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 We may have covered this car, but I can't find it in our extensive archives, so I've included here, at least for historical reference on what is possible.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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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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Photo credit: chego101 / Creative Commons This post was written by Danny Chang, Senior Product Marketing Manager at eBay and contributor to eBayGreenTeam.com. In an ideal world, everyone would be able to ditch their cars , burn some extra calories, and bond with their community on electric subways, buses, and trains. However, since not all public transportation systems are ...
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Photo credit: Daniel Loewe. Project: Svala Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW . The result are 5 concepts for future mobility in cities like Barcelona , that result from morphing fashion with transport design. Great to see that all ...
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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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Sanyo's Kasai Plant in Japan. Photo: Sanyo Sanyo Bullish on Electric Cars Only a few months after completing its giant lithium-ion battery factory in Kasai city, Japan, Sanyo seems to think that it's still not enough. The company is investing 15 billion yen (about 180 million U.S. dollars) to increase its annual output capacity for automotive lithium-ion batteries by ...
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Photo: GM Other EVs to Follow Not to be outdone by its competitor Hertz, which announced that many models of electric cars will be available in 2011 , Enterprise car rental says that it will have Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids on offer for daily and weekly rentals later this month, though at first only at the Mark Christopher Auto ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
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 ...
