Healthy Environment
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This wind turbine has no blades — and that’s why it’s better
This type of design would also alleviate the toll taken on hundreds of thousands birds and bats each year by bladed turbines. The Vortex bladeless turbine uses the wind to vibrate instead of spin. That makes it cheaper, quieter, and more reliable than a bladed turbine. Source: This wind turbine has no blades — and
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The World’s First Solar Road Is Producing More Energy Than Expected
Great news for the first solar road. The project’s creators didn’t expect such a high energy yield this quickly. Source: The World’s First Solar Road Is Producing More Energy Than Expected | ThinkProgress
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Dangerous Levels of Arsenic Found In Wine?
I like wine. In fact, I really like wine. I don’t drink a lot of it, but when I do drink it, I would prefer it did not contain arsenic. So you can imagine my concern when I found out that a class action lawsuit had been filed because a bunch of other people also
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Monarch butterflies drop, migration may disappear
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The stunning and little-understood annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies to spend the winter in Mexico is in danger of disappearing, experts said Wednesday, after numbers dropped to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1993. Source: Monarch butterflies drop, migration may disappear – Yahoo News