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Video: Focusing the Sun for Cheaper Energy
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 | With fossil fuels pushing electricity costs ever higher, bringing solar power to the market is looking more attractive every day. This solar array in the Israeli desert is testing technology for solar plants under construction in California. (June 16) |
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Video: Is The Future Solar Power?
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Video: Signs First Solar May Burn Out
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 | First Solar told investors that its cells made of toxic Cadmium- Telluruid may be banned in the European Union. |
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Video: First-of-its-kind solar project planned for St. George
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 | St. George, Utah, is about to take advantage of the sun by building solar panels on a big scale, and every resident will be allowed to buy a piece of the St. George Solar Farm. |
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Video: Europe's greenest city? Kicking fossil fuel in Sweden
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 | A southern Swedish town has made large strides towards a future without oil. Most of Vaxjo is heated with biomass, the municipal sewage works produces biogas and car traffic is going green. The aim is to kick fossil fuel within two decades. |
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Video: Wallet Woes: Power Rates Are About To Go Up
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 | Baltimore gas and electric rates increase about 7.6%. |
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Video: Toyota Challenges Nissan in Lithium-Ion Battery Market
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 | 05/23/08 Toyota has formed a joint venture with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. to challenge Nissan/NEC Group by announcing that they too are building a plant to produce new lithium-ion batteries for future "green" cars. |
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Video: Solar powered A/C
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Video: Special Report: Solar Thermal Energy
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 | Concentrating Solar Power - Thirty Miles From Las Vegas, Power Plant Produces Enough Electricity to Light 14K Homes for a Year; Plant Represents $266 Million Wager by Acciona; Investors Include Google, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, FPL Energy, and PG&E |
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Video: Solar-powered Plane Readies for Flight.
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 | Solar-powered flight is a step closer to reality. A group of Swiss adventurers are hard at work on the Solar Impulse, a zero-emission airplane powered entirely by the sun. (May 22) |
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Video: Going Green: Helping The Environment
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 | Local church uses new solar power system to generate 18 percent of power. |
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Video: Navy Landfill to Become Solar Power Plant
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Video: Alternative Energy Sources at UC's Solar House
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 | Paula Toti takes a tour |
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Video: London's Greenest Hotel
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 | A chic London hotel has been named as the most environmentally friendly hotel in London |
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Video: Street Team '08: Solar Powered Sonics
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 | The people of Tucson took advantage of the ample sunshine, and organized the second annual Solar Rock festival. But how long can the state take the heat? Produced for MTV's Choose or Lose Street Team '08 at chooseorlose.com. |
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Video: Bloomberg: NYC to Install Solar Panels
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 | New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says there's no point in dwelling on the defeat of his congestion fee plan as he tells an environmental conference audience that the city will launch an initiative to install solar panels (April 9) |
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Video: Home Runs On Solar Power
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Video: South Africa power grid in crisis
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 | South Africa has been forced to impose power rationing in a bid to alleviate a crippling electricity crisis. For three months, beginning on March 31, residences and businesses which have been slow to respond to calls to voluntary reduce consumption will see their supplies cut by 10 percent. The goal is to avoid a complete blackout, but it's bad news for industry, and has forced the government to lower its growth forecast for the year. |
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Video: Solar manufacturer breaks ground in ABQ
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 | CONSTRUCTION ON A STATE-OF-THE-ART SOLAR MANUFACTURING FACILITY IS NOW UNDERWAY. SCHOTT SOLAR BROKE GROUND ON THE PROJECT THIS MORNING AT MESA DEL SOL JUST SOUTH OF ALBUQUERQUE'S SUNPORT. THE COMPANY SAYS ONCE IT HAS BUILT THE SITE -- IT WILL BRING UP TO 15-HUNDRED HIGH WAGE JOBS. IT WILL ALSO BRING MORE ALTERNATIVE CLEAN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT TO THE STATE. SOT its a great day for new mexico for albuquerque it means we have arrived, these are the kind of high wage jobs we want for the future. 16:05 THE SITE IS EXPECTED TO OPEN EARLY NEXT YEAR. WE HAVE INFORMATION POSTED ON OUR WEB SITE -- KOB-DOT-COM -- ON HOW YOU CAN APPLY FOR A JOB |
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Video: Florida Launches Probe of Power Blackout
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 | The Florida Public Service Commission has launched an investigation into the power outage that affected millions of people in South Florida on Tuesday. (Feb. 27) |
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Video: Big Solar Power Plant May Grace Desert
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Video: Can Shirt Fibers Produce Electricity?
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 | Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are working on fabrics that could produce enough electricity to power personal gadgets. (Feb. 13) |
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Video: Solar Powered Boat Compnay In CNY? 1/8/08
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 | A Developer from Canada is looking to move his solar powered electric boat company to Central New York in the upcoming months. It could mean serious business and serious jobs for our area. |
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Video: Solar Stocks: A "Very Dangerous Market" Right Now
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 | Analysis and Discussion with David Nelson of DC Nelson Asset Management: Solar Isn't Dead, But Valuations May Be Too High |
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Video: Living underground in Australia
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 | In the remote Australian desert town of White Cliffs, residents escape from the sweltering summer heat by living underground in "dug-outs". Not only are they pleasant to live in, with a steady temperature, they are also eco-friendly as residents save on power bills. |
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Video: Power On-the-go: Solar Backpack Charges Gadgets
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 | Voltaic Systems has unveiled their solar backback and briefcase, a device to charge laptops and other electronic gadgets. (Jan. 9) |
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Video: Europe Looks to Alternative Energy
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 | Concerns about climate change have led to increased interest in renewable energy sources, particularly the use of bio fuels. (Jan. 2) |
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Video: Google Expands Into Alternative Energy
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 | Google is expanding into alternative energy in its most ambitious effort yet to ease the environmental strain caused by the company's voracious appetite for power to run its massive computing centers. (Nov. 28) |
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Video: Powering up with the sun
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 | Twenty universities from Canada, Germany, Spain and the United States are competing here in the 2007 Solar Decathlon to design and build the most livable, energy-efficient solar-powered house. An AFPTV voiced report. |
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Video: Investing in Alternative Energy
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 | An interview with Walter Nasdeo of Ardour Capital concerns investing in alternative energy sources. |
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Video: Cyber Attacks Possible on U.S. Electrical Grid
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 | A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid. (Sept. 26) |
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Video: FOXe: Solar-Powered House
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