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Wales should be stronger ; VIEWPOINTS – South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Uk)

WALES has always been rich in important natural resources. Once it
was coal, copper and iron. Now it is renewable energy, water and
agriculture. A country like Wales should have a strong and healthy
economy. The legacy of London mismanagement has produced a country
with the lowest national incomes

German Smart Grid Leads the Way in Conservation

German Smart Grid Leads the Way in ConservationThere is an obvious push on not only using less energy, but in finding other forms of energy that will allow the world to recover from the years of literally pillaging its natural resources. Germany has been using some pretty innovative techniques to lead the way and their designers are coming up with [...]
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Texas site to harness ocean for power, water

Renew Blue’s Seadog pump, which uses wave and tidal power to produce electricity and can be harnessed for desalination, is about to be put to the commercial test off the coast of Texas.

Earlier this month, Renew Blue, a subsidiary of the Minneapolis-based Independent Natural Resources, was granted the …

Comprehensive Energy Bill Approved by Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Today, under the leadership of Chairman Jeff Bingaman
(D-N.M.), the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources completed the mark-up
of its comprehensive energy bill, the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of
2009, and voted 15 – 8 to report the bill out of Committee.  

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