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Fuel Cell to Slash Electric Bills?

24.10.2006 from The Energy Blog:
A UK company has successfully designed, built and tested a 1kW fuel cell stack - the fundamental building block of micropower generation - which can generate sufficient power for the average home.

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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Renewable energy]

Image: These fuel cells can run on biofuels © Agricultural Research Service / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

A new meaning for fridge-freezer

17.10.2006 from Unplugged Living:

Make major power savings with this unique fridge idea.

Image: Converted freezer

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Related topics/regions: [Consumption]

Tree-planting and carbon guilt

10.10.2006 from ClimateChange blog:

Planting trees means you can continue a high-carbon lifestyle, doesn't it? Well actually, no it doesn't.

Image: Planting a tree

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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Forests]

Shedding the pounds... of CO2, that is

09.10.2006 from aboutmyplanet:

How this family shed some of their CO2 'fat'.

Image: CO2 pollution

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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Environmental activism]

Nuclear energy for liquid fuels

06.10.2006 from AutoblogGreen:
An MIT study shows that liquid fuels from hydrogen generated using nuclear power and captured carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion is 'viable'.

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Related topics/regions: [Nuclear Issues] [Pollution]

Image: More nuclear plants?

ENVIRONMENT-EL SALVADOR: Carbon Is the Biz

04.10.2006 SAN SALVADOR, Oct 4 (IPS) - El Salvador is studying the Kyoto Protocol carefully, not because it has to cut its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but because this international agreement opens a way to earn profits and encourages investment for development.

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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Central America] [El Salvador] [Business] [Climate change] [Renewable energy]

Google offers to share power saving technology

02.10.2006 from The Energy Blog:

Google is lobbying the computer industry to improve the power efficiency of its products.

Image: Google logo

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Related topics/regions: [Corporations]