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mega industry

A Coal-Burning Power Plant, Before and After

Though the EU has been clamoring to reduce carbon emissions, Germany is in the process of building 26 new coal-burning power plants. Here you can see a gigantic excavator machine mining brown coal near the Boxberg power plant yesterday. Consider this a "before" picture. Want to see what happens after the excavation? More »

7:00 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,975 views, 36 comments

Latest by corpore-metal: If you look hard enough, you'll find that a lot of green energy sources have overlooked drawbacks. Think about the steel mills that make the turbines blades for wind and tidal generators. Think about the copper mining in Peru for more »

nuke power

The Future Is Coming Up Nukes

Nuclear power is the other alternative energy - cleaner than biomass, and less retarded than ethanol. Sure there's that pesky problem of nuclear waste, but that's not stopping a union of European, Asian, and United States task forces from working on the next generation of nuclear power plants, that will look something like this on the inside (this is a Trigia research nuke power reactor, designed by Freeman Dyson). And here's the cool part. Many new, generation IV nuclear reactors will be virtually waste-free. Want to see some of the prototype generation IV nuke power plants? More »

7:00 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,535 views, 26 comments

Latest by GMC: @Bearskopff: tried the middle smoke stack thing lots of times, i can go flying up very very high and can go flying off the edge of the map - but no mon landing for me. How exactly did you do it more »

environmental collapse

Which of Your Toys Will Suck Most Next Year?

Good magazine has whipped up an amazing chart that shows how much energy your electronic toys will suck up next year — even when they're turned off. Most electronics stay in standby mode when turned off, maintaining a clock in a microwave, say, or a timer in your DVR that tells it when to turn on. After the jump, see the full chart showing how much money people in the US will spend next year just to keep devices on standby. It ain't pretty. More »

7:00 AM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Annalee Newitz
229 views, 2 comments

Latest by MirDreams: Ok, except for the plazma TV I don't think that's too bad. I'd like to know what it'd be for other types of TV's. more »

science porn

Green Ooze Controls Woman's Mind

AP07101803115.jpgFrom "Can algae save the world?" an exhibit at the Science Museum in London running until April 2008. Scientists are hoping the entire planet will use algae as biofuels in the future. More menacing algae after the jump. Images by Kirsty Wigglesworth for AP. More »

3:19 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By charliejane
176 views, Comment

dystopia

Who Says Oil Has No Future?


In the vast, untapped oil sands of Alberta, Canada, Syncrude's upgrader looks like an industrial Martian base as it sucks oil out of the shale. There's are no spouts of black gold here — just bitumen, a viscous substance that has to be heated or diluted before it becomes liquid. The upgrader sits in an oil sand field that's almost half the size of Colorado in northern Alberta. Oil sand will probably become a huge source of energy for the world if those factory farms full of corn for Ethanol don't work out. AP Photo by Jeff McIntosh.
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7:40 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Annalee Newitz
34 views, Comment