No surprises here.

White House officials last December sought to stop the Environmental
Protection Agency from submitting a proposed rule that would limit
greenhouse-gas emissions from new vehicles.

The proposed rule was EPA's response to an April 2007 Supreme Court
ruling that the agency had violated the Clean Air Act by refusing to
take up the issue of regulating automobile emissions that contribute to
global warming.

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A
Canadian engineer has a plan to extract
energy from a man-made tornado.  It all depends on heating the air near the surface so that it is much warmer than the air above.

Convective air currents are only useful if they can be
channeled in some way.

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We're in real trouble.

With a big gas crisis in full swing, Americans are turning to public transportation to save money.  Long touted as a way to help reduce polution, public transportaion is struggling to cope with the increased demand on its services.

You just can't win.

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This
week, the McCain campaign is promoting John McCain's long-term commitment to
providing market-based solutions to climate change and highlighting
ways we can all protect our environment. To do this, the campaign is taking this week to
launch a new section of their store - complete with eco-friendly items.

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The four leading chip and electronics makers, Intel, Infineon, Texas Instruments and Panasonic, will help market and test
a standard to wire together computers, TVs and entertainment systems
using electricity, phone and coaxial cable lines that already exist in
most homes.

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What is everyone doing today to celebrate?

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There seems to be lots of content on this site that gets posted, and it has nothing to do with what the site is about. 

We don't care if you're single.  We don't care if you're mad at your best friend because she stole your date for the prom.

Most people don't know about the Flagging feature here on Greenopolis.  At the bottom of each post, there is a link that says "Flag as Offensive".  When you click on this link, you can choose why the content is offensive, and one of the options is "Off-Topic".

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The hottest trend right now in green computing centers around virtualization.  For those not familiar with the topic, virtualization allows you to running multiple operating systems on a single piece of hardware.  The benefit to this is that you maximize resource utilization on a server while lowering power consumption and reducing cooling costs.

VMWare is perhaps the best-known vendor providing virtualization software.  However, Microsoft is in the game as well, and Xen, a new vendor on the scene, has some pretty promising solutions, if a bit immature.

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Researchers are developing new technology that  uses nano-technology to drastically increase the lifespan of batteries.

The key innovation involves using silicon nanowires instead of the usual carbon to store energy in a lithium-ion battery's anode.  Silicon has more than 10 times as much charge capacity as carbon. With this innovation, you could theoretically be running your laptop for 20 to 40 hours straight rather than the typical two to four hours. An electric car could go 400 miles on a charge rather than 40 miles.

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I was just reading about how there is a big push for environment awareness at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Car manufacturers are jumping on the ride, hoping to get free publicity for their hybrid cars and technology that is largely in prototype, and will never see the public.

How much of this could be considered a hijacking by corporate America as a giant PR campaign?  Will this be just like every other election cycle where energy policy is brought to the fore and then quickly dropped once someone is elected?

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