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Google Officially Enters the Energy Market
In other words, Google-owned resources may soon be keeping your lights on.
Paying the Costs of Wind Power
Governors from eleven eastern states have written a letter protesting plans to charge their customers the cost of transmitting wind power from the Great Plains and Midwest to the East Coast. Who will pay for moving wind power is a hundred billion dollar question.
first in time… first in time? how groundwater can change the west’s water doctrine
The better water right is the younger groundwater permit.
Idaho State University team creates computer desktop to help researchers worldwide access hydrological data – “HydroDesktop”
Hydrological data – information about the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the United States – that may have formerly taken weeks to laboriously gather, will soon be available after a few mouse “clicks,” thanks in part to a computer desktop application being created by Idaho State University researchers.
Earth’s upper atmosphere collapses. Nobody knows why.
The thermosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads.
Solar wells displacing windmills on Western range
An increasing number of Western ranchers are pulling down their old windmills and converting to solar-powered systems.
Northwest aviation leaders aim to develop a regional biofuel industry
The first of its kind collaboration in the U.S. will assess the region’s biofuel plant matter availability, conversion technologies and potential for an economically sustainable supply chain.
General Electric, Venture Firms Unveil $200M Investment and Prize Program to Promote Smart Grid Technologies
“Were doubling down on our commitments and opening up to new ideas,” said Beth Comstock, GE’s chief marketing officer, at the event. “The challenge now is how to move faster…but GE can only do so much. We have to work together to collectively put our imaginations to work.”
Giant Greenland Glacier Cracks Open Overnight – The Arctic’s biggest iceberg factory just hit overdrive.
"A few nights ago a crack opened up," said Tom Wagner, cryospheric program scientist at NASA. "Two nights later (July 6) the whole (gosh darned) thing breaks off and flows away." The lost portion has been described as about an eighth the size of Manhattan Island and set a new record for the retreat of that glacier.
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