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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Colin Murray

Colin Murray

The 3 best solar panels for your home - 1 views

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    A consumers guide from MSN's Real Estate webpage. Options for home use in mind, MSN offers three categories of best in show. Most efficient, most innovative, and best bang for the buck have examples of photovoltaic solar panels.
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Solar Supported By Molten Salt Comes To Spain - 0 views

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    Americans are familiar with with utilizing solar energy to heat water filled tubes for domestic hot water. Spain has laid claim to the world's first molten salt solar energy plant. Nearly 3,000 mirrors track the Sun, reflecting its rays at a centralized tower. Said tower raises salt, an already bountiful resource in Spain, to a temperature high enough to melt it. Amazingly, salt withholds its temperature rather well, emitting heat for nearly 15 hours past liquefaction. This heat is utilized for energy production.
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Solar Updraft Towers Generate Mega Power - 0 views

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    An Australian company has proposed a massive non-polluting power plant in Arizona. Utilizing a technology first implemented in 1903, this project would include building the world's second tallest structure. In essence, it's a massive conical greenhouse, funneling its rising heated air through power producing turbines.
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National Geographic's take on Solar Energy. - 0 views

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    Solar Energy isn't just about soaking up the sun's rays to put power into a space or the grid. This article, albeit brief, gives a few examples of some interesting applications of our Sun's radiation.
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LED bulbs: The end of the lightbulb as we know it? - 0 views

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    Not only is it important to find and implement new sources of abundant and hopefully renewable energy sources, it's necessary to conserve what is being produced. Electricity for light has long been massively inefficient. Our incandescent lightbulbs are in essence the same technology Edison introduced. LEDs are the next wave of electrical lighting, improving in lumen output, spectrum of light, and probably most important for its success, cost.
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Recycling rubbish to create electricity in Denmark - 0 views

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    A really cool video of how Denmark, one of Scandinavia, and Europe's smallest countries is making the best of a trashy situation. On site visits give excellent insight into Denmark's power producing, rubbish incineration program.
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Panama canal upgrade and bubbles set to transform ships - 0 views

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    Look at recent transportation technology in the shipping field. Panama's Canal is expanding, resulting in a new generation of Post-Manamax sized shipping vessels. These ships are utilizing new technology to increase energy efficiency and long haul costs.
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NFL Opens First New York Pop Up at 1095 Avenue of the Americas - 0 views

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    A local example of another Midtown retail pop-usp store, this one has embraced and marketed its sustainable advantage. Although the existing commercial space didn't result in a LEED Commercial Interior rating (LEED CI), it did prove the ease of basic energy efficient upgrades. NFL's store implemented a cladding upgrade resulting in a $1 per square foot energy saving.
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Juicing up: Hong Kong transport goes electric - 0 views

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    BBC News presents a video on the expansion of Hong Kong's electrical vehicle movement. As one of the worlds densest urban population's, a proven implementation of successful electrical car program and infrastructure could prove replicable.
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Assessment of Sustainable Technology's Fundamental Elements. - 0 views

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    Itemized sponsored webpage shedding light on a few of the basic questions about green technology. Topics include explaination of green tech, hows it's used, alternate energy sources, and further growth. A highly technical example, with an excellent resource list.
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Renewables Help Jobs and Growth - 0 views

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    Article from the BBC News webpage discusses and identifies how renewable energy sources are helping Britain, and the United Kingdom. Covers new business in the field, job growth statistics, and public opinion.
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