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SAN FRANCSICO — The co-founders of the electric car company Tesla Motors Inc. have settled their legal battle with laudatory statements of each other\’s accomplishments.

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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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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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DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of biofuels to help meet demand for renewable fuels with reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Racing to boost its renewable-energy production by 2015, Madison, Wis.-based Wisconsin Power & Light Co. (WPL) is poised to start construction on a two-phase wind-energy development in southern Minnesota.

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Urine-powered cars, homes and personal electronic devices could be available in six months with new technology developed by scientists from Ohio University

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DENVER (AP) — A company that supplies power to rural electric cooperatives in four Western states announced Monday that it will buy electricity from a new wind farm on Colorado’s Eastern Plains.
The wind farm will supply enough electricity to power up to 14,000 households served by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc.

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