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| No leader in energy efficiency, Department of Energy fails energy audit Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) appear to be ignoring their own energy-saving advice. The agency, which is authorized to spend $16.8 billion of the federal stimulus within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy alone, failed a recent inspector general energy efficienty audit, notes the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog today. [More] rss.sciam.com |
New Model Aims to Predict Quick Climate Changes Climate models of the past, present and future seem to be in no short supply these days. But a new and dynamic picture of climate change appears in this week's Science, one that could affect the way future conditions are predicted. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Death of the directory: When was the last time you opened a phone book? They can be used to press flowers--or as a booster seat, door stop or laptop desk. However, fewer and fewer phone books today are employed as originally intended--to look up telephone numbers. So why are they still regularly dropped at our doorsteps? [More] rss.sciam.com |
Is BPA Contaminating Your Soup? New research results show the controversial plastics additive bisphenol A , or BPA, is commonly found in a wide range of canned foods, including some marked "BPA free" or organic."The findings are noteworthy because they indicate the extent of potential exposure," said Urvashi Rangan at Consumers Union , which publishes Consumer Reports and released the results yesterday. [More] rss.sciam.com |
100 Percent Renewable?: One Danish Island Experiments with Clean Power [Slide Show] TRANEBJERG, Samso, Denmark--It can seem as if the icy, cutting wind off the North Sea never stops blowing on this Danish island in winter, bending back the grass, whipping straight the flags, and setting mammoth wind turbines to their stately spinning. That's good news for Samso's 4,000 or so inhabitants, seeing as they own shares in 20 of the 21 turbines that either tower over the island or rise from the offshore waters of the Kattegat Strait , which connects the Baltic and North seas.Some people see wind turbines as eyesores or complain about the sound of their whirring blades, but Soren Hermansen, chief proselytizer for the island's renewable energy experiment and director of the Samso Energy Academy , disagrees. "If you own a share in a wind turbine it looks better, it sounds better," he says. "It sounds like money in the bank." [More] rss.sciam.com |