Point Source Power, a project out of Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, has created a dung-powered fuel cell for emerging markets.
Personally, I just think that solar makes the most sense as an energy technology, and the tech innovations in solar power are such that I expect it to be the most common source of power before the century is out.
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Autonomous control over supply, via aggregation in unions, became their only source of power.
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.
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It did indeed prove to be a lasting source of power, but not of unity.
In India, China, Africa and the Middle East, solar should soon be a significant source of power.
Or they can transport heat from an external source of power and manipulate it to cool a surface.
In medieval Europe, the marketplace became a source of power that allowed people to challenge the ruling monarchs.
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The government sees hydroelectric dams as an alternative, non-polluting source of power generation.
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Mr Bush has received praise for being willing to take on discretionary spending, the main source of power for Congress.
In trying to provide a better source of power to those big telecom companies, OMC Power made an accidental discovery.
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How about blankets and a heat source if power goes out?
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Because the kilowatt-hours used by cars ultimately come from some carbon-based source (power plant or otherwise), the calculation converts kilowatt-hours to equivalent gallons of gasoline consumed.
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The current demonstration implements a tethered solution as the robot's source of power, pumps, gasses and liquids, but future developments may allow for a self-contained system.
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Ambient radio waves have largely been ignored as a potential power source until recently, because the power of a broadcast radio signal rapidly decreases with distance.
Dr Wilkinson, whose work is funded by the Tampa Electric Company, said that vegetation was likely to prove a useful source of power for many robots.
But the UK government is heavily dependent on wind energy more than any other renewable source of power, to provide 15% of its green energy by 2020.
But if it can be cost-effectively achieved and subsequently replicated, the projects would provide a refreshing new source of power to residents along the East Coast, and elsewhere.
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Now all 14 of its 'berths' - areas of sea connected by cable to the shore - are booked, a sign of growing interest in this fledgling source of power.
It ran at 90% of capacity in 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration, and Central Vermont Public Service says it's the most reliable source of power the utility has access to.
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"We have come to rely on mobile machines and devices that always need a source of power whether it be the grid, batteries, or fuel, " said Chris Norris, president and CEO of Alta Devices.
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Without this unseen source of power a woman may have the desire and ideas to be wildly successful, but if she does not have confidence or the courage to act, she will not be successful.
The category includes petroleum, natural gas liquids, ethanol, biodiesel, coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids, and as you can see, the gap narrows between liquids and coal, but coal remains the second energy source to power the world.
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Such solutions are clearly some way off commercial development, but with Apple rumored to be designing its hotly-anticipated iWatch around a power source based on kinetic and solar power, a battery-free world isn't such a distant dream.
Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.
At the same time Yury Boiko, the Ukrainian energy minister, has high hopes that shale gas -- formed deep underground within large shale rock formations -- could also be a major alternative source of power in the decades to come.
However, standing in one of the country's 30 solar plants -- overlooked by sand dunes on all sides, Dawoud tells CNN that he hopes that solar technology may eventually offer a viable alternative energy source to power the UAE's huge desalination needs.
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