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Advertising: SUVasaurus commercial
Great advertising but we would be more impressed if this would be a marketing campaign for a Hybrid or Plug-in version of that car. Maybe next year.
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Internet warfare: All Georgia Government web sites down
About a month ago the website of Georgia’s President was under a distributed denial of service attack and offline for some time. Based on forensic analysis it became clear that the root of these attacks were to be found in Russia.
Now with a state of war declared as it seems all official Government web sites of Georgia are not responding, not reachable or do not display any content…
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USA: Largest Wind Energy project approved
With prices of oil and natural gas skyrocketing, Texas, home to some of the largest US petroleum industry conglomerates, is already planning ahead of current boom times for a future that could turn this state into one of the World’s biggest producers of alternative energy.
Following Oil Billonaire T. Boone Pickens’ declaration of “going green” and his initial purchase of about 670 MW wind turbines from GE earlier this year, regulators have now (preliminary) approved a plan to invest about USD 5 Billion into the electrical grid infrastructure connecting new alternative / wind energy projects in the wind-rich West and the Panhandle to the urban areas of Texas.
According to the approved plan…
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Climate Change: Greenpeace EfficienCity
The UK branch of Greenpeace has put a model of an ideal city of the future online. The virtual town called “EfficienCity” shows with animations, videos and lots of information how a climate friendly city might look like. It generates its own energy decentralized from local renewable resources vs. receiving it from a centralized grid of nuclear or coal power plants. Greenpeace uses this Sim-City of Energy to demonstrate a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions, towards a more secure energy supply, cheaper electricity and heating bills and a whole new attitude towards energy…
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Clean Energy: Solar Systems is building world biggest solar power station
Australian company Solar Systems today announced that it is going to build the biggest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power station in the world in north-west Victoria, Australia. The power station is estimated to provide 154 MW into the national electricity grid – enough to meet the annual consumption of over 45,000 homes. Australian Treasurer [...]
Clean Energy: HiPER a future energy source?
After two years intensive work involving over 1000 top-level scientists, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has published on Thursday 19 October the roadmap outlining 35 opportunities for major science facilities over the next 20 years. The HiPER laser project has been included in the list as a key opportunity to demonstrate a [...]
