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As Our Climate Warms, is Personal Cooling in our Future?

As the climate warms over the next decades, energy needed for cooling developing nations would far outstrip current air conditioner use in the US. The need to cool people in the rapidly growing megacities in India, Southeast Asia and other… Read More

Novel Energy Storage Leverages Free Gravity

Gravity already supplies us with one cheap and clean form of electricity storage. We can contain and then release a weight — in this case water, with pumped hydro. When there is excess energy on the grid that no one… Read More

Bringing Décor to Life with Photosynthetic Furniture

Say goodbye to the houseplants you keep forgetting to water, and embrace a new trend: decorative, functional microorganisms. Innovations in industrial and architectural design might soon bring photosynthesis into your home in a completely new way – by building algae… Read More

White House Initiative Brings More Solar Power to Low-Income Communities

Lower income Americans pay more for energy as a percentage of their total income than more affluent residents, but they’re generally in a bad position to implement renewable, long-term cost-saving solutions. This week, the Obama administration announced a new energy… Read More

Akon’s ‘Solar Academy’ Aims to Light Up Africa

There are some who argue that Africa needs fossil-fuel-generated power in order to boost standards of living and end the deprivation that afflicts too many. Just can’t do without it. But Akon is taking a different approach in rural areas… Read More

Could Controlled-Fusion Usher in a New Era of Clean Energy?

Today six governments are involved in the planning and construction of what could be called “the largest international scientific undertaking in history”. Their purpose: to usher in a new era of clean, abundant energy. University of Washington scientists may be… Read More

Revenge of the Bacteria

Dear EarthTalk: How is it that antibiotics are being “overused,” as I’ve read, and what are the potential consequences? — Mitchell Chase, Hartford, CT The development and widespread adoption of so-called “antibiotics”—drugs that kill bacteria and thereby reduce infection—has helped… Read More

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As Our Climate Warms, is Personal Cooling in our Future?

Novel Energy Storage Leverages Free Gravity

Bringing Décor to Life with Photosynthetic Furniture

White House Initiative Brings More Solar Power to Low-Income Communities

Akon’s ‘Solar Academy’ Aims to Light Up Africa

Could Controlled-Fusion Usher in a New Era of Clean Energy?

Revenge of the Bacteria

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