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Solar-Powered Tacos Hit Mexico (Video)

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Solar-Powered Tacos Hit Mexico (Video)

Street food vendors are in a prime position to make use of solar power — they’re out on corners, on roadsides, and under under the glaring sun dishing out to-go meals all day. And many around the world still use charcoal or natural gas to heat their grills. Seems to me like a redundancy. It did to the Swiss inventor featured in the video above, as well — so he introduced solar powered street vending to Mexico. Watch: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama

Photo: Wikipedia , CC Huge Issue With Small Resources The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology has released a report that is critical of the U.S. for not investing enough into energy R&D, recommending that spending more than triple from $5 billion to $16 billion (not that much when you compare it to the cost of other big expenditures). The U.S. lags many other country in energy R&D investments (see the chart below), and considering how much it spends on fossil fuels, any investments that reduce that consumption w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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