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America's Road To Energy Independence, Part 2

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The Energy Fix: Wind Power Blades Get Bigger, Turbines Get Smarter

Science A look at tomorrow’s turbines In 2012, wind power added more new electricity production in the U.S. than any other single source. But even with 60 gigawatts powering 15 million homes, wind...

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The Energy Fix: How Waste Could Power The U.S. For Decades

Science The world throws away enormous amounts of energy each day. In the U.S. alone, waste streams could account for 100,000 megawatts of untapped electrical capacity. New…

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The Energy Fix: Reinventing The Solar Array

Science Reinventing the array could usher in a new age for solar. The solar market has been on fire. In the U.S., it's grown by 600 percent over the past five years, culminating in 3,313 installed...

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The Energy Fix: How Geography Drives Energy Development

Science The importance of global landscapes Worldwide renewable energy production reached 66.83 quadrillion BTUs in 2010. The countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...

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The Energy Fix: Engineering Triumphs Over Wave And Tidal Forces

Science How water could be harnessed for roughly a third of U.S. annual electricity usage The Bottom Feeder Water is 800 times denser than air, and building a gen­erator able to withstand the...

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America's Road To Energy Independence, Part 3

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Searching For A Material To Make Solar Pants

Science A new crowd-sourced effort found 35,000 promising molecules that could make light, flexible solar power materials. Say you wanted to make a pair of pants that are also able to act as solar...

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Inside The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever

Science Many machines over the past 60 years have been billed as the one that will make the big breakthrough in fusion science, only to stumble. This one could be different. Some people have spent...

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America's Road To Energy Independence, Part 4

Science The final episode of our series on the clean technologies that will set us free

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