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These wind turbines were modeled after stegosauri
Generally, gigantic engineering companies don’t truck with whimsy. But Siemens, which makes many of the wind turbines popping up on horizons around the world, has created a suite of new […]
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Need a job? Skip Harvard. Try the South Dakota School of Mines.
Grads from the South Dakota school's mining program will earn a higher salary than Harvard grads -- at first.
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Have you seen this radioactive fracking tool that Halliburton lost?
There's probably a reward, if you have.
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Manufacturers of pink slime sue ABC for reporting on pink slime
A lawsuit filed by Beef Products, Inc., seeks $1.2 billion in damages, blaming its business problems on ABC's reporting.
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Energy democracy: Three ways to bring solar to the masses
More Americans are getting their hands on solar, thanks to innovative new financing and ownership models that do away with high upfront costs.
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By 2015, you could own an electric Batmobile
Rigid fuel efficiency standards and a willing auto industry offer promise that the electric Model T -- a car that will change the way the world drives -- is coming. But it'll probably look like the superhero car of the future.
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Big-box stores go big on solar
While not nearly making up for the other ways in which big-box stores degrade the environment, the focus on rooftop solar is an important step.
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Sweden recycles so effectively that it has to import garbage to incinerate
Which is what you might call a mixed blessing.
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Chevy isn’t losing $49,000 on every Volt it sells, for God’s sake
Reuters bungles basic math, claiming Chevy loses $49,000 for every Volt it sells. Wrong: Allow us to explain using some sort of odd analogy about baskets.
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This is what air pollution sounds like
One of the terrifying qualities of modern pollution is that you can’t always see it. In old pictures of industrial cities, the pollution was disgustingly apparent. But today, pollution is […]
