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Graph of the Day: The Cost of Production Of Oil

Estimates of the cost of production for oil production form various locations Image Credit: Oil Drum Whenever we speak of Peak Oil, the optimists point out that the technology for finding replacements will turn up as the prices rise; look at what has happened with the oil sands and with shale gas. But as this graph shows, each alternative just gets more expensive. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Hand-Powered Table Saw Offers Electricity-Free Precision (Video)

Image credit: Bridge City Tool Works When I pondered the question of whether we need to embrace the sacred to survive peak oil , I confessed to not being the most practical man in the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t know the value of a good tool. And from hand-powered log splitters , through hand-cranked blenders , … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Elon Musk and SolaCity Donate Solar System to Hurricane Response Center in Alabama

Elon Musk hard at work in his office. Photo: OnInnovation , CC It’s the Time for Giving Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and chairman of Solarcity (yeah, he’s a busy man), and Solarcity have donated a 25-kilowatt solar power system to the South Bay Communities Alliance’s (SBCA) Hurricane Response Center in Coden, Alabama. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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People Shooting at Wind Turbines in Michigan, Elsewhere

A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan’s Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wasn’t an easy find, though. Seems shooting bullets at wind farms is nothing new. The Michigan incident is just the latest episode of upset people taking out their anger on defenseless nacelles, blades and, in this case, transformers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Biggest Solar PV Farm in U.S. Goes Online in Nevada

Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It’s 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of not being just a plan anymore. Construction began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert site and up to 350 workers installed nearly 775,000 thin-film PV solar panels. Now that it is finished, the Copper Mountain Solar farm is the l… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Exported $723M More Solar Power Products Than It Imported in 2009: New Trade Balance Report

photo: Oregon DOT / Creative Commons Next time someone bemoans the fact that even all the renewable energy manufacturing is heading overseas, point this next report out: According to new industry analysis carried out by GTM Research for SEIA , the US is a net exporter of solar power products, to the tune of $723 million in 2009. Here are more of the key points from the

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World’s Greenest Nation? Vatican City Has Most Solar Power Installed Per Capita

photo: Matthew McDermott Let’s leave differences about the Roman Catholic Church’s metaphysical teachings and some of their social stances aside for the moment, and recognize that

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How Customer Service Can Help Save the Planet.

Image credit: meddygarnet , used under Creative Commons license. (This photo does not show a representative of any of the companies mentioned in the post.) Some time ago my friend and colleague Jerry Stifelman noted that just because something saves the world, that doesn’t make it popular , and he was right. Product and service quality are every bit as important as environmental credentials if g… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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