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...joining hands with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide Internet solar maps of 25 American cities, using Google Earth technology to chart the precise solar potential of neighborhoods, literally rooftop by rooftop. The company has just finished mapping all of San Francisco, allowing residents to enter their address and take the solar measure of their own home. "People in San Francisco think we don't have any solar potential,' says Gavin Newsom, the city's deep-green mayor. "But the map shows we have a lot more sun than you'd believe...
...North Beach. CH2M Hill has already labeled all 925 existing solar systems throughout the city, including commercial sites, government sites and the handful of residential sites, which is nice if you're keeping track of these things. But the really cool part comes when you enter in an address - any address in San Francisco - into the website. The camera shifts to a rooftop view of the business or home, with data on the size of the roof, its estimated solar energy potential, the estimated electricity that could be produced and the utility bill savings, as well as the amount...
...steadily mapping the solar, wind and hydro power potential of the entire planet, with its REmapping the World initiative. Utilities and businesses can use the 3Tier website to prospect for the best locations for wind power projects, while ordinary citizens can check the rough solar potential of their home address. What kind of dividends this will pay in an energy hungry, globally warming world is hard to say, but if San Francisco is any indication, they could be big ones...
...night to finalize the details of the deal. The result does its best to impose order on what would otherwise be the disorderly bankruptcies of the two companies, but in many regards it just passes the buck to Obama. To be fair, Treasury had but a week to address an incredibly complex problem and come up with a multibillion-dollar aid package - no small achievement, however lacking in teeth. (Read "In the Nick of Time: Bush Announces Auto Bailout...
...Food and Drug Administration sought to address that problem, approving a new form of naltrexone in which tiny grains of the drug are coated in a biodegradable polymer. Inject a dose of this reformulated stuff, and the coating will dissolve slowly, releasing just enough drug for just enough time to keep you off the sauce for a full month. If one of those months is the holiday season, could the strategy save lives? The new study says that the answer...