Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough

Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day.

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Air-Powered Cars to Hit US by 2010

The Air Car is a compression-based alternative to the internal combustion engine, and ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast. Company officials want to make a $17,800, 75-hp six-seater capable of 1000 miles at up to 96 mph with each tiny fill-up.

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Econo Ed.101: Economic Scholar v2

Ann Arbor Lighting Up With 100% LEDs!

Last year Ann Arbor joined forces with LED manufacturer Cree, Inc, on an ever-expanding citywide LED initiative to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With a recent retrofit contract signed with Lumecon, Ann Arbor is on its way to being the first U.S. city to light up its downtown with 100% LED technology!

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80% Efficient Solar Panel?! Works at Night?!

The most expensive, carefully designed, and complicated solar panels in the world operate at about 40% efficiency. That means that, for every bit of sunlight that hits the panel, only 40% of it is turned into electricity.

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America's 50 Greenest Cities

Want to see a model for successful and rapid environmental action? Don't look to the federal government—check out your own town. Here, our list of the 50 communities that are leading the way. Does yours make the cut?

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Blogger gets 72 mpg from stock Euro Honda Civic diesel

What we're going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we're not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy,

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Willie Nelson's Biodiesel

All Americans understand the importance of reducing our dependence on foreign oil. Long or short haul carriers understand that every gallon we grow from our nation's crops reduces what we buy from foreign soil.

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Freecycle for Free and Eco-friendly Stuff

What is Freecycling? It's giving and recycling all at the same time.
Go to Freecycle.org to learn more. Best of all it's FREE!

Solar-Powered Homes Outselling Weak Market

Builders are seeing that they'll get more buyers coming to their developments when they have solar.
They sell like hot cakes," says Bernadette del Chiaro, an energy specialist at the advocacy group Environment California.

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Texas grows wind-energy capacity, maintains U.S. lead

Texas expanded its wind-energy capacity by 57 percent in 2007.

What's more, Texas has 1,238.28 megawatts under construction, tops among other states. With no permitting required and plentiful open spaces, the state is considered a prime location for wind-farm developments.

U.S. wind farms will generate just over 1 percent of the nation's electricity supply this year, and the estimated 48 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy is enough to power the equivalent of more than 4.5 million homes, according to the trade group
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The State of Hemp in America

With the new Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer, who signed North Dakota's hemp law in 1999 as Governor, being confirmed last week, we have a window of opportunity...
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