In The New York Times on Wednesday, I wrote about Bloom Energy, the once-secretive Silicon Valley start-up that has apparently made a big breakthrough in developing a fuel cell that can generate electricity at competitive prices while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. The company is officially unveiling its Bloom Energy Server at a news conference...
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Environment
A Secretive Start-Up Raises the Curtain
Scientists discover giant plastic rubbish patch in North Atlantic
Scientists have found a giant floating rubbish tip in the North Atlantic Ocean made up of thousands of pieces of plastic. The large dump is north of the Caribbean and made up of tens of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. It is said to be a similar size to the ‘great Pacific garbage...
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You Are About To Get Hit By A “PARALYZING BLIZZARD”
The same storm that brought a gentle snowfall across Texas on Tuesday will reach the Northeast in the form of an atmospheric monster with damaging winds, blinding snow, torrential rain, huge waves and flooding. In the hardest-hit areas, it will seem more like a “snowacane,” as a mere blizzard may not adequately describe conditions...
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Back-to-back severe storms headed for Northeast
After being spared the brunt of early February snowstorms that buried the Atlantic coast, the Northeast is bracing for a double whammy of winter. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning Tuesday evening for central New York through New England. It predicts heavy, wet snow with 6 to 20 inches accumulating by...
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The Top 10 States for Wind Power
Good news on the wind energy front: new statistics from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) show that previous estimates of U.S. wind power resources actually underestimated the amount of energy available. The new statistics estimate that onshore wind power could generate 37,000,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) each year–nine times the amount of energy required to...
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Waterfront Resort Hotel Extends Into the Ocean to Protect the Coastline
Waterfront resorts are great–except when they erode the local coastline. The Waterfront Resort Hotel, designed by U:phoria for the port city of Da Nang, Vietnam, juts out into the ocean instead of hanging back along the coastline in an attempt to avoid the problem.
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U.S. Offers Solar Project a Crucial Loan Guarantee
The United States Department of Energy offered a $1.37 billion loan guarantee on Monday to a California company planning to build a large-scale solar power plant in the Southern California desert A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line
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Healing the Great Lakes
The Obama administration on Sunday unveiled an ambitious plan to rescue and repair the Great Lakes after a century of environmental neglect and abuse. The plan calls for spending more than $2 billion over five years on a wide range of restoration programs carried out by federal agencies, state and local governments and tribal...
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In western Wyoming, gas industry faces crossroads
But the future of the natural gas industry in the Pinedale, Wyo., area — scene of a decade of intense drilling into two of the nation’s richest gas fields — has become less certain because of the recession and the Obama administration’s intention to make some unspecified changes to Bush-era drilling policies. Environmentalists have...
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Intern suggest recycling campaign for Woonsocket
With the city’s solid waste managers under pressure to improve recycling rates, a student at Johnson & Wales University has left them with some food for thought on the subject. No, Ndiale Gueye is not enrolled in J&W’s esteemed culinary arts program, she’s a senior with a major in network engineering — something you...
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