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Clean technology is emerging as one of the hottest investment bets of the year as activity in the environmentally friendly sector begins to turn the heads of hungry investors.

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WELLESLEY, Mass., July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Babson College Fast Track MBA Program and Oregon Institute of Technology’s Renewable Energy Engineering Program announce a partnership to explore business application for renewable energy technologies.

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You can get your kicks on Route 66, what if you could get your wind & solar power there as well?
A few states are already dabbling in roadside energy production. Last year, Oregon began a “solar highway” demonstration project with a 104-kilowatt ground-mounted solar array situated at the interchange of Interstates 5 & 205 (1/3 of the lights).

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BEIJING (Reuters) – The huge costs required to capture CO2 emitted by China’s vast coal-fired power sector is a price worth paying to cut greenhouse gases to reasonable levels, U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said.

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BELFAST, Me. — On America’s highways, wind turbines may be the ultimate oversize load.
Trucks carrying silvery blades nearly half a football field long have been lumbering through this placid coastal town all summer, backing up traffic as they slowly exit the roadway. Huge, tubular chunks of tower also pass through.

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SAN FRANCISCO — A decade ago, only 500 rooftops in California boasted solar panels that harvest the sun’s energy. Today, there are nearly 50,000 solar-panel installations in the state, according to a report to be issued Thursday by the research and lobbying group Environment California.

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NEW YORK — The past year has been tough on T. Boone Pickens and his $60 million mission to wean America off of foreign oil.
Over the past 12 months, Pickens pressed the public to rethink its use of energy. His “Pickens Plan” called for a number of changes such as investing in wind and solar energy, rebuilding the country\’s electrical grid.

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President Obama has often described his push to fund “clean” energy technology as key to America’s drive for international competitiveness as well as a way to combat climate change.

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(CNN) — Skydiving and parachuting, canoe polo, rhythmic gymnastics, orienteering, dragon boat races and korfball are among the air, land and water sports to kick off the first day of The World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Friday.

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WASHINGTON – While most lawmakers accept that more renewable energy is needed on the nation’s grid, the debate over the giant climate-change and energy bill now before Congress is exposing a fundamental rift. For many players, the energy not only has to be clean and free of carbon-dioxide emissions, it also has to be generated nearby.

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