Case in point: cold fusion, as well as other screwball free-energy schemes funded by corporations or governments.
The last time we heard from Steorn, the company had just joined a long line of optimistic but doomed people and companies unable to actually demo free-energy tech when put the test -- and although the Orbo didn't actually do anything, CEO Sean McCarthy promised us that we'd eventually get a working demo with physical access to the device.
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Shale gas is also likely to divert investment in Britain from pricier but carbon-free nuclear and renewable-energy sources.
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In the effort to mitigate carbon emissions and climate change, sources of carbon-free renewable energy are sought, particularly wind power.
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It is seen, therefore, as a bridge fuel, one that takes us from coal and oil to some mix of carbon-free energy in the future.
The need to develop carbon-free energy sources is greater than ever, and Germany is leading the charge, breaking all previous solar installation records in 2012.
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In the daytime, when the sun is at its strongest, solar panels like these and electricity stored in car batteries will be able to power the grid with affordable, emission-free energy.
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Not everyone is convinced that wind-power is the most reliant route to clean, renewable carbon-free energy, and it is concerning that Britain is relying on a power source that must be backed up by more constant technologies such as nuclear, coal, or gas, because the wind blows inconsistently, as is its nature.
In other green tech and design news, Hitachi unveiled an impressive new wireless controlled robot to help with the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup and London-based designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves developed the GravityLight, an amazing low-energy, battery-free light that works by harnessing the power of weight and gravity.
As a result, Park says, prominent scientists won't even bother taking the effort to debunk so-called free energy devices.
Democratic leaders blocked such a vote arguing such an approach could hurt the environment as well as delay a transition to carbon-free, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy.
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The FCC has rules about the former, requiring that those paid to give endorsements disclose that fact (including mommy bloggers who get free bottles to review and exercise bloggers who get hooked up with free energy bars from attention-craved companies).
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Just as America's adoption of catalytic converters led eventually to the world's conversion to lead-free petrol, so its drive to clean-energy technologies will ensure that these too spread.
The government announced that the city would be zero-carbon, powered entirely by renewable energy, car-free, and produce net-zero waste.
The turbines provide emission-free and environmentally safe energy generation.
Nukes may not be quite as clean as wind, solar or geothermal, but they provide a carbon-free and domestic source of energy that produces lots of jobs.
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The whole Guardian Cross package is governed by an energy system common in free-to-play social games.
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From the private sector, Steve Corneli, senior vice president for sustainability, strategy and policy for NRG Energy, attempted to blend free-market principles with an unquestioning belief in claims by climate-change advocates that have yet to be backed up with conclusive proof.
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This system amounts to what is essentially the energy system commonly found in free-to-play titles and has no place in a paid title, especially one in which the player is forking up a total of around 50 dollars to unlock everything (including initial app price).
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Much of the damage looks like the result of oxidation by free radicals (oxygen-rich compounds released during cellular energy production).
Normally, an incoming electron would have a good chance of displacing one of these low-energy incumbents, but unlike the free electrons in metals, which are usually singletons, those in a superconductor tend to wander around in pairs.
Point number two: The best way for us to unleash the free market -- the best way for us to unleash the free market and capitalism and innovation and dynamism in the energy sector is for us to fully take into account all the costs that go into producing energy and using energy.
The brilliant trend-setter was Dave MacKay's free book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air.
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This means that all of the waste generated by each of these landfill-free facilities is recycled, reused or turned into energy.
So Greenpeace laid out the stairway to a coal-free iCloud, stressing that Apple should not rely on Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs, purchased from clean energy producers far from its data farms to green up its operations.
Larry Makovich of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an industry consultancy, is a free-marketeer by training and an advocate of deregulation.
With this project she will develop a new label-free biomolecular detection method, based on a technique called Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer (PRET), to monitor biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.
Nonetheless, in recent years America has come to resemble much more closely that brightly lit, fume-free city on a hill that policy wonks dream about, where energy is cheap, clean and reliable (if you consider self-sufficiency a proxy for reliability).
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