Energy law pulls plug on Edison's light bulb
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The light bulb Thomas Edison invented 125 years ago is getting more than a make-over. The government is pulling the plug on it.
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There's money on the table if you take some energy-saving steps.
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By Cynthia H. Cho, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 15--When the Energy Policy Act was signed into law in August 2005, there was little public discussion about a provision that would affect nearly every single American: extending daylight-saving time by four weeks.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.   In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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EAST EARL, Pa. -- Across the moonless dark of Lancaster County, where horse-drawn buggies clatter along dusty country roads and many families shun electricity, a strange blue light cuts harshly through the night.
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When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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BAGHDAD -- As the sun came up on election day, Jabbar Hussein Jabbar al-Rubaie drew the curtains to let in the light and fired up the kerosene heater, because, once again, the electricity was out.
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Power failure? Some hybrid owners are plugging their houses into their cars to provide backup electricity.
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Energy bill passes. Fossil-fuel companies continue to get tax breaks.
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An electronic device that uses spinach to convert light into electrical charge has been developed by US researchers. Shuguang Zhang at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, and research collaborators
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A Californian politician is aiming to bring in a law banning the sale of traditional light bulbs.
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SYDNEY -- Australia's government announced plans yesterday to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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Al Gore's plan for a symbolic switch-off of lights during the UK Live Earth gig is vetoed by the National Grid.
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By Brian Nearing, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 11--ALBANY -- Who is going to pay for Reggie? That's a  quarter-billion dollar question with an answer that could cost anyone in the  state who flips on a light switch.
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RICHMOND -- The Virginia General Assembly is trying to rewrite the complex laws that govern the state's power companies, moving toward an untested approach to electricity regulation and prompting charges from consumer groups that monthly bills will rise.