Transportation
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
While hybrids currently only represent a small portion of the automotive market, it is quickly growing amidst rising fuel prices and concerns over global warming. Some consumers even find it difficult to purchase a hybrid as wait times are long for popular models, and thus dealers are charging more. These ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
On Sunday Bombardier, a Canadian-based company that designs and builds mass transit vehicles, business jets and passenger planes, announced that it will roll out the first of its' CSeries planes, one that is substantially more environmentally friendly that what we find in the air today.
The CSeries will rival the well-known ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Airlines contribute to 3% of all CO2 emissions in Europe and an EU panel has included the industry in their Emission Trading Scheme. The scheme, which is an elaborate carbon (and other emission) trading program, allows for certain levels of CO2 to be emitted annually, and portions these amounts to ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Like the Prius wasn't good enough already, with its much anticipated 2010 model featuring a plug-in version, it's getting a set of solar panels on the roof to boot! The wildly popular car, which has already sold over 1 million units and is set to sell half a million annually ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Brazil is the 2nd largest producer of ethanol in the world, mostly produced from sugar cane, it makes up a third of all ethanol on the globe. Together with the United States, their numbers reach 70% of current production. In 2007, the country pumped out over 5 billion gallons of ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
I was disgusted this morning to see the "news" on yahoo's main page, with the headline of "Most dangerous kind of car on the road?" and "These cars are invisible." Of course with their sophistication of journalism I wasn't surprised to see that they don't actually tell you what kind ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The US judicial system is in a sorry state today, the Supreme Court having overturned the damages previously set out in 3 prior rulings for the environmental disaster that the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused back in 1989. Ignoring the fact that it took 19 years and 4 rulings to ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Most people may not know it, but seaweed has, for centuries, been used for a multitude of applications including cosmetics, food, medical treatments, fertilizers, and it was even burned to get potash and soda ash for the soap and glass industries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now Ireland's great ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Hypermiling has received a lot of media attention in the last year or so, and there are some great resources on how to practice it, here and here, so I won't go into the details, but I did want to share my personal experiences with the more "controversial" method of ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Due to the increasing cost of petroleum, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has had to cancel at least 4 voyages, and its cutting down the length of others. They are trying to figure out what missions they can and cannot run, and all of it comes down to fueling ...
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