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Miraah Project, The World’s Biggest Solar Plant Built for the Oil Industry

Mila Luleva — Wed, 25 May 2016 04:41:24 +0000

Miraah Project, one of the largest solar power plants currently under construction, will be used to power oil extraction. Solar power is being promoted all around us as being cheap and super efficient. Newsfeeds are full of stories that tell us how the price of solar has never been closer to that of fossil fuels. […]

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California Fires Warning Shot in the Battle Against Fracking Waste

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:35:51 +0000

On November 15th, Vintage Productions of Kern County, a southern California oil company, was fined $60,000 after being caught on camera dumping fracking waste into an open well site. An area farmer, Tom Frantz, caught workers from the company dumping a black liquid discharge into an unlined, open pit on the well site in Shafter, […]

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Precision Nanoparticles Technology to Revolutionize Solar Cells

Cristi — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:35:50 +0000

The chemists from the Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University may have found the gold mine of solar energy efficiency. They invented the manufacturing of a highly precise and uniform nanopaticle that improves solar cells and further spurs the growing nanotech revolution.

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Steorn's Free Energy Machine to Be Tested One More Time This Year

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:34:55 +0000

Maybe you've heard about Steorn and their Orbo. Steorn is an Irish company that has been promising for a few years to accomplish something mankind has been dreaming for thousands of years: some call it perpetuum mobile, others call it overunity, but it is mostly known as "free energy" in lay terms.

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Arab Oil Company Acquires 4% of Tesla Motors

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:54:05 +0000

I don't want to cross the decent border of believing in a conspiracy theory, but when the oil business is threatened these days, it's normal that oil magnates wouldn't sit back and watch electric cars and alternative energy providers take their piece of meat from right in front of them.

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Self-powered Electric Vehicle Running without OIL/GAS/HV Battery

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:54:16 +0000

This car runs by itself with no need for GAS, OIL or any other external power source. It’s entirely self-powered by an electric mechanism resemblant to Bedini’s motor. See it for yourself! This is the future of the auto industry. Sooner or later it will still happen, no matter the consequences on the oil industry.

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