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Is the Green-Collar Dream Dead?
Evergreen Solar announced last week that it was closing its plant in Devens, Mass., laying off 800 workers, and moving production to China. Evergreen’s factory had received more than $40 million in...
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Nuclear Fusion Closer to Becoming a Practical Reality?
Using nuclear fusion – star energy – to power the world’s dishwashers, TVs and servers has long been a twinkling in the misty eyes of physicists, but it inched closer to reality this week as the...
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“Artificial Leaf” Converts Sunlight into Energy
Researchers at MIT have created an “artificial leaf” out of “earth-abundant, inexpensive materials — mostly silicon, cobalt and nickel.” There’s not yet a way to collect and store this energy, but...
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Cold Fusion Device Tested, Rossi Claims Sale Was Made
According to Wired UK: Today is set to be the start of a new era of cheap power, as a new type of low-cost nuclear reactor goes live in front of an audience of scientists and media representatives in...
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Ancient Fungi Could Help Fuel Our Future
From my local paper: A study released today in the journal Science identifies how a group of fungi prevalent in Oregon evolved to digest wood, properties that today hold promise for biofuels and even...
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Real-Life Steampunk Wants to Hack the Power Grid
Caleb Garling, my colleague at Wired Enterprise, writes: You might think of Danielle Fong as a real-life incarnation of Steampunk, that science-fiction literary genre that re-imagines Victorian...
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Nano Breakthrough Paves Way For Super Cheap Solar Panels
New from me at Wired, a graphene inspired photovoltaics breakthrough: Two things hold back the mass adoption of solar energy as a source of sustainable energy. One is the need to store and transmit...
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First Algae Powered Building Goes Up In Germany
From the press release: A 15-unit apartment building has been constructed in the German city of Hamburg that has 129 algae filled louvered tanks hanging over the exterior of the south-east and...
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Bloomberg on a Deutsche Bank report on solar energy prices: Even if the tax credit drops to 10 percent, solar will soon reach price parity with conventional electricity in well over half the nation: 36...
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