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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste. There are 2.6

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Exxon/Mobil To Fund Solar Financing Bond For Torrance Homeowners

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The loans for solar power, authorized under California’s AB 811 , are added as assessments to a homeowner’s property tax bills and are passed on to the new owner if a home is sold. 3. Water Conservation. 4. Waste & Recycling. It’s a pretty good idea isn’t it? Here’s my proposal for.

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NSF awards $2M to U-Mich for algal biofuel work; looking to algal communities to enhance yield

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The main goal is to test the idea that certain naturally diverse groups of algae have complementary traits that enhance the efficiency and stability of biofuel yield beyond what any single species can do alone. Savage’s team also will compare the ability of single and multispecies systems to reuse and recycle wastes for additional growth.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

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A beaming Alison Diaz, ECHS’ Founder and Executive Director was at the center of it all on the campus that started as an idea in her head and then in a church basement in 1999. California State Assemblyman, Steve Bradford of the 51st District (left) with Lawndale City Councilman, Jim Osborne. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. As Zadeh was pretty much entrenched at Columbia, he surprised his colleagues when he packed up in 1959 and moved to the University of California at Berkeley.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

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Charged : As we discussed last time, the Trump administration tried to water down the federal regulations. The environmental groups, the states, California challenged them. Can you give us an idea of how that’s likely to be structured and how long it’s going to take before we hear more details? Margo Oge: Exactly.

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