Whenever we write about the benefits of direct current at either high voltage or low, we get comments like "You are an idiot and KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE GENERATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF ELECTRICITY! QUIT TELLING LIES!!!!!!!" . Then we have other commenters who get worked up.

Over at Worldchanging, Andy Lubershane uses his trademark humour and comic skills to explain all about this issue.

I’m not sure if Malhotra was referring to American Football or what the rest of the world calls football, but both stadiums are quite large. Wembley Stadium photo: Lawrie Cate.

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Incase you are getting bored with your super sleek, minimalist iPod speaker set-up, or you miss the 80s, check out this new Boombox-style speaker dock.

It has one foot in eco-friendliness, and one foot out.

A Finavera Renewables wave turbine, tested off the coast of Oregon, uses the up and down motion of waves to create electricity.

For years, technological visionaries have painted a seductive vision of using ocean tides and waves to produce power. They foresaw large installations off coastlines and in tidal estuaries that could provide as much as 10 percent of U.S. electricity needs.

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In case you’re new to the “new energy economy” debate—in short, figuring out how to transition the entire energy infrastructure of the world away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy—and want as about brief a summary as could be created of the progress made in the last year as well as some of the challenges ahead, this one’s for you.