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Hotel takes power from people
A luxury hotel in the Danish capital produces electricity by asking guests to step on bicycles connected to generators.
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Generate electricity from garbage
Some types of bacteria that are active in wastewater treatment can help people generate electricity, scientists claim.
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India launches the campaign
Through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the Indian government is replacing hundreds of thousands of incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.
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Indonesia wants to take advantage of volcanoes to make electricity
The Indonesian government has just announced an ambitious plan to take advantage of huge volcanic heat in the country to produce electricity.
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In just a few years, cars will run on seaweed
The erratic change of oil prices as well as the pressure of reducing global emissions and climate change, scientists are trying to create fuel from algae.
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China is at the forefront of clean energy use
China invested $ 34.6 billion to develop environmentally friendly energy sources in 2009, becoming the world's leading clean energy user.
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Producing electricity from the Black Sea's toxic gas
The world's largest polluted sea can provide an endless amount of electricity to humans thanks to its toxic gas.
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China will exploit burning ice
The land of Qinghai Province and the Tibetan Plateau buried a large amount of burnt ice, which can fuel China for 90 years.
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America actually returns to nuclear power
After more than 30 years of not building any nuclear power plant (NPP) since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the US has started to build a new nuclear power plan…
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'Planting' wind poles on the roof
French designer Philippe Starck, who is famous for his luxurious and modern interior designs, has introduced a new wind generator turbine.
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Cooking with sun rays
Stoves operated by heat from the sun can change the lives of people in poor countries.
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10 environmental technologies of the future
Using electronic paper, solar power, hydrogen technology ... are the outstanding environmental technologies in today's era - with pollution and exhaustion of resources.
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Beijing Airport uses solar energy
Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), China has invested 4 million yuan (US $ 588,000) to build the solar energy system.
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The precious energy source waits 'wake up'
As a renewable energy source, less polluting and commonly used in the world, but in Vietnam, geothermal is being neglectedly wasted.
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'Rescue' the earth with green food
US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke once commented: 'Clean energy may be the biggest economic opportunity of this century.'