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  Wood Heating
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  It really seems like a way to be green…using wood to heat your home. It’s a renewable resource. Fuels like coal, which provides the power for electric heat, natural gas, and oil are fossil fuels, which contribute to global warming. And they present other environmental concerns such as...

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  Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  In the not-too-distant past, light bulbs used to be, well, just light bulbs. They all seemed pretty much the same. Manufacturers tried, however, to make their particular brand stand out in one way or another from the competition, for instance by offering a softer, less harsh light. But...

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  Paris, The City of “Dimmed” Lights
  Topic by Saideh P Jamshidi

  Paris, "The City of Light", along with other French cities and villages will go dim or completely dark between 1 A.M. and 6 A.M. starting July 1, 2013. The decision was announced by the Francois Hollande government in the beginning of January of the same year. Paris is the world’s number...

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  Smart Grid: The Next Big Thing in Electricity?
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  The word smart has become attached to a number of objects, both everyday (the smart phone) and the specialized (the smart bomb). Over the past few years, the electricity that provides power to light our homes and run our appliances has also had that word added to it in the term smart grid...

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  Automakers Increasing Fuel Efficiency
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  The United States government hopes to greatly improve car fuel efficiency by 2025. By this time, they want automobiles to average 54.5 miles per gallon. The current average is 27.8 miles per gallon. Several car manufacturers, including Ford, General Motors and BMW have agreed to this...

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  The Future of America's Dependence on Oil
  Topic by Greg Carter

  America's thirst for oil appears insatiable. Energy analysts agree that world oil supplies are about to peak, after which there will be a steady decline in supplies of oil. Oil allows the economies of the most powerful nations to thrive by providing the energy needed by their revenue...

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  The Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima: The Aftermath
  Article by Charles F Barnaby

  The major Asian countries with civil nuclear programmes - China, India and South Korea – have, post-Fukushima, reaffi...

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  Green Burial the Best After-Death Option?
  Topic by Peter Haugen

  We all rot. Eventually. Even the cryogenically preserved will rot—maybe not until after the refrigeration unit fails, but it will happen. Even if some future Dr. Frankenstein finally finds a way to thaw out baseball legend Ted Williams's frozen head and put it atop a healthy body (maybe...