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Home Depot Winterizing Tips
October marks Fire Prevention Month and although there may not be an official month for 'winterizing' your house it’s also a good time to be thinking about getting your home ready for winter and keeping costs down. Both fire-proofing and winter-...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Home Depot, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics
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Remodeled Caltech lab turned green
Caltech students and professors looking to create green energy now have a sustainable central hub. Over the past 18 months workers gutted the 1971 Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory and renovated it into a modern glass building to house the Resnick...
Tags: Science, Energy Saving, Southern California Edison Company, Computer Science, Energy
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U.S. Senate candidates square off in Shepherdstown
matthew.umstead@herald-mail.comJoe Manchin had help rebuffing repeated assertions Tuesday night by Republican John Raese that West Virginia’s junior Democratic senator was on the wrong political team in Washington. Mountain Party candidate Bob Henry Baber said Raese’s...Tags: Environmental Cleanup, Politics, Environmental Issues, Elections, Government
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Researcher aims to take guesswork out of utilities' storm preparations
If a hurricane threatens to barrel up the Chesapeake Bay in the next month, many Marylanders will watch the forecast with dread. Memories of spending days without power after Hurricane Irene and the June derecho are fresh and painful.
Utilities such as...Tags: Natural Disasters, New York City, Johns Hopkins University, Science and Technology, Hurricanes
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Purdue University awarded $5M for biofuel research
Purdue University is helping develop a new form of biofuel. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $5 million to a team of researchers Wednesday. The researchers are working to develop a plant that could produce a substance that can directly be used as...
Tags: Biofuels, Environmental Issues, Purdue University, Renewable Energy
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Why Higher Prices Are The New Normal
It’s a presidential election year, which means we’re hearing politicians talk about “the new normal” whenever the topic of the economy or political gridlock comes up. But there’s also a new normal in the automotive arena....Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Prices, Passenger Cars, Services and Shopping, Vehicles
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Energy-saving LED street lights could be headed our way
Q: Aug. 1 marked the five-year anniversary of the fatal collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minnesota. That bridge has been replaced with an improved design that is not 'fracture critical' and is considered to be a 'smart' bridge featuring 26 accelerometers...Tags: Energy Saving, Physiology, Travel, Environmental Issues, Global Warming
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UCSD gets $500K for magnetism project
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- UC San Diego was awarded more than $500,000 Friday for a three-year project to develop and deploy an electromagnetic system in an effort to access more natural gas for energy use. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy is part...
Tags: Energy Resources, University of California, San Diego
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Green-certified homes sell for 9% more, study in California finds
WASHINGTON — It has been a controversial question in the home real estate market for years: Is there extra green when you buy green? Do houses with lots of energy-saving and sustainability features sell for more than houses without them? If so, by...Tags: Energy Saving, Homes, Services and Shopping, Politics, Environmental Issues
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More wells approved for geothermal plant
Staff WriterHeber’s geothermal plant is expected to get four more wells as the Imperial County Planning Commission approved amending the plant’s permit Wednesday. The plant, owned by Ormat, was built in the 1980s and currently has its wells inside the...Tags: Energy Resources, Plant Openings
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Scientists May Have Found 'God Particle'
CNNScientists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new particle whose characteristics match those of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in physics, which could help unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets. "We have reached a...Tags: Science, Higgs Boson Search, CNN (tv network), Geneva (Swiss Confederation), Batavia
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UCF-based business needs “likes” to win energy contest
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelA company founded at UCF needs votes from the public to win a contest put on by the U.S. Department of Energy. The company, Mesdi Systems, founded by Brandon Lojewski, is one of six finalists from more than 300 universities that competed in the National...
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