Tag: Energy
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Dirty Energy vs. Clean Energy in the Race to Power Off-Grid Energy Markets
SIERRA CLUB INTERNATIONAL — A war is shaping up that pits an entrenched, aging and uncompetitive fossil fuel industry against a young, innovative and increasingly competitive set of renewable energy technologies. The former relies on their entrenched status chock full of obscenely high subsidies to fight of a set of …
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Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the ‘Stonewall’ of the Climate Movement?
TOMDISPATCH — Bill McKibben: Still, let’s put things in perspective: Stonewall took place in 1969, and as of last week the Supreme Court was still trying to decide if gay people should be allowed to marry each other. If the climate movement takes that long, we’ll be rallying in scuba masks …
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MUST SEE VIDEO: Colbert’s Take on the Exxon Pipeline Spill
ECOWATCH — Ready for a little comic relief? Check out this video clip from last weeks The Colbert Report highlighting the recent …
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Hydrogen Fuel Production Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Alternative Energy Market
“Our new process could help end our dependence on fossil fuels,” said Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering “Hydrogen is one of the most important biofuels of the future.”
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Gasland’s Impact on the Explosive Growth of the Anti-Fracking Movement
ECOWATCH — Three years later, anti-fracking activism has grown into a full-fledged national movement. Its members are diverse, ranging from homeowners displaced by the shale gas industry’s harmful activities, to farmers …