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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Books are awesome, but for those of us who are both avid readers and environmentally conscious, sitting down with our favorite read can sometimes bring us pangs of guilt. And no wonder, roughly 20 million trees are cut down every year to supply virgin paper for the books sold in ...
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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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Friday, June 27th, 2008
We love LED lights; they can provide as much illumination as our erstwhile friend the incandescent, but at a small fraction of the power consumption, and they can last you an entire lifetime (it would be amusing to bequeath some LEDs to my future offspring), having a typical life of ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Powering the grid with renewable energies is a great idea that we'd love to see, and we'd love even more to see coal, oil, and natural gas-fired power plants (and nukes too) close up their doors for good. Unfortunately, the largest of these renewable energies cannot be relied upon to ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Toyota has announced that they have a very good problem: they are selling so many hybrid vehicles that they can barely keep up with the demand for the batteries that go in them. "Hybrids are selling so well we are doing all we can to increase production," said Toyota's ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
When it comes to electric cars and fuel cell cars, we tend to wait around for a while, always being promised something that is just the little bit further into the future. Today, however, we have something firmly in hand. Honda has announced this morning that they have begun commercial ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
More and more frequently you will find slinking figures in dark alleys, not bent on mugging you, but rather poised to suck away as much grease and vegetable oil as possible from restaurant grease traps to fuel their cars. With rising fuel prices, this grease-thievery is becoming a common practice ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
We see fuel cells in concept cars, gadgets, and even in an airplane or two, but we generally don't see them hanging around the house. Panasonic, through the Matsushita Group, has decided to change all that and they are "devoting all [their] energies" to the development of their Household Fuel ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Toyota announced today that it has developed a fuel cell hybrid vehicle with a newly designed high-performance fuel cell stack. Their "TOYOTA FCHV-adv" has increased its fuel efficiency over the company's previous FCHV by 25% through higher efficiency of the fuel cells, better regenerative breaking, and reducing energy consumed in ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Hewlett Packard announced yesterday that they and Xtreme Energetics (XE), have entered into an agreement to develop a solar panel that will work at twice the efficiency of conventional panels, and at half the cost. Many new technologies purport to be able to do this, but theirs might actually pull ...
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