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Compared to basically every other appliance you have plugged in at home, the Playstation 3 sucks up more juice. That’s according to a new study by Australian consumer agency Choice, which found that when a PS3 is running, it sucks up five times more energy than a refrigerator. If you leave it on all the […]
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The White House has outlined their plan to increase fuel efficiency standards to 35 MPG by 2020, a move that will save Americans an estimated $100 billion in fuel costs.
The mandate was outlined in last year’s energy bill in December, but this proposal gives a boost to the timeline by requiring the mileage of passenger […]
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I happened across this video on algae biofuel today: a company I’ve never heard of, Valcent Products, claims they can grow algae to produce oil yields of 100,000 gallons per acre. That’s the upper range of estimates I’ve seen for algae production—an absolutely phenomenal amount of oil—which Valcent attributes to their ‘high density vertical bioreactor’ […]
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Spiegel Online published a series of pictures titled “Desertec: Strom aus der Wüste” (translation: Desertech: Electricity from the desert). It includes this image of how much land would be needed to power the world, Europe or Germany with solar-thermal power. The idea is similar to a post we did a year ago: How Much Land […]
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See that scary man? That there is Archer Quinn, self-proclaimed savior of mankind. He’s prepping a free energy device that he plans to unveil on June 20th of this year, on which date he predicts “the oil reign and those who governed by their money and crushed the people by the taxes and control of […]
I was never a fan of cutting the grass as a kid, but it was less about having to do work and more about our gas-powered lawnmower which was loud and reeked of fuel and oil. But back then, electric powered mowers were tethered to a power cable that I’m sure I would have accidentally […]
Last week Australia launched what was called the Southern Hemisphere’s first large-scale geosequestration project. The media release further suggests it is one of the one of the most comprehensive commercial scale carbon dioxide storage projects on the world stage.
The Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (a public-private partnership) believe they can pump 100,000 tonnes […]
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Ecover is lauded by the United Nations for protecting the earth, and the company’s products scour many a lean and green TreeHugging homes – even ours.
Looking beyond the products’ labeling and phosphate-freeness, the Organic Consumer’s Association decided to do its own tests.
Among some of our favorite eco-brands emerged Ecover. The much-loved household product, it was […]
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How much gas money would you save if you didn’t have to make a lot of left turns?
UPS, the delivery people, decided to re-structure the delivery routes taken by drivers to eliminate as many left turns as possible. Now that may sound weird, but how long have you sat in a left turn lane waiting […]
Christopher Hawthorne, architectural critic for the Los Angeles Times, makes some interesting points about a monster Whole Foods that opened in Pasadena. He acknowledges that it is big and has lots of selection,
“But the store is even more striking for what it says about the similar discontents plaguing the organic food and green architecture movements. […]
