Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Photo credit via Ecomodder. We may have covered this car, but I can't find it in our extensive archives, so I've included here, at least for historical reference on what is possible. It's a little old 1997 Geo Metro that's been retrofitted into an streamlined electric car with impressive performance. It can haul two adults a distance of 321 ...
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A new app called PlugShare for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is making it a whole lot easier to find convenient places to recharge your electric vehicle, which will make it a whole lot easier to reduce range anxiety. It comes just in time as gas prices hike upwards and consumers are taking a refreshed interest in EVs ...
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Photo via Wind Explorer The Wind Explorer --a kite-assisted lightweight electric car--drove 3,107 miles across Australia in 18 days using only $15 worth of electricity. As if that was... Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: Kite-Powered Electric Car Crosses Australia Using Only $15 Worth of Electricity
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Amid a media flurry starring a displaced polar bear and an easy-breathing Lance Armstrong , Nissan has become the unlikely leader as it delivers a mass-produced, affordable electric car. The Leaf is now arriving in the driveways of eager customers, and the face of the auto industry will never be the same. Mark Perry, Nissan's Director of Product Planning ...
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Tired of seeing similar reviews of the Chevrolet Volt ? Here's one for you by Gene Weingarten, a man who's definitely not a automotive journalist and who probably couldn't write a typical review even if he tried to. Some of you might remember Mr. Weingarten's best-known work : "his chronicling of a world-class violinist (Joshua Bell) who, as an ...
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Photo: VW 1-Liter Car V.3 Volkswagen's 1-Liter Car started out as a slippery 660 pounds diesel , evolved into a more futuristic-looking 840 pounds diesel-hybrid , and is now - in its third generation - a plug-in diesel hybrid that looks a lot like the second generation but now has a plug. VW rates it at 0.9 L/100 km ...
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Image: MMC Transitioning Away from the Internal Combustion Engine Mitsubishi, the maker of the lovely electric Jellybean (aka the i-MiEV electric car ), has plans to introduce 8 hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by 2015. They anticipate increased demand for "low-carbon" cars and want to position themselves as a major source of those. (Whether they ...
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Photos: Youtube screen grabs A Pretty Safe Electric Jellybean In the video below, the German auto-club ADAC did its own safety test of the Mitsubishi i MiEV electric car, and the results are pretty positive. While the video is in German, you can see that even after a 40 MPH crash, the passenger cell remains intact, the airbags deploy ...
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Top Gear's Tesla review isn't the only piece of BBC reporting that has annoyed green transport enthusiasts. Business Green reports that electric car advocates in the UK are up in arms over a BBC's experiment on the viability of electric cars . Rather than testing the vehicles in the conditions and purposes they were designed for (short- to medium-distance ...
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Photo: Ypy31 , public domain. The Electric Jellybean Comes to Europe European electro-enthusiasts (and I'm not talking about music fans) take note, Mitsubishi Motors announced today that sale of the European-spec i-MiEV electric car will begin in 15 European countries. Production started last fall, and it seems like the company is now has stockpiled enough EV jellybeans to begin ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
