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From: The Economist - December 06, 2008 Telecoms firms are reducing the power consumption of their networks, for economic and environmental reasons. Like many other industries, the telecoms industry is increasingly worried about its energy consumption and the associated carbon footprint. This is not just because rising energy prices have made it more expensive to run telecoms networks; ...

World of Bioenergy – September 13, 2008 A key panel of European Union lawmakers voted on Thursday to lower a target for using tradition biofuels from crops in petrol and diesel as part of the EU’s plan to fight climate change. The move could curb the growth of a market coveted by biofuels exporters such as Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as European farming nations. The ...

Interesting article in my opinion: The dull hum that emanates from many wind turbines could soon become a thing of the past thanks to a group of German researchers who claim to have developed a new sound muffling technology capable of cutting noise levels by an estimated 50 per cent. Engineers at the at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in Dresden ...