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Eight Reasons Distributed Power Generation Is Superior To Central Power Station Expansion

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Eight Reasons Distributed Power Generation Is Superior To Central Power Station Expansion

Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia installed three Capstone C65 ICHP MicroTurbines® – a form of distributed power generation. Image credit: Capstone Turbine Now that I have succeeded in disturbing a number of engineers and environmentalists, while admitting the difficulty of even defining distributed power (see What Is Distributed Power Generation? for details), it is time to lay out what makes distributed power generation (DP) superior to expanding central power ge… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quantum Dot Displays May Trump OLEDs for Most Awesome TV Screens

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Quantum Dot Displays May Trump OLEDs for Most Awesome TV Screens

Image via Engadget Everyone talks about OLED displays as one day being the thing to beat for TVs, since OLED technology offers incredibly vivid colors with increasingly less electricity consumption. LG has already utilized the display technology in a couple television models , though they cost and arm and a leg. Now the company has moved on to explore another option – QLEDs. They could be even more crisp with even lower energy requirements. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Retracing Darwin’s Steps, and Managing the Human Impact on the Galapagos Islands

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Retracing Darwin’s Steps, and Managing the Human Impact on the Galapagos Islands

When considering history, it’s important not to get too stuck on just looking at what’s already behind you. All photos credit: Collin Dunn The difference between visiting the islands largely untouched by humans and those once habited by people is pretty stark. After seeing the pristine, un-invaded island of Fernadina, we stopped in Egas Port, on the island of Santiago, to retrace a few of Darwin’s steps, and see what can happen when humans have a hand in writing the natural history of the Galapagos. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Reuse Community Takes Facebook By Storm – With More to Come

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Reuse Community Takes Facebook By Storm – With More to Come

Image Credit: Reuse Connection Repurposing a stove into a high-powered entertainment system might not be to everyone’s liking, but we still love reuse—warts and all. When I asked how we identify that fine line between reuse and hoarding , the question seemed to resonate with our readers—who clearly are passionate about the idea of reuse. (“Who could have guessed?”, I hear you cry.) Having read t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sri Lanka Turns Battleground Into Elephant Sanctuary

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Sri Lanka Turns Battleground Into Elephant Sanctuary

Sri Lanka’s Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. Photo: S J Pinkney / Creative Commons . The escalation last week of hostilities between North Korea and South Korea has surely been a setback to plans to create an ecological corridor out of the

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Have a 2004-2007 Prius? Toyota is Recalling 650,000 Hybrids Over Coolant Risk

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Have a 2004-2007 Prius? Toyota is Recalling 650,000 Hybrids Over Coolant Risk

Photo: Flickr , CC Voluntary Recall If you own a Toyota Prius with a model year between 2004 and 2007, you should probably keep an eye on the mailbox for a letter from Toyota. The company has announced a voluntary recall of 650,000 Prius hybrids (about 390,000 are in North America, 180,000 in Japan and 70,000 in Europe, according to Toyota) to fix the cooling pump. This is a preventive measure; the pump could overheat and cause a loss of power, but so far there hasn’t been any reports of accidents or injur… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

photo: Jason McHuff / Creative Commons For months now, indeed for nearly all of 2010, the hopes for a global climate deal coming out of COP16, now underway in Cancun, Mexico, have been downplayed again and again. In fact, on the second day of talks Marc Gunther over at GreenBiz produced a list of

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New Cheaper, Simpler Phonophone Amplifies Your iPhone Without Batteries

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New Cheaper, Simpler Phonophone Amplifies Your iPhone Without Batteries

images credit Science + Sons Three years ago we showed the original Phonophone , which amplified your iPod without batteries. The science behind it was the same as those old record players with the big horn; Wikipedia explained that “Acoustic horns convert large pressure variations with a small displacement into a low pressure variation with a large displacement.” But the original Phonophone was large and expensive at $875. Now the designers contradict their own motto, “To put a song … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Federal Court Orders Destruction of Monsanto Crops

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Federal Court Orders Destruction of Monsanto Crops

Photo: Eat, Drink Better Everyone’s favorite uber-controversial, genetically modifying food corporation is in the news again, and this time, it’s because a federal judge has ordered the destruction of a prominent Monsanto crop. A ruling a few months ago found that the USDA didn’t conduct an extensive environmental review of Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” biotech sugar beets, an… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Papal Science Advisors Say World’s Poor Need GM Crops & Scientists Have Moral Duty to Develop Them

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Papal Science Advisors Say World’s Poor Need GM Crops & Scientists Have Moral Duty to Develop Them

photo: Luigi Guarino / Creative Commons The Vatican’s science advisors have come out in support of genetically modified crops , saying that they scientists have both the right and moral duty to produce them to help the world’s poor, Ne… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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