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Google's World-Saving Clean Energy Plan Costs $4.4 Trillion, Dramatically Shrinks Google's Power Bill

Google, who in aggregate, effectively knows everything, unsurprisingly has a solution for our energy problems. The plan, called Clean Energy 2030 will cost $4.4 trillion over its 22-year span, if we start on it right now. Google says it'll give us back a net of $1 trillion, like half of which will be savings on Google's massive power bill notes the former Fake Steve. More »

1:15 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By matt buchanan
9,058 views, 55 comments

Latest by johnnyabnormal: @Rabid Penguin: Hahaha... more »

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Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations

It's one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It's something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind turbine out of scrap parts that could revolutionize personal power in developing nations, especially if you're in college. Max Robinson has done just that, designing a turbine out of spare parts that costs less than $40 to build out of readily available parts and can power a home's lighting for up to two and a half days or a radio for over a day. No word on how long an OLPC would last. [Daily Mail]

12:20 AM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Matt Hickey
13,552 views, 43 comments

Latest by tabaks: @johnnyabnormal: Peak oil, of course. 8^) more »

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Solar Ships May Carry Passengers in San Francisco as Early as 2009

The concept of solar ships is nothing new, but it appears that Austraila's Solarsailor may be on the brink of bringing the technology to the mainstream. Hornblower Yachts in San Francisco is in the midst of negotiations with the Coast Guard to install a Solarsailor sail on one of their commercial ferryboats. If all goes well, the boat will be operational in 2009. Solarsalor has also won contracts in Shanghai and Hong Kong for similar vessels. More »

8:40 PM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Sean Fallon
4,493 views, 14 comments

Latest by Vagabum: Great call by whomever decided to harness solar power in a city known for being covered in fog for most more »

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Wind Shade Roof Keeps You Cool, Friendly With Al Gore

The Wind Shade Roof is basically a large roof (surprise) decked out with an arsenal of wind turbines that perform the combo power of providing shade and electricity to whatever's below or around it. More »

4:25 PM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Matt Buchanan
6,776 views, 17 comments

Latest by ideaman2020: @mbodey: People that lives in LA or Vegas usually are near buildings, not a bare desert. If I were in a more »