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Dreaming the Possible Dream
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USA-centric but world important
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The thing I love most about America is that there’s always somebody who doesn’t get the word — somebody who doesn’t understand that in a Great Recession you’re supposed to hunker down, downsize and just hold on for dear life. I have a couple of [...]
A Greener Way to Get Electricity from Natural Gas
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A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than conventional natural-gas plants, and even to coal-burning plants. But that can only come about if and when a price is set on the [...]
Plan B for Energy: 8 Revolutionary Energy Sources
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If efficiency improvements and incremental advances in today’s technologies fail to halt global warming, could revolutionary new carbon-free energy sources save the day? Don’t count on it—but don’t count it out, either
To keep this world tolerable for life as we like it, humanity must complete a marathon of technological change whose [...]
What is the Real Cost of Power Production?
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Market prices don’t reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment
Market prices don’t reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment, a National Research Council panel said in a report released [...]
VW enters the home power market
Teaming up with regenerative-power company Lichtblick, it aims to install 100,000 co-generation power units in Germany
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