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LONDON, Aug. 25 (UPI) — British wind farm developers have strongly denied allegations their construction ships are responsible for a recent rash of seal deaths, authorities said.
Scientists investigating the killing of at least 33 seals whose mutilated bodies have washed ashore in Norfolk and the surrounding coastline say they believe the deaths were caused [...]

LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 24 (UPI) — Americans are using less energy overall and availing themselves of more renewable energy sources, a report says.
Data released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed the United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008 while utilizing considerably more wind power.
And while there [...]

BOSTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) — A Nobel Prize-winning U.S. scientist says the world could soon enter an era where renewable wind and solar power will be the globe’s main sources of energy.
Walter Kohn, who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, told a meeting of the American Chemical Society that total oil and natural [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Researchers in Denmark say a project to store wind energy in giant synthetic air bags buried under sand dunes has been successful.
A test in Southern Jutland showed 97 percent efficiency in storing wind energy, the Copenhagen Post reported Friday.
Wind powered compressors inflate the bags, and the compressed [...]

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Aug. 6 (UPI) — Energy companies in Canada’s Maritime Provinces say they are studying ways for their customers to help them utilize wind energy more efficiently.
Wind power is environmentally friendly but unpredictable compared to carbon-fueled sources of electricity, which are always available as needed, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News reported Friday.
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