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The U.S. Energy Department Monday announced $10 million in funding to test wave energy prototypes in the waters off of Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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Lyft, the taxi-like service that provides rides through a smartphone app and uses part-time "community" drivers in their personal vehicles, defied state regulators when it expanded into Hampton Roads last week, according to correspondence released by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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On April 25, 1954, researchers from Bell Laboratories astonished reporters by hooking a hand-size silicon panel to a toy Ferris wheel, aiming a light at the contraption and making the wheel turn.
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The DWP hopes to smooth relations in rural eastern Sierra Nevada communities that are up in arms over the $680-million project, which would generate fewer than 10 permanent jobs and no property-tax revenue.
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By providing the public with an objective accounting of conditions in areas as small as a few thousand residents, Cal/EPA has created a powerful tool to spur regulators to act in highly polluted neighborhoods, state officials and environmental activists say.
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In India, a company called Protoprint aims to mobilize disadvantaged workers to gather and recycle waste plastic to produce filament yarn for 3D printers.
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Today, in many U.S. cities, an innovative, shared infrastructure is being erected, fueling a renaissance in how people live, work, and play.
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Supporters of Seattle's ride-service companies submitted more than 36,000 signatures to place a referendum on the November ballot to block new regulations that would have limited the number of cars they operate in the city.
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Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial.
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Yolo County has become the first county government in the state to not only zero-out its electric bill with renewable energy, but also to become grid positive.
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Research from the University of Virginia and the universities of Michigan and Washington is the foundation of a startup company, PsiKick, that plans to manufacture the lowest-power wireless sensors in the world.
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While such designs rarely make the leap from blueprint to reality, the do serve to inspire generations of architects and planners.
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When the owner of a small tech firm shared the discovery with utility security officials, the DHS advised power grid operators to upgrade their software.
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Proponents call it water recycling. Critics call it "toilet-to-tap." But as the drought has taken hold in California, opposition to the idea has been drying up, and recycled water is winning acceptance
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That's the year the U.S. will not have to import any more oil, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute highlights some of the progress that has resulted so far from the Better Buildings Initiative.
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The array of technologies and the staff time to make a home new zero is still out of reach for all but wealthy buyers.
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Swedish home goods giant Ikea Group is investing in its first wind farm in the U.S. that will produce enough energy to meet 18 percent of its electricity needs.
