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Humans Choose Gadgets Over The Environment: Sad.

June 25, 2009

A study just dropped from the Shelton Group proving that people would far rather immerse themselves in a technologically-charged ignorance bliss than save the environment.
The survey asked 1,006 people how likely it’d be for them to give up their favorite gadgets if they found out it was harming the environment.  Not surprisingly, the results were [...]

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Spanish Style Solar Panels Show Elegance & Efficiency

June 22, 2009

SRS Energy just began manufacturing solar panels in the shape of Tuscan terracotta roofing tiles as you can see in the above picture.  Uni-Solar produces the amorphous silicon cells which are incredibly durable within a wide range of temperatures.  They even link seamlessly with tiles produced by US Tile.
These babies unfortunately will only generate a [...]

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Tesla Troubles Continue: Eberhard Sues Musk

June 11, 2009

The seemingly endless drama surrounding Tesla Motors ccontinues today with some fresh breaking news.  Co-founder, Martin Eberhard, who was kicked out of the company back in November 2007, by now CEO Elon Musk, is sueing Musk and Tesla Motors for slander, libel, and breach of contract.
Tesla spokesperson. Rachel Konrad had the following to say “This [...]

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Green Gadgets: Buy 5, Go 90% Off The Grid

June 10, 2009

Now I’m not saying that as time goes on, these kind of home-based energy systems won’t get much more efficient and cheaper, but for now, this really isn’t that bad.
EarthTronics is launching a new rooftop wind turbine that’ll be sold in ACE Hardware beginning this fall sometime.
The 2 kW turbine, produced by Honeywell, will cost [...]

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India Leaks Immense Solar Effort: 200GW by 2050

June 8, 2009

The Hindu, a mainstream Indian newspaper happened to come across some information that points towards a national solar power plan to have 200GW by the year 2050.
We’ve seen some pretty lofty plans thus far, but this one takes the cake considering India currently only has 3MW worth of installed solar capacity.
Also in the plan, it [...]

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