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People Shooting at Wind Turbines in Michigan, Elsewhere

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 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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US Exported $723M More Solar Power Products Than It Imported in 2009: New Trade Balance Report

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 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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Holiday Gift Guide 2010: The Fashion Buff and Pop Culture Fan (Video)

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Turtle Stretcher Concept For the Marine Biologist-Turned-EMT

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Turtle Stretcher Concept For the Marine Biologist-Turned-EMT

Images via Yanko Design File this under “random yet practical.” It is a stretcher for sea turtles. The design, called Tuto and created by 2Y1DEA , is intended to help rescue workers, marine biologists and conservationists work with sea turtles — saving them, tagging them, or monitoring their health — without additional risk to the turtle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turtle Stretcher Concept For the Marine Biologist-Turned-EMT

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Turtle Stretcher Concept For the Marine Biologist-Turned-EMT

Images via Yanko Design File this under “random yet practical.” It is a stretcher for sea turtles. The design, called Tuto and created by 2Y1DEA , is intended to help rescue workers, marine biologists and conservationists work with sea turtles — saving them, tagging them, or monitoring their health — without additional risk to the turtle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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F1 Racing to Downsize from V8s to 4-Cylinder Engines in 2013

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on F1 Racing to Downsize from V8s to 4-Cylinder Engines in 2013

Photo: Flickr , CC A Smaller VRRRRRRRRRRROOOOMMMM The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has approved new specs for Formula One, and starting in 2013, F1s will see a huge engines downsizing (more details on this below) and the addition of new fuel-saving technologies. This is welcome news not only because it should reduce the fuel consumption of F1s by about 35%, but because it will turn this the sport into a kind of R&D lab for small engines. This increases the chances that improvements will find their way into mass-market vehi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fish Spawning Earlier Off California Coasts

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Fish Spawning Earlier Off California Coasts

Photo by evilthomthai via Flickr Creative Commons Fish living in waters off California’s coasts are changing the timing of their reproductive cycles, new studies show. Eighteen of the area’s most common species are spawning 15 to 62 days earlier than what was common in the 1950s, while eight other species are spawning between 15 and 38 days later. While experts aren’t sure why the trends are occurring, they’re eyeballing changes in water temperature as a culprit. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NASA Temperature Maps: Notice Anything Different?

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on NASA Temperature Maps: Notice Anything Different?

Images: NASA, public domain. Warming World NASA has just published two world maps showing temperature anomalies in the decades starting in 1970 and 2000. Looking at those maps, it’s pretty obvious that the planet is warming, especially closer to the poles. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Revenge of the Electric Car (Official Trailer!)

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Revenge of the Electric Car (Official Trailer!)

Coming in the Spring of 2011 As promised , now that the Revenge of the Electric Car facebook fan page has reach… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on WWF Document Format Saves Paper By Refusing To Let You Print

There are gads of programs, downloads, and even fonts that help you conserve paper when you print. And there are those little taglines on emails that encourage readers to think before printing. However, there is one new strategy from WWF that really gets people to stop printing. They’ve created a software program that allows you to save a document as a file that literally cannot be printed out. Talk about cutting off the problem at the source! … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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