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Britons face energy spies Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Leave it to the British to figure out a way to shame homeowners into making their houses more energy efficient.
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Charging Up the Stairs- a New Renewable Energy Source? Posted: 2 years ago by Jetka
"Reading this, your body at rest is emitting about 100 watts into the environment. If you're sitting in an open plan office, count the number of surrounding colleagues and you don't need to be a maths genius to appreciate the possibilities of tapping into all that wasted energy.
Instead it could provide a renewable energy source to power office lighting or laptops - and it may be possible to recharge your mobile phone by walking to the photocopier."
I searched for "stairs" on the plime search engine, and it only seemed to catch around nineteen hits. So I guess this one's good. :)
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Wave Power - get electricity from waves Posted: 11 months ago by JFargo1688
I didn't know there were so many ways to try to get energy from waves. There are a couple of videos showing how some of the systems work.
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Catching The Tide Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
The viability of harnessing waves as a lucrative renewable energy source received a boost last week following the announcement that the world's first commercial wave energy project will begin delivering wave-generated energy to the north of Portugal later this month.
also see here
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Nanowire Generates Power By Harvesting Energy From The Environment Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
As the sizes of sensor networks and mobile devices shrink toward the microscale, and even nanoscale, there is a growing need for suitable power sources. Because even the tiniest battery is too big to be used in nanoscale devices, scientists are exploring nanosize systems that can salvage energy from the environment.
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No impact from Energy Saving Day Posted: 2 years ago by keroberos32
The UK's first Energy Saving Day has ended with no noticeable reduction in the country's electricity usage.
Way to go, UK!
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Dark energy makes galaxies keep their distance Posted: 2 years ago by deepchill
Galaxies today are struggling to clump together against the incredible repulsive power of dark energy, hints a new survey of thousands of galaxies. Measuring this anti-clumping effect puts a new arrow in the quiver of cosmologists seeking to uncover the nature of the mysterious force.
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Exhausted bee population 'to be given energy drinks to boost performance' Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Gardeners have been encouraged to give exhausted bees a drink of sugar and water to boost their energy levels during the poor summer.
They should also plant wildlife-friendly flowers such as sunflowers and buddleia to provide food for bees, the RSPB said.
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Hamsters in jackets harnessed for energy Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists have managed to harness the energy-producing power of hamsters by fitting them with tiny detector jackets.
The devices are strapped to the animals as they run on their cage wheels, capturing the biomechanical energy they release as they exercise.
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Energy Champions game Posted: 2 years ago by willcheng
Energy Champions is a fast and furious game where you must collect the recycling dropped from above by the selfish workers and place them in the correct recycling bins before your carbon workprint becomes too big.
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Petro-Canada Profit Drops 95% as Energy Prices Fal Posted: 4 months ago by chinook
Petro-Canada, the formerly state-owned oil company that’s being acquired by Suncor Energy Inc., said second-quarter profit fell 95 percent as petroleum prices tumbled amid the global recession.
Not that it matters, as ol' PetroCan will be gone tomorrow!
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Pond Bacterium Converts Light to Energy Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The wonderland known as Yellowstone National Park has yielded a new marvel an unusual bacterium that converts light to energy. The discovery was made in a hot spring at the park where colorful mats of microbes drift in the warmth.
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The Birth of Dark Energy Posted: 3 years ago by rambler
Distant supernovas (bright dots),
captured by NASA’s Hubble telescope,
open new vistas into the expansion
history of the early universe. As early
as 9 billion years ago, a mysterious
repulsive force known as dark energy
is seen exerting its influence.
Even weirder than dark matter—the invisible stuff constituting most of the mass of the universe—is dark energy, a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-faster rate.
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10 Natural Energy Boosters Posted: 2 years ago by bigtonyboy
10 alternatives to coffee and sugar to give you an energy boost
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Country Energy Profiles Posted: 2 years ago by buddha
There is a lot of information here regarding global energy consumption and production. It helps put things in a bit of perspective.
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Scientists Warn of Energy Drink Intoxication Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
"The caffeine content of energy drinks varies over a 10-fold range, with some containing the equivalent of 14 cans of Coca-Cola, yet the caffeine amounts are often unlabeled and few include warnings about the potential health risks of caffeine intoxication"
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Ontario to introduce green energy bill Posted: 9 months ago by amabaie
Ontario's Liberal government hopes its Green Energy Act to be introduced Monday will create 50,000 new jobs and transform the province's struggling economy, but environmentalists warn the plan relies too heavily on nuclear power.
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Supercomputer could throw light on dark energy Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Cosmologists at Durham University’s world-leading Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) have run a series of huge computer simulations of the Universe that could help solve one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. The results tell researchers how to measure dark energy – a force that counteracts gravity and could decide the ultimate fate of the cosmos.
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Google haunts you … with energy saving advice! Posted: 1 year ago by Nateebiinature
Google pulled together a great Halloween-themed Haunted House site that features an online calculator with quick ways to save energy in your home this year.
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Eiffel Tower cuts twinkling time to save energy Posted: 1 year ago by topofall
The Eiffel Tower is cutting down on its display of sparkling lights to set an example of energy saving, its management said Friday.
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