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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center

Baua Electric

The plant has two General Electric boiling water reactors within a Mark II containment building that are licensed through 2042 and 2044. Read more: Should the US convert coal plant sites to nuclear? The 1,075-acre Susquehanna Steam Electric Station is the sixth-largest nuclear power plant in the US. Get started here. –

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Study suggests city center pollution doubles risk of calcium build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

We tend to take for granted that governments will ensure that our air and water is clean and will not adversely impact our health. The developed world has moved on a long way from the problems of industrial smog and domestic coal-burning of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, to the point where our urban air now looks clean and healthy.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. So the last thing we need is for the oil that currently sits safely untapped under local waters and under the town itself to be drilled into, sucked out, and trucked through the South Bay.

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The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

Cars That Think

A catalytic converter , for example, uses palladium, rhodium, and platinum to convert pollutants like carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide into water and carbon dioxide. We have various electronic communication networks (the autocatalytic system) and some early personal computers (the catalyst).

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Secrets of a Danish Castle

Baua Electric

Kjaer runs her Asian tea company, Sing Tehus , from a rented wing of the castle, offering tea ceremonies and yoga retreats while maintaining Gjorslev’s status as the oldest continuously inhabited building in Scandinavia. Some of my childhood neighbors had never even been to Copenhagen, an hour’s drive away. He pondered for a while.

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ExxonMobil Outlook: 35% growth in energy demand by 2040; hybrids to account for ~50% of new vehicle sales

Green Car Congress

ExxonMobil expects that by 2030, China will have surpassed the United States as the country with the largest number of personal vehicles, even though China’s vehicles per capita will be about one-third the level of the United States at that time. However, by 2040, China and India are expected to increase their levels by more than 500%.

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