article thumbnail

Help! I Missed a Cruise and the Cruise Line’s Own Travel Insurance Won’t Pay.

Baua Electric

Our $7,657 cruise package included airfare from Atlanta to Barcelona, Spain, via Newark, and Norwegian’s own BookSafe Travel Protection Plan , which included travel insurance and also allowed me to “cancel for any reason” for a 75 percent credit. I feel I should at least get the 75 percent credit — otherwise what was the protection plan for?

Atlanta 52
article thumbnail

Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

Cars That Think

The cost of replacing them adds up. Amon Schumann, a senior at the Robert-Havemann-Gymnasium school, in Berlin, has invented eco-friendly, cost-effective solutions. His Small Radiosondes on a Great Mission project was showcased in May at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair held in Atlanta.

Solar 99
article thumbnail

DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

Green Car Congress

Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.) Projects in this area will focus on the development of preliminary conceptual designs and techno-economic analyses that predict plant efficiency, cost of produced products, and environmental impacts. Georgia Tech will team with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.,

Coal 218
article thumbnail

First results from HEI/ACES murine study find few biologic effects from exposure to exhaust from new technology diesel engines

Green Car Congress

The panel did note some limitations to the interpretation of the study: the study design did not include a simultaneous comparison with emissions from an older engine built before the 2007 regulations.

Exhaust 207