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NeilBlanchard

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Can Japan Thrive without Nuclear Power?

@arpad  @dkohn Scotland will be 100% renewable by 2020 or so.  Costa Rica is near 100% now.  Brazil is well on their way.  Iceland is doing pretty... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 26, 2012 at 8:22 PM EDT

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Hydrogen Storage Could Be Key to Germany's Energy Plans

The Germans have a hydro plant with an elevated reservoir that they use to store power by pumping water up to the reservoir, and letting it back... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 3, 2012 at 10:13 PM EDT

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A Rising Sun for Renewable Energy

Japan has many renewable energy sources: wave power is quite consistent and there are (at least) three companies around the world that manufacture... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM EDT

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Mobile-Ad Firms Seek New Ways to Track You

Lecherous advertising is symptomatic of a declining economy.  Like seeing *more* ads is going to make us buy more?!  Along with predatory lenders... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:01 PM EDT

How Much U.S. Shale Gas Is There, Really?

Gas is finite, renewables are virtually infinite Why does it seem like we are trying to use up these limited resources as fast as we can? The sun... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 3, 2011 at 11:43 PM EDT

Harvesting Power from the Ocean

This has been done better... Greetings, I remember hearing about a company that already has this sort of power generation in production. Theirs... (read full comment)  

Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:26 PM EST

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