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...power utilities to remotely detect and respond to outages; that lets consumers program their appliances to use electricity when it's most abundant, allowing power companies to reduce waste; and through which new sources of alternative power could be channeled into the towns and cities that need it. (Read "Solar Power: Eco-Friendly or Environmental Blight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miami's Smart Grid: A Blueprint for the Power Future | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Solem also said that being environmentally friendly supersedes the desire to maximize profit, a viewpoint unique among the businesses owners contacted. The two establishments are looking into installing solar thermal panels to heat water, a technology that would require a 30-year payback period while needing replacement every 15 years. Though the solar thermal panels would not be cost-effective, Solem said that she will probably install them anyway in order to support the industry and promote their...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Stores Celebrate Earth Day | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Read about Spain's solar-powered graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hong Kong, Even the Dead Wait in Line | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...entirely possible that we'll never find any proof that life exists anywhere else in our limited little solar system. But courtesy of our own Antarctic, we now have one more piece of proof that it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Organism Survives Antarctica, and Maybe Mars | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard College Observatory, who offered the hypothesis in an interview with TG Daily, an online news source. Although many climatologists have cited increases in carbon dioxide as the primary cause of the temperature increases associated with global warming, Soon maintained that solar radiation from sunspots also has a great effect. “The sun is a great driving force to climate change,” Soon said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday, adding that most observed climate data could be explained by fluctuations in solar radiation. Sunspots—pockets...

Author: By Eric W. Baum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sunspots May Cause Climate Fluctuations | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

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