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SmartPlanet: Designing Grid for Renewables – And Why Nuclear Does Not Adapt

Designing the grid for renewables By Chris Nelder | October 3, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT Americans have been repeatedly told a series of lies about accommodating renewables onto the power grid: That it can’t handle large amounts of intermittent power generation. That standby fossil-fueled capacity must be maintained at 100 percent of demand for those …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Hungarian Pre-Fab Homes Creates Twice the Energy It Consumes

Hungary’s Odooproject prefab home produces twice the amount of energy it consumes On the eve of the opening of the European Solar Decathlon, a team from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics is ready to present its innovative solar-powered prefab home, which produces twice the amount of energy than it consumes. The decathlon is …

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Berto Jongman: Johan Galtung Keynote to UN Human Rights Council – Twelve Theses for Creating a New Equitable World That Works for All

Peace, human rights and development in multi-polar and evolving world Johan Galtung TMS, 2 October 2012 Keynote Speech at the UN Human Rights Council SOCIAL FORUM – Oct 1, 2012 Your Excellencies! The title for this Sixth Social Forum – in the context of the 10 Articles of the UN Declaration on the Right to …

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Yoda: $16 Trillion Or So – Opportunity Costs & Integrity Lost

QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion?   (September 24, 2012) Central banks could be helping communities instead of enriching predatory, parasitic “too big to fail” banks and financial feudalism. In a system that depends on lies and the credulity of the citizenry, the greatest lie is that the Federal …

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SmartPlanet: Bill Gates is Shit Hot — Really!

Next-gen toilets that could change the world Kirsten Korosec | August 16, 2012, Flush toilets get the job done. They also require a network of piped water, sewer and electrical connections, the kind of vast infrastructure developing nations don’t have, and likely won’t, for years. That translates into a potentially lethal situation for the 2.5 …

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