Save $3966/year on electricity bills - annoy your neighbours in the process

A man on Long Beach Island has erected a windmill in his backyard to cut down on electricity bills (saving him $3966 a year). But in the process he has really pissed off his neighbours who are saying the sound, equivenlent to a noisy refrigerator, is too noisy and the structure itself is too big.

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A new form of matter found?

Scientists may have discovered a new form of matter - they call it a "string-net liquid" and even have speculated that the vacuum of the whole universe may be made from it.



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1300 black holes

A new image from the Chandra observatory found over 1300 black holes in the centers of galaxies billions of light years away. How can black holes be so bright?



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Texas Ahead Of California On Wind Power

"FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group has announced that 'as of the end of August it had completed 662 megawatts of the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas making it the largest wind farm in the world. When the last phase of the project is complete later this month, the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center will have a total capacity of 735 megawatts'. The Center has '291 GE 1.5 megawatt wind turbines and 130 Siemens 2.3 megawatt wind turbines...' OK Arnold, you better get kickin because: 'According to AWEA, at the end of the second quarter of 2006 Texas' cumulative total stood at 2,370 megawatts of capacity followed by California's 2,323 megawatts'."

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Wal-Mart Aims To Change How We Light Our Homes

In the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers--100 million in all--one compact fluorescent bulb. In the process, it may change energy consumption in the United States.

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