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LED Lamp Runs on Mud : TreeHugger

Dutch designer Marieke Staps has built a lamp with the LEDs powered by soil. She writes: 'Free and environmentally friendly energy forever and ever. The lamp runs on mud. The metabolism of biological life produces enough electricity to keep an

Don’t Call it a Wind Farm, It’s an EcoPower Centre: Canada’s Largest Wind Project (200 MW) Opens : TreeHugger

photo: Canadian Hydro Though in the scheme of the world it’s solidly in the middle ranks of wind power project capacity, but given that the newly finished Melancthon EcoPower Centre, developed by Canadian Hydro, is Canada’s largest wind farm

Short on Cash, Businesses Rediscover Bartering - NYTimes.com
Drawing on the reach of the Internet, many exchanges include participants from around the world.

3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High - NYTimes.com

LG, Sharp and Chunghwa Picture Tubes agreed to cooperate in an antitrust investigation being run by the Justice Department.

Physicists steer electrons with laser pulses: Method could be used to create custom-made chemical compounds

PhysOrg.com: Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but they now have found a way to control the motion of the molecules' building blocks, electrons and nuclei.

Mysterious Microbe Plays Important Role in Ocean Ecology

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A paper describing the new findings appears in the November 14 issue of the journal Science.

Bike Gadget Turns Red Lights Green | Autopia from Wired.com

Getting stuck at a red light that won't change sucks. It's even worse when you're on a bicycle because you'll never see green until a car rolls up and trips

10 Fascinating Last Pictures Taken - The List Universe

This list consists of 10 last time stamps in history taken of and by some fascinating individuals.

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Report Sees New Pollution Threat - NYTimes.com

“Brown clouds,” noxious cocktails of toxic chemicals, are blotting out the sun in large parts of Asia, according to a report by the United Nations.