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Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the “Lunar Oasis” project.
“Imagine a bright flower on a plant in a crystal clear growth chamber on the surface [...]

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Even though the economy certainly isn’t ripe for those that would normally buy solar panels, the attendees at the Solar Power International 2008 were still in a good mood.
“I think there’s a flight to quality and we believe there’s a flight to solar because of that,” said Tom Werner, the CEO of California-based solar [...]

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Two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and a range of other valuable chemicals.
What? Yeah…they are saying that they can get fuel from sugar. A renewable source that many find intriguing as it is something that is in [...]

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It has been quite a while since I contemplated going back to school for further education. With the recent presidential election around the corner I am hearing quite a bit about the quest to find renewable energy sources, and the idea that there is going to be a big push for jobs in alter4native energy. [...]

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Promethan Power Systems is working on a way to use solar panels to create refrigeration with out a generator. It plans to show off a prototype unit, designed specifically for rural areas in India, at the Emerging Technologies conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next month.
If successful, the company’s end product will be a [...]

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*Random sentences about how gas prices are rising, and the need for alternative energy sources goes here*. Now rather than bore you with an intro like the previous line suggests let’s talk about something that NASA is doing, that may actually have some sort of use for us. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly [...]

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Unless you have the observation skills of modern day Helen Keller you have probably noticed that over the last decade or so the weather has changed quite a bit. In the simplest form it probably feels to many that seasons have just simply changed in a way that it almost feels like they start a [...]

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Yes folk, clean air is taking its toll on the Amazon rainforest. At least according to a study done by UK and Brazilian climate scientists presented in the journal Nature. The new study proclaims that there is a link between reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from burning coal and increasing sea surface temperatures in the tropical [...]

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Sounds like a mediocre Scientific Method, science project for a grade schooler doesn’t it? Well…I know you realize that there was probably a purpose to this question that had something to do with energy. It did.
According to the study: it takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb [...]

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Sugar gets us rolling, why not cars?
Chemists are describing development of a “revolutionary” process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which could be used to cheaply and efficiently power vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel cells without producing any pollutants.
The method is being described as the most efficient method for creating hydrogen ever introduced. Of [...]

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