100% Wind and Solar Powered Billboards Come to London, New York & Sydney
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This week, office solutions company Ricoh unveiled what it is calling the "eco-board" - a billboard powered entirely by solar and wind power in London. Situated on the M4 motorway, the billboard is equipped with 96 solar panels and five wind turbines, and it only lights up when it has produced enough energy to do so. It's not the first of its kind, though- Ricoh has already installed similar billboards in New York and Sydney....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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CANARY Event Detection Software screen projection. Canary is open source software developed by Sandia in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency to enhance the detection of terrorist attacks or natural contaminants to public drinking water systems.. Image & caption credits:Sandia Labs
Turning the internet from an avenue for hackers to do harm into a tool to help municipal authorities better protect public health would be a lovely idea wouldn't it? Well now then, thanks to your USA taxpayer dollars and not-think-tank scientists at work, remote sensors in public water system reservoirs...
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So, Japan's per capita energy use is already half that of the United States. Half. And that's the energy consumption of one of the world's richest, most technologically advanced nations. That stat should make us ashamed of ourselves. But this might be even more impressive: in the aftermath of the nuclear crisis, Japanese citizens have cooperated to help save electricity. In the process, they've reduced energy usage by 15% in Tokyo, one of the world's most electric cities. The 
If you've ever wondered how when there are heavy storms New York City's sewer system gets overwhelmed (check out this 
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