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USATODAY.com Money - Top Stories:
SolarCity lets clients lease a solar-power system instead of buying it, and save up to 15% a month on the combined electric and ...
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Image: Japan USEF, SSPS projectSpace Solar Power System Closer to RealityJapan's space agency, USEF, is in the news again with their plans to build a space solar power station, equivalent to a medium sized nuclear plant, by 2030. Inspired by hope that such a sci-fi vision becomes reality, we have some advice for the Japanes (Read More)
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New York Times:
Companies that make ultrathin solar panels using a toxic compound are watching nervously as the European Union considers expanding a ban on such materials in electrical components.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
• Firm wants to mine area first drilled 20 years ago• Fresh interest triggered by recent price surgeThe Scottish Highlands are famous for many things: ancient mountains, sparkling lochs, whisky and wildlife. But now a new and highly lucrative attraction has been found in the Highlands: gold.An Australian-funded mining compa (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Government to open new central authority in March to fast-track nuclear applications and avoid red tapeThe government will tomorrow identify further sites around Britain that could be suitable for building a nuclear plant, as part of a scheme to fast track a new generation of reactors.Ed Miliband, the energy and climate cha (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
A global tax on banking transactions would curb speculation and the proceeds could break the deadlock on Copenhagen climate talksThe response was predictable. No sooner had Gordon Brown expressed enthusiasm for a global transaction tax than the backlash began. Not something we like, said the Americans. We want lower not hig (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Is it possible to live without spending any cash whatsoever? After becoming disillusioned with consumer society, one man decided to give it a tryThe morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed. It was the same day news broke about the banks' misbehaviour in the sub-prime mortgage market, so whe (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
A new planning body that puts the national interest ahead of local concerns is welcome, but must be closely watched'I became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all the country looked alike," wrote Richard Jeffries at the start of his entrancing but rarely read novel After London. He was a Vict (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Supermarket chain announces plans to change freezer technology to avoid use of polluting F-gasesSainsbury's, Britain's third-biggest supermarket chain, will tomorrow announce plans to cut its carbon footprint by one-third by 2030, by changing its fridge technology.The retailer will stop using so-called F-gases, pumped throu (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
We look at the sacking of the government's chief drugs adviser David Nutt. It came a day after he claimed ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. We ask what role scientific advisers should play in politics. Read all our coverage of the Professor Nutt controversy. In the newsjam we discuss whether it's over for Co (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Sales of the folding bikes are up more than 25% this year as multicoloured options win younger converts - many of them womenThe Brompton bicycle company is having a fashion moment – well, at least it was until last month when Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, was snapped whooshing around London on his sleek black "fol (Read More)
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Los Angeles Times - Opinion:
A state rule requiring tinted windows is an example of regulatory overreaching. There's a law of diminishing returns for environmental regulation: As more specific rules are applied to ever-smaller details, the negative consequences can (Read More)
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washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns:
Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent prime minister, Gordon Brown, gives scary precision to the word "immediate." By his reckoning, humanity (Read More)
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Climate Change,
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The Age World Headlines:
Japan's space agency wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. (Read More)
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solar,
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www.guardian.co.uk:
A brilliant exposé of the oil industry uncovers the shocking human cost of fuel, says Peter PrestonPlunder, Rot, Fear, Greed and Desire. Laconic chapter headings tell the story. This brilliant, dismaying book by a reporter who delivers fact, analysis and eloquent anger with equal aplomb is designed to make you shudder the n (Read More)
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