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Aurora Tourism in Iceland: You Can Seek, but You May Not Find

Baua Electric

From the outside, it may seem like the northern lights dance across Iceland’s skies each night. The lights are even on some recycling bins in Reykjavík, the capital: “Keep Iceland Clean.” In the past decade or so, an aurora borealis industrial complex has boomed in Iceland. But the lights can be elusive.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Cars That Think

A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Green Car Congress

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar).

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. The whole roof of the house is solar, so I can plug in all sorts of different kinds of cars. In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Many leading markets and car manufacturers have committed to effectively phasing out fossil fuel powered light vehicles. Do you support the target to reduce VKT by cars and light vehicles by 20 per cent by 2035 through providing better travel options, particularly in our largest cities, and associated actions? . Transport .

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Gudmundur Arnason, sponsored by Icelands National Energy Authority, Prius by Amberjac/EnergyCS, August 2007 (Akureyri, Iceland), contact gudmundurarnason@simnet.is ( full-size photo ) City of Toronto , Prius, Hymotion, August 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

Drive Electric

ICEVs have been around for a while, and although they’ve had the time to perfect their manufacturing process and we’ve seen increased pressure on the importance of fuel economy and emissions, the thermal efficiency of the average light vehicle engine remains between 20-35%, and we’re not seeing much improvement beyond this. THE BOTTOM LINE.