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1% of Australia’s Geothermal Energy = 26,0000 Years of Clean Electricity

Just when we thought there were no more new fandangled ways of deriving energy from our shriveling planet, Australia comes up trumps. Scientists there believe untapped geothermal energy locked in three miles below the Earth’s surface is a worthwhile and completely sustainable alternative to using fossil fuels.

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Could Old Computers Fuel Your Car?

image from eurleif It’s always been an environmental hazard to toss out an old computer: there’s arsenic and mercury, and a host of other nasty things in the circuit boards that the technology depends on.  Think of all that waste trickling into a landfill - not a terribly [...]

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Why Americans Are Driving 1M Mile Less a Day

Opinion piece: by Ben Ray Image from ^riza^ I’ve said it before, I’ve proved it, and I’ll say it again: the way to break an addiction to fossil fuel is to make it prohibitively expensive. Until that happens, very few people have the impetus to change their lifestyles significantly [...]

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Fill Your Car For $5

I imagine that our readers in the UK are giggling furiously at the American panic over gas prices this year as we finally begin to think about paying what those of you in the old world have been for years. It just looks like a place with cheap [...]

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