I have been reading a brand new book by Brian Dumaine from Fortune and Time and other august establishments. It’s called The Plot to Save the Planet
My first response to reading this was “Wow!”
There are a lot of different organizations working from many different angles trying to come up with products ands methods to […]

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The internet is abuzz with reports that Apple may integrate solar cells into its portable devices by placing them underneath the layers of a touch-sensitive display. The New York Times writes that a patent called ‘Solar cells on portable devices’ was filed by employees.
Indeed, solar power would add new meaning to the word portable […]

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There have been many soldiers who have died and many others who have been physically and psychically injured. My thoughts always go out to them, on more days than this one.
But I want to remember some others who have died. Every coal miner buried under tons of rock. (Over 6,000 in China […]

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A group of Harvard students proposing a technology called Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) won one of the 16 awards in a competition to bring innovative lighting products to Africans without access to electricity. And do you know how much of the African continent goes without power? A staggering 74 per cent.
The results of the Development […]

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A Silicon Valley system designer and developer called SUNRGI has said that a new solar energy system will soon make it possible to produce electricity at a wholesale cost of 5-cents per kWh (kilowatt hour). This price is competitive with the wholesale cost of producing electricity using fossil fuels and a fraction of the current […]

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