The Martin Next Generation Solar Center represents a breakthrough in solar-natural gas relations, or at least a way to make a brown fossil fuel plant a bit greener. Florida Power and Light (FPL), a utility already known for its advancements in wind, solar power and energy efficiency, is building the 75-megawatt concentrating solar thermal plant [...]

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Welcome to the suction cup era of solar lighting. Just last month, we discovered the PowerPlus Spider Solar Light that uses a triad of suction cups to stick to a south-facing window, providing solar-powered LED lighting at night. Turns out that was only the diminutive preamble, as this week we find the Saint Clair Lamp, [...]

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China has recently discovered major deposits of combustible ice on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. According to the researchers, this new source of low-emission fuel could power China for 90 years.

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