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From Oil to Asphalt: How a Powder Could Turn the Gulf Slick Into Future Highways

Brian Merchant of Treehugger is reporting on location about the efforts to contain the Gulf oil spill (seen here in a photo taken this morning by astronaut Soichi Noguchi from the International Space Station). The latest idea to ...READ»

High-Tech Asphalt Sucks Energy From Your Car to Power Other Stuff

When Innowattech introduced its so-called "piezoelectric road"--a 10-meter piece of asphalt embedded with piezoelectric generators--late last year, critics complained that extracting kinetic energy from cars is akin to highway ...READ»