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World's oil reserves might be much larger than estimated
By: William Atkins

According to British oil expert Richard Pike, the amount of oil still to be pumped out of the Earth could be well underestimated by the oil companies due to their conservative statistic methods.


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IBM's green push not limited to data centres
By: Stephen Withers

IBM is continuing its green campaign with moves into solar panel technology, water management, and extensions to its Project Big Green aimed at data centre efficiency.


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Intel tries to reconcile global warming and Moore's Law
By: Stan Beer

Driving a V8 gas guzzler in these days of skyrocketing fuel prices and fossil fuel induced climate change is no longer considered cool. So why should it be cool to own a supercharged power hungry desktop or laptop computer? Is Moore's Law dead? Not according to Intel.


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Australia's "ungreen" government cans solar panel rebates
By: Stan Beer

In what must surely be the most bone-headed decision in the history of the green energy movement, the Rudd Labor Government has decided to squash the nascent local solar panel industry. The same government that paid lip service to environmental concerns by signing the Kyoto Protocol has decided to make installation of home solar panels a class issue.


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Wanted: one million Australians
By: Stephen Withers

The Climate Savers Computing Initiative has arrived in Australia, and its movers and shakers are looking for one million people to commit to using more aggressive power management settings and to take energy efficiency into consideration when buying their next PCs.


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Green gamers? I don’t think so
By: Mike Bantick

What uses more power, a Sony PS3 or your average-sized refrigerator?  According to Choice magazine gaming systems and associated home entertainment equipment is chewing through more juice than ever.


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Revolutionary Lithium Ion battery research now funded by Saudis
By: Stan Beer

In January this year, the news broke that an assistant Professor and his team at Stanford University had invented a revolutionary battery technology capable of holding ten times the energy of existing Lithium Ion batteries. Now the Professor's ongoing research is being funded to the tune of $10 million by a startup university in Saudi Arabia and conspiracy theories are flowing as thickly as oil.


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Battle of the greens flares up fueled by coal
By: Stan Beer

Unity among various factions of the green movement in Australia appears to be disintegrating as a result of disagreement over the purported greening of coal power.


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It’s Our Earth, Well for One Hour Anyway
By: David Heath

In a few hours time, Australia will celebrate Earth Hour.  Another triumph of style over meaning.


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Denmark signs deal to implement Israel’s electric car project
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

The electric vehicle (EV) project by Shai Agassi, now underway in Israel, will see electric cars on sale from next year, matched by an infrastructure of charging stations that will replace flat batteries with charged ones. Now Denmark has signed up to the plan, aiming to charge the batteries with wind power, with at least 30 more countries wanting to get on the electric bandwagon.


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Australia and China in clean coal research agreement
By: Stan Beer

Australia and China have signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research which could result in a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the coal fired power stations that proliferate throughout both countries.


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National Academy of Engineering lists top 14 engineering projects
By: William Atkins

A committee selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced on February 15, 2008, a list of the most important engineering projects for the future, what its members are calling the Grand Challenges For Engineering.        
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HP provides carbon offset for printer buyers
By: Stephen Withers

LaserJet printers purchased between January 21 and April 30 will be backed by carbon offsets the emissions associated with the devices' estimated power consumption over their useful lifetime.


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CSIRO claims revolutionary waste into fuel process solves energy problem
By: Stan Beer

Australia's Commonwealth and Industrial research Organization (CSIRO) and Monash University in Melbourne have developed a chemical process that turns common green waste into a stable bio-crude oil. The reasearchers claim the energy is renewable, greenhouse gas neutral and eliminates the food versus fuel debate.


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FOSS to electric cars: not such a big leap
By: Sam Varghese

Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s. One could well say that he has a habit of looking at something and getting into it if he thinks it's going to be a future trend, one that could be useful and sensible.
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Google.org announces funding round
By: Stephen Withers

Google.org has announced a $US25 million funding round to a variety of organisations. The grants and investments fall into five areas that will be the focus of the company's philanthropic activity for the next five to ten years.


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CSIRO's UltraBattery to power hybrid cars
By: Stuart Corner

The CSIRO has developed a revolutionary 'UltraBattery' for use in hybrid petrol/electrical vehicles that combines supercapacitor and conventional lead acid battery technology into a single unit. It is able to deliver the benefits of both technologies and with much lower cost and longer life than a conventional battery.


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Revolutionary nanowire battery delivers 10x the charge of lithium-ion
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

An amazing new nanowire battery has finally been developed that delivers the revolutionary leap in battery technology we’ve all been waiting for, giving our gadgets and notebooks up to 10x the battery life, while reliably powering the electric cars of tomorrow. At last!


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