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Endless Summer: Perpetual Energy Resources
What we need is an energy source that won't run out, isn't toxic, and is readily available worldwide. Oh, wait - we already have one.,What we need is an energy source that won't run out, isn't toxic, and is readily available worldwide. Oh, wait - we already have one.
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Renewable Energy: Solar Power
Solar power is one of the most attractive alternatives to fossil fuel-powered energy, but there are some obstacles blocking the way to immediate widespread usage.
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Alternate Power Production Methods
This article discusses the alternate power sources which are assisting the main power generation methods in a very important way.
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Could Harnessed Solar Power Be The Answer To The Energy Crisis
Power collected from the sun's rays could generate safe, endless electricity to Earth.
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Expanding Your Indoor Garden.
Your imagination joined wiht knowledge increases your ability to grow food indoors.
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Generating Power from Solar Energy
Electricity generated from solar power makes up a growing portion of the worldwide power generation market.
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Hydrogen Power Hurdles
As renewable energy becomes big business, here are five challenges slowing the conversion to a Hydrogen Economy now.
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Light and the Indoor Garden
You can grow food indoors even in a room with no windows.
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Solar-Powered Purses and Satchels
If you think you've seen it all in gadgets for girls, then how about a solar-powered bag? Charge your mobile phone or your Ipod, or light up the inside of your purse.
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Straw-Bale Strength
The Friends Community School, a Quaker-based institution located in College Park, Maryland, is building their new classroom facility entirely out of straw bales.
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The Coming Hydrogen Economy
It's clean, renewable and, combined with solar power, it may turn out to be one of the more affordable energy alternatives.
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The Eco House
The Eco House is one of Leicester's first steps towards environmental unity.
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Online Tips for a Green Halloween
A guide to Websites and pages with information about Earth-friendly Halloween decorating, trick-or-treating and celebrating.
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Alternative Energy
As carbon-based energy supplies are dwindling, other sources of energy are being explored
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An Introduction to Solar Energy
Solar power is the ultimate renewable energy source. Here is an introduction to the basic science that makes all solar energy technologies possible.
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Attic Ventilation: Venting Hot Air
Attic Ventilation is essential for exhausting hot air, to ease the load on the air conditioner, and to lower utility bills. This can be done with roof vents and fans.
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Cities in the Sky
<b><i>The</i></b> plan. Well, OK, <b>a</b> plan.
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Emissions policy update
So forests can't compensate for greenhouse gas emissions after all. It has served as another side-stepping technique for policy-makers. When will they stop avoiding responsibility?
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Greener Home Construction
Steps are being taken to provide consumers of new homes that use more sustainable and renewable energy sources.
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Greenpeace report on Spain
A new report issued this week highlights the environmental resources available to this country of sun and sea.
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How We Get Power from the Sun
The Sun bathes the Earth in a constant flow of electromagnetic energy and there are many different ways that we can harvest that clean energy for our use.
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Passive Solar Cooling and Heating
Learn more about passive solar heating and cooling and some of the different ways in which you can cool and heat your home, without using energy.
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Revisiting Renewable Energy
With all the focus on terrorism, we may be forgetting some important details about our energy policy. What can we do to stop our continuing dependence on oil?
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Save with LED Christmas Lights
Energy-saving LED Christmas lights have become more widely available and less expensive. Here's where (and why) to buy LED holiday lights.
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Solar Antennae that Generate Power
A team at the Idaho National Laboratories has developed an innovative method to manufacture nanoscale antennae at the right size to capture energy from the sun.
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The Brown's Daylilies
Spend some time with the Brown's as they try to live wisely.
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Sheep In, Coyotes Out: High Tensile Electric Fencing
Because we are starting from scratch, we are building everything on our farm, including fencing. From my research the best fencing available for sheep is the New Zealand style high tensile fence, which will keep the sheep in and the predators out.
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Alternative Energy Sources
Simple definitions of the main sources of renewable energy including solar heat, the difference between fossil fuel and biomass; and a description of tidal power.
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Best Eco Travel Gadgets
Environmentally-minded travellers keen to adopt a more sustainable approach to travel will find these eco-friendly gadgets worth packing.
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Dubai No Longer a Pleasant City
Dubai expands to its detriment. New Sheratons, Hyatts, Sofitels, Radissons and Hiltons are coming on line. Can Solar Power save this once beautiful city?
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How to Install a Power Attic Vent
Power attic vents are active; turbine (whirlybird) and ridge vents, passive. Temperature triggers power vent operation; air flow/negative pressure operate passive vents.
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The Big Boom
Everything you always wanted to know about propelling a ship using nuclear bombs, but were afraid to ask.
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The Economics of Discovery
Suppose someone tapped a non-polluting, practically inexhaustible power source with dirt as a raw material.
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Unique Gifts for Gardeners
Is there agardener on the gift list waiting to be filled? Someone at home or work who loves plants? Here are some top gift ideas for that green-thumb person's present.
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Vajk's Dilemma
Is it nobler in the mind to take the best stock and leave home while we can, or to huddle together on a spent cinder, sharing resources equally and awaiting a spiritual reward?
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Housing
Ways that urban sprawl can be a positive change for our future and the environment. Things that you can do to make our communities and families a more productive place to live and share.
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Using Rainwater Makes Sense
Use of harvested rainwater to irrigate your desert landscape is cost-effective and wise.
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Breaking News 7
Solar Power could make quite a difference in the lives of islanders living on remote atolls.
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Find Eco-Friendly Fashion Online
Ethical fashion and sustaining the environment is a hot issue in the fashion industry these days. Know where to find the greenest and most fashionable eco-buys online.
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Of Reactors and Regolith
For a manned mission to Mars, two needs must be addressed: available electrical power, and propellant for the trip home. Nuclear power and In-Situ Resource Utilization promise to address both.
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Outdoor Lighting for Camping
Whether car-camping or backpacking, many lighting options are available, from headlamps to candle lanterns to gas powered lanterns to flashlights and more.
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Solar Greenhouses
Resources for solar greenhouses, composting greenhouses, and animal-heated or bio-heated greenhouses. Gives principles involved and sources for plans, photos and how-to.
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Best New Business Ideas for 2008
Create your own or grow what you've got: what's listed are the best new business ideas for 2008, and why they'll succeed with the proper planning, support and financing.
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GPS Technology
What Is GPS and How Does It Work?
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Green Christmas Ideas
Celebrate the holidays with family and friends by spending time together, creating homemade gifts and recycling old items to create new memories.
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Introduction to Renewable Energy Issues
In Kyoto last year, countries around the world agreed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Finding alternative energy sources to power the world requires breakthroughs in technology and the way we think.
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Nine Wind-Powered Web Hosts
A guide to Web hosting companies that use wind power or wind energy offsets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Spaceship Set to Crash into Moon
The ESA spacecraft Smart-1 will smash into the moon on September 2, and if you're lucky, you may even witness the impact.
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The ISS Grows
The crew of Atlantis will participate in spacewalks as they add trusses to the International Space Station.
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The Photoelectric Effect
The photoelectric effect can be harnessed to create energy from sunlight using photovoltaic cells.
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