Hugo Chavez Sends Army to Change All Lights in Venezuela to CFLs

Due to a bad drought that’s dried up the hydroelectric plants that supply more than two-thirds of its power, Venezuela has been suffering through its worst energy crisis in the last 50 years. President Hugo Chavez’s solution

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A Roadmap For Taking On Coal Plant by Plant

photo via flickr Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country’s Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible. Nace, the man behind the indispensable Coalswarm , lays out the case for why coal has got to go and offers a roadmap for taking..

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The Ins & Outs of the Upcoming Energy & Climate Bill and Why It’s Stalled

Key senators, industry officials, senior advisers and cabinet members met yesterday with President Obama to talk about the upcoming Climate and Energy Bill . The bill has been largely put aside by Congress in favor of passing Healthcare legislation and yesterday’s meetings were an attempt by President Obama to get the bill moving. The talks highlighted the simple reason the bill is stalled: the Democrats are largely for a Climate and Energy bill and the majority of Republicans want to leave the “Climate” part out of it — mainly any kind of carbon capping or taxing legislation

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A Wearable Windmill to Generate Your Own Electricity

Flowers die, but the Dandelion portable windmill will keep on brightening your day without the wilting. A new wearable tech accessory from designers Mary Huang and Jennifer Kay, this beauty uses tiny windmills and turns the energy generated from the moving blades into LED light or plugable power for a small electronic device. The quirky design is also made from 99 percent reclaimed materials ! READ MORE AT ECOUTERRE > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “wind power” , Dandelion by Mary Huang and Jennifer Kay , eco-fashion , green fashion , human-powered clothing , portable windmill , Sustainable Fashion , wearable technology , wearable windmill

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The OOoo Chair Uses Zero Materials

We love seeing new furniture ideas that implement used, discarded, eco-friendly and recycled materials , but it’s not often that we find a chair that uses zero  materials in construction.

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READER TIP: Magtenlight Harvests Energy from Your Bike Wheels

The Magtenlight is a lighting system for your bike that uses a contact-less dynamo to generate the energy to illuminate your way at night. The system works by mounting a ring of 28 magnets on the spokes of your bike, which move past the dynamo generating an electric current.

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Pea Power: Researchers Discover a Hidden Energy Source Inside Peas

Peas are tasty, sure, but they might also play an important role in our energy future. Researchers from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Biochemistry have discovered that tiny crystals found in peas could one day be used as battery chargers or even as the core of efficient artificial solar cells.

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Energy-Saving Dynamically Tinted Glass Could Make Most Buildings More Efficient

Photo: SAGE Electrochromics SAGE Electrochromics Gets $100+ Million Another day, another announcement by the U.S.

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Time for Developers to Go Nuts on Energy Efficiency – Google Releases API for PowerMeter

Photo via Marcin Wichary Google’s PowerMeter tool is taking a bite out of the slow progress we’re making toward a smart grid by jumping over utilities that move at the speed-of-molasses and putting energy data in front of users right away, including creating an easy-to-use energy monitoring platform and partnering with home power monitor companies like The Energy Detective. They’ve just made another smart move to speed things along by opening up their application programming interface (API) so that developers can start creating tools to interface with PowerMeter. Now developers..

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Better Math Saves Lots of Energy

Energy savings of 99% over previous methods probably sound like snake oil. But some math geeks have been able to find a way so that computers can use only 1% of the energy (and the time) necessary for some tasks. IBM has announced a new data-processing algorithm that enables large sets of data to be processed in a fraction of the time, and with only a fraction of the electricity, as was previously needed.

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