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Can we grab electricity from muggy air?

A team of chemists think we can get power from air – if we don't mind violating a long-held chemical principle

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Medical nanotech could find unconventional oil

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Medical nanotech could find unconventional oil

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Green machine: Wave power line jacks into the grid

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Green machine: Wave power line jacks into the grid

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Infrared chlorophyll could boost solar cells

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Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

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Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions

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Lung-style fuel cell needs less bling for more oomph

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Green machine: Fighting the efficiency fallacies

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Green machine: Fighting the efficiency fallacies

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The next best thing to oil

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Innovation: Reinventing urban wind power

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Innovation: Reinventing urban wind power

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Which oil-mopping technology will win $1.4m X prize?

Filters, centrifuges, and oil-gulping ships may be among the contenders for a new X prize designed to avert another Deepwater Horizon disaster

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E. coli engineered to make convenient 'drop-in' biofuel

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US food waste worth more than offshore drilling

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Green machine: A salty solution for power generation

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Alternative nuclear fuel is surprisingly reactive

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