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It’s hard to find a spare tire in Cuba these days, or a cup of yoghurt.
Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and...
made popular Jul 31 2009
This blog features 10 basic things that one can to do to contribute towards the long journey of saving the earth. Besides being green it is cost effective way of...
made popular May 9 2009
State owned power company Meridian Energy is raising its prices by an average of 6.5 per cent across New Zealand, with higher increases in Canterbury and Dunedin. This...
made popular Feb 11 2009
Al Gore is still enough of a celebrity that I still bother to care that he met with Obama and Biden. The topic of the discussion was obviously energy and climate...
made popular Dec 10 2008
Calories don’t equal energy! Both have a different definition and play varied roles in our health and nutrition.
Read the complete story here Are Calories same as...
made popular Nov 26 2008
Age Concern, an advocacy group for the elderly, is attempting to highlight the issue of ‘energy poverty’ before the (southern hemisphere) winter brings a...
made popular Nov 20 2008
When the human body kicks into high gear, the brain can run on recycled, alternative energy to make the whole system more efficient, scientists have discovered.
made popular Oct 3 2008
Since this week began, militants in the Oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria have started blowing up oil installations in the region in a campaign tagged the...
made popular Sep 19 2008
North Carolina State University has just been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create the National Research Center for Future Renewable Energy...
made popular Sep 11 2008
John McCain stood atop an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and proclaimed that he had the key to solving America’s energy woes, slashing the price of gas,...
made popular Aug 21 2008
What this space: Africa is fast becoming an important player in cleaner energy sources. If only 0.3% of sunlight falling on the Sahara and Middle Eastern deserts can...
made popular Aug 16 2008
Whats that? Youd really like to watch a video in which Paris Hilton talks about US energy policy?
made popular Aug 7 2008
After Obama told a group in Michigan that American’s could save energy by getting regular tune ups and making sure their tires were properly filled with air,...
made popular Aug 7 2008
A US scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for home owners to store solar energy and produce electricity to run lights...
made popular Aug 2 2008
A small town in Missouri known as Rock Port has become the first community in the U.S. to operate completely on wind power.
made popular Jul 23 2008
Here’s a great cartoon that shows how politicians might actually help out the environment in the future
made popular Jul 22 2008
Gasoline prices have skyrocketed over the past few months. Economically, the escalation in gasoline prices is because it takes oil to make gasoline. The cost of...
made popular Jul 21 2008
This year, the world and, in particular, developing countries and the poor have been hit by both food and energy crises. As a consequence, prices for many staple foods...
made popular Jul 16 2008
The quest for a way to artificially recreate photosynthesis may be a step closer, thanks to a breakthrough by a team of Chinese researchers, who are investigating the...
made popular Jul 14 2008
Clearly transportation costs will continue to spiral causing major problems for Many people - it is about to be life changing.
made popular Jul 11 2008
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“Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one’s allotted portion of the...
made popular Oct 5 2009
The Aim of the previous Govt. was : Every village to be provided electricity; remaining 1,25,000 villages to be covered by 2009; 2.3 crore below poverty- line...
made popular Sep 29 2009
KOLKATA:
I leave my home 8:00am regularly for office (weekdays). After checking my mobile and handkerchief are with me, first thing I notice all street lights are still...
made popular Aug 19 2009
To the visitor it may seem picturesque. But when you’ve spent several hours a day for 20 years vigorously shaking a dead goat’s stomach filled with milk to...
made popular Jul 27 2009
An important measure has been ordered by the Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power, on Wednesday January 12th, i.e. directing the concerned authorities to...
made popular Jan 27 2009
Power companies are under increasing pressure to pass on the benefit of the plummeting price of oil.
Watchdogs are angry that domestic energy bills have continued to...
made popular Dec 6 2008
Recently identified electrical activity on Saturn’s largest moon bolsters arguments that Titan is the kind of place that could harbor life.At a brisk -350 degrees...
made popular Oct 29 2008
Rhode Island took a step toward reaching its goal of providing 15% of its electricity from wind power, when it awarded Deepwater Wind the contract to build a $1 billion...
made popular Oct 2 2008
An Oxford electrical engineer has come up with a refrigerator that runs without electricity. Not his own idea. He has based it on a model invented by Albert Einstein in...
made popular Sep 22 2008
Come summer and India is reeling under power cuts. As mercury is rising, anger is rising among common Indians who are forced to stay without electricity for hours....
made popular Sep 15 2008
Tamilnadu is down in its power resources.
I mean electricity. The ruling DMK government has no positive hopes for the people of its state regarding this power problem....
made popular Sep 13 2008
The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is increasing the load shedding hours substantially beginning Tuesday.
According to a report in Kantipur daily, due to closure of...
made popular Sep 11 2008
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has enforced new load shedding schedule effective from Wednesday.
According to new schedule, NEA will cut up the electricity 16.5 hrs...
made popular Aug 28 2008
In Nigeria today, one thing like no other is certain: Never Expect Power Always. Some have called those four words the most appropriate acronymn for the nation’s...
made popular Aug 18 2008
Climbing up the stairs would do more than just exercise and tone up your body. Two Chennai based dctors have claimed that electrcity can be made as one climbs up the...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Most drivers can’t imagine not having to change the oil in their cars or worry about spark plugs or catalytic converters, or most of all, filling up their tanks with...
made popular Aug 8 2008
Great news on the power efficiency front: Scientists have invented a new material that can efficiently convert heat waste in cars, power generators, and heat pumps into...
made popular Jul 28 2008
elected areas of Asian cities including Taipei, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul plan to turn off their lights for one hour later Saturday to promote energy...
made popular Jun 28 2008
THE answer to Zambia’s electricity crisis does not seem to be anywhere near.
I have followed with glee, how desperately the management of the local power utility firm...
made popular May 12 2008
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Bangladeshi workers clean the glass of oil lamps at a workshop even as the country faces shortage of power supply, in Keranigonj, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Bangladesh authorities shut down operation and production of the...
