daughter of singer Billy Ray Cyrus, star of the hit kid television show Hannah Montana is also a talented singer. She got a “green” Sweet 16 birthday present that is out of this world. Here dad, Billy Ray “Elvira” Cyrus gave his beautiful daughter a brand spanking new black Prius hybrid. Two [...]