The fuel economy of Tesla's Model S Signature is rated by the EPA as 89 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent. (Tesla)
4:42 pm ET -Praise pours in for the Tesla Model S, a costly car that uses no gas.
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Earth Talk: Compare costs of alternative energy
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Earth Talk: Sizing up oil shale as a possible resource
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Sunrise for solar heat power
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How Baoding, China, becomes world’s first ‘carbon positive’ city
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China's green leap forward
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Earth Talk: Community-wide solar cuts costs
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Dig the coal, bury the carbon
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Better lives in Bangladesh – through green power
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Jon Wellinghoff, Obama’s energy futurist
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Ocean power surges forward
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Tapping the energy potential in our backyards
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The ‘holy grail’ of biofuels now in sight
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Iceland strides toward a hydrogen economy
Global economic crises underscores urgency of the goal, even as it delays progress.
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Montana’s got wind, needs power lines
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Backyard reactors? Firms shrink the nukes.
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