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Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Technology

Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Imagine charging your cellphone from a meadow or harvesting electricity from rice paddies. The technology works, but can we make plant power a staple crop?

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India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution

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India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution

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Bendy battery gives smart fabrics a charge

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Fracking health risks: Drilling into the unknown

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Fracking health risks: Drilling into the unknown

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Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever

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Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever

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Rescue struggles towards Alaska's frozen-in village

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Rescue struggles towards Alaska's frozen-in village

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Fracking risk is exaggerated

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Fracking risk is exaggerated

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Buildings and clothes could melt to save energy

Technology

Buildings and clothes could melt to save energy

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Big ships go green with retro technology

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Big ships go green with retro technology

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Single particle is the smallest Stirling engine yet

Technology

Single particle is the smallest Stirling engine yet

A 200-year-old rival to the steam and combustion engines has inspired a power generator made from a microscopic particle

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US plans its first megadam in 40 years

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Paint-on power, the saviour of solar

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Technology

Charge your electric car on the move

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New power plants and factories lock us into hot future

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