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Energy1: Solar Energy Is The Most Abundant Sour...
Nov 12 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Garden1: Circular "no-Work" Or "kit...
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
. . . 5 or 6 star pickets, . . . 3.5m fencing mesh, . . . tie wire, . . . 1 bag dolomite or gypsum (on acid soils), . . . 1 bag chicken manure, . . . 9.5 m garden edging Drive a stake into the center of the proposed garden. At...
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Energy1: Ge Thin Film Plant To Open In Colorado
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
GE said that it has closed more than 100 megawatts of orders, . . . including 60 megawatts with NextEra, an existing GE wind customer. The firm will be building a 400-megawatt factory in the U.S. . . . with production starting in 2013. That would make...
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Energy1: Paper-Thin Fully-Printed Ultracapacito...
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Paper Battery, a 3-year-old company . . . located at the Russell Sage College INVEST Incubator, . . . has designed an ultracapacitor thinner . . . than any product currently in production today. The company's innovation is a novel architecture and...
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Energy1: Cheap Oil Isn't Coming Back
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Energy1: Who Consumes The Most Energy Worldwide?
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Who consumes the most energy worldwide? USA or China? 4,190 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2010 . . . China. 3,741 TWh that year . . . United States.
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Energy1: Ge Global Team Targets Simplifying Hom...
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
GE Global Team Targets Simplifying Home Solar PV Installations According to Charlie Korman, manager of Solar Energy Programs at GE Global Research, . . . the average cost today of installing a solar system . . . on a typical home runs $6.50 per-wa...
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Energy1: Energy Storage Is A Critical Piece Of...
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Adding Energy storage, so solar and wind plants can provide power . . . even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. Energy Storage, removes the requirement to use electric power . . . as soon as it is created on the power grid. This...
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Transportation2: 1968 Amc "amitron" Aff...
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Seats: 3 Range: 150 miles (241 km) per charge, Speed: 50 mph (80 kph) Regenerative braking Battery weight: 200 pounds (91 kg) . . . The small battery pack just in front of the car is the whole thing, and . . . was claimed to have the capacity of the...
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Energy2: Why Solar Energy? (Video)
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Solar Energy Abundance! Falling Solar Costs Solar Energy Industry Growth Largest Solar Power Projects
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Energy2: Solar Windows/siding?
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Quotea step toward photovoltaic glass is pretty impressive. . . . The team even thinks they may be able . . . to tweak the dyes in use now to include infrared light and . . . get up to 15% efficiency. This is without mentioning . . . that if a window i...
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Energy2: Why Not To Trust Percentages
Nov 13 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Wind power now contribute about 3% of the total U.S. electricity In 2010, the U.S. wind turbines industry installed . . . 5,115 MW of generating capacity, . . . increasing the country’s installed wind farm capacity by 15%, . . . according to the Ameri...
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Health2: New Cancer Test
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
Quote New 'liquid biopsy' blood test can detect ONE cancerous cell in a BILLIONDoctors could monitor whether treatment is working on a daily basis Test needs just a teaspoon of blood and can be done repeatedly Healthcare giant Johnson & Joh...
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Energy-2: Solar Panels With Attached Micro-Inve...
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
QuoteMicro-Inverters can be bolted to the racking . . . under each of an installation’s solar panel . . . to convert DC power into AC for each panel individually.(CLICK on the picture, to read the whole story) QuoteCurrently all the panels in a roofto...
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Economy2: Who Owns You?
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
QuoteThe reliance on foreign oil and . . . its increasing price has raised havoc on the trade deficit in recent years. In the years 2001 through 2010 . . . the U.S. imported $1.79 trillion’s worth of oil . . . out of the total accumulated “trade d...
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Energy2: Solar Industries, Brutal Global Price...
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
(CLICK on the picture, to read the full source Article) Quote The solar industry is in the midst of a brutal global price war . . . which has led to the bankruptcy of 4 U.S.-based solar producers, . . . including the high-profile collapse of governmen...
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Transportation2: Battery-Wheel Powers 3-Wheel Car
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Transportation2: Electric Vehicle Design Of...
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Energy2: How Much "renewable Energy" Is...
Nov 15 2011 02:20 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Health2: Clean Air. When You Have It - You Neve...
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
(CLICK on picture to see source article) Just look at this picture from Beijing, . . . it tells you why China, is so anxious, . . . to move fast in the electric cars space. The question is about surviving: . . . economically in the Peak Oil environmen...
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Transportation1: Affordable Car (Concept) Tata...
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Energy2: Ge Oled & Led Christmas Trees
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
The OLED team at GE Global Research has gone over the top . . . with their traditional OLED holiday greeting-- this year . . . displaying the first ever OLED Christmas tree. 500 GE Color Effects G35 RGB LED nodes (10 50-light strands) . . . synchroniz...
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Energy2: Printing Oled Newspaper, Affordable?
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
GE demonstrated roll-to-roll printing, Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) . . . (think newspaper style printing) process for OLEDs thats: . . . . . . high performance, . . . . . . energy efficient, and . . . . . . surprisingly inexpensive. The applic...
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Transportation1: California To Create A Multi-M...
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
QuoteIn order for high-speed rail (HSR) systems. . . . . . to reach their maximum ridership and. . . . . . revenue potential,. . . they’ll need to connect with local transit services. . . so longer-distance travelers. . . can get to their final destina...
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Multipurpose-2: Anahat, A Hat And A Solar Cooker
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | eds in Ed's Articles
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