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Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable

Cars That Think

We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Among them: Our society generates massive amounts of waste that is going to remain in landfills for a long time. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects.

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10 best electric bicycles you can get

Green Authority

Public transportation can waste time unless you live in a city with a great system, and even then it can be a messy, overpacked ordeal. Also, don’t buy it if you plan on having money in your bank account. Charging it on a standard outlet will fully juice it up in just 80 minutes. What to do? That’s over $27,000.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers. 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions.