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Facebook's decision to build a coal powered data centre prompted environmentalists to protest

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Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:57
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Social networking site Facebook's decision to build a coal powered data centre has prompted environmentalists to launch a protest on the same site. In January this year facebook, which launched in 2004 and now has more than 500 million users, announced it would build a coal-powered data centre in…
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Solar Roadways Giving More Details About Their Road-Embedded Solar Cells Technology

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Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:57
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Scott Brusaw, an electrical engineer in Idaho, also the founder of Solar Roadways,  has come up with an interesting idea that might just catch up if some key issues will be solved: making roads out of solar cells that would produce electricity and pay for themselves.
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Electricity Collected from the Air Could Become the Newest Alternative Energy Source

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Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:57
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Imagine devices that capture electricity from the air ― much like solar cells capture sunlight ― and using them to light a house or recharge an electric car. Imagine using similar panels on the rooftops of buildings to prevent lightning before it forms. Strange as it may sound, scientists al…
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Analysis: China clean energy plan hinges on coal price

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Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:57
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China’s $736-billion push to harness nuclear, wind, solar and biomass energy hinges on making the cleaner fuels competitive with cheap and CO2-intensive coal without derailing surging industrial growth. The world’s second-largest economy faces formidable challenges to make the plan work. Beijing…
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Tapping into the electric power of heat

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Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:57
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What if every gallon of gas in our cars and lump of coal in our power plants did extra duty? What if we could get more work out of our fuel? That’s the basic idea of waste heat recovery systems. A young venture based in San Francisco, California, called Alphabet Energy aims to take the decades-…
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Arctic to be ice-free in summer in 20 years: scientist(61)
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Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist said on Thursday.
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India, China ink pact to fight climate change together(43)
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India and China Wednesday signed an agreement to cooperate on ways to fight climate change. They will also continue to work together in international climate deal negotiations.
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U.S. must tackle emissions first: Chu(57)
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The United States should get its own carbon-emitting house in order before looking to slap tariffs on energy-intensive goods from developing countries like China and India, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Tuesday.
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Mumbai Fishermen Take Action(67)
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The Conservation Action Trust and Kolwanimata Mitra Mandal, a local fishermen organization, join hands in Mumbai to demand for action against climate change and to maintain CO2 level in the atmosphere at 350ppm.
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CO2 emissions of developed nations rose in 2007 — U.N.(62)
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The carbon dioxide emissions of industrialized nations rose 1 percent in 2007, a “worrying rise” ahead of the climate summit in Copenhagen this December, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat reported today.
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