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CEA rails on California's proposed TV energy standards, rings doomsday bell
Oh, brother — you had to see this coming, didn't you? Soon after details of the California Energy Commission's proposed TV efficiency standards leaked out, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has fired back a shocking press release in order to sound the alarm and get people in opposition. Acco……
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Artificial trees could function as solar-wind harvester
SolarBotanic is a company which researches and specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry — which seeks to mimic nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems. SolarBotanic is focusing on energy production, and, to that end, they’ve developed what they call Energy Harvesti……

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NYT: Google's PowerMeter to let users track electricity usage
The New York Times is reporting Google will announce a free web service tomorrow called PowerMeter that’ll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there’s a means to upload the data. That part of the equation’s gonna be up to other companies to create compatible de……

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The best of the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, so far
The Greener Gadgets Conference is coming up in a few weeks here, so we thought we’d bring you some highlights of the design competition it’s sponsoring. First up, Recompute is a fully sustainable design for a desktop computer — meaning that it makes use of low-impact manufacturing, uses fully recy……

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LightDrops umbrella classes up your act, generates electricity
The brainchild of designer Sang-Kyun Park, LightDrops is an umbrella that uses the piezoelectric effect of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) to transform falling rain into electricity, which is then used to light LEDs installed on the umbrella's underside. The heavier the rain falls (and the harder it hits ……
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Piezoelectrics could lead to voice-powered cellphones
Just imagine — yapping for hours on end to your dream lover could actually leave your cellphone with more juice than what it started with. This completely bizarre scenario could theoretically become a reality according to new research from a professor at Texas A&M University, and it's all thanks to t……
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VIVACE generates big power from small currents
These days people are looking everywhere to find new, cheap, and plentiful sources of electricity, and while you wouldn’t call it new, the ocean is certainly cheap and plentiful. Plentiful too are the people attempting to convert its motion into power by tapping its waves or extracting its heat. But what……

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Updated Energy Star spec goes into effect November 1
The new Energy Star 3.0 TV specification — this time including a test for how much electricity televisions use while turned on, not just while off — goes into effect next month. According to CNET's tests, the difference in power saved by more efficient (but not necessarily ideal PQ) default settings cou……
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Power-sipping Funai Dynamic ECD display don't need no backlight
Got OLED on the brain? What about FED? Holograms suit your fancy? Regardless of how you feel about the world's latest and greatest up-and-coming display technologies, we've got one more that you should probably keep an eye on. Funai has just announced the development of a swank new panel that consumes……
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Plasma Plant turns your old junk into electricity, which can then be used to create more junk
The transmutation of garbage into energy is a particularly modern form of alchemy. We’ve seen it done on a smaller scale in the past, but now a company called Geoplasma is assembling the country’s first plasma refuse plant in St. Lucie County, Florida. Scheduled to go online by 2011, the plant will p……

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