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The EnergyHub Dashboard, a little device, with a screen, that can talk wirelessly to your furnace and your various appliances and let you know exactly how much electricity (or gas) each one is using and how much it's costing you.

This surely is going to be the world's most unusual tall building. Imagine that it will be, from time to time, the most beautiful or most ugly building in the world.

Man makes life! Or almost. J. Craig Venter, co-cartographer of the human genome, managed another genetic first when he pieced together de novo the genome of a living organism from a batch of man-made compounds.
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A number of readers of my LED posts have voiced skepticism as to the total energy savings that LED lamps have promised.

There’s no question that they use a fraction of the power used by standard incandescent bulbs to produce the same amount of light and last up to 25 times as long.

The first two Mars rovers have performed WAY beyond expectations so this news about the newest rover is exciting.

The last two rovers the U.S. sent to Mars are still running more than four years later. The next one, the Mars Science Laboratory (most boring rover name ever!), is even tougher.