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‘Fuel’ to the Fire of Oil Addiction
Fuel is a vital, superbly assembled documentary that presents an insightful overview of America’s troubled relationship with oil and how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country’s—and the world’s—addictive dependence on fossil fuels. Source: Los Angeles Times Review Friday, February 13 by Gary Goldstein “Fuel.” Visit Fuel Website
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Biodiesel—the Clean, Green Fuel for Diesel Engines
Biodiesel is natural, renewable resources such as vegetable oils and recycled restaurant greases can be chemically transformed into clean-burning biodiesel fuels. As its name implies, biodiesel is like petroleum diesel fuel except that it is agriculturally produced. It’s also safe for the environment, biodegradable, and produces significantly less air pollution than diesel fuel. It even smells better than diesel fuel-it smells like french fries, donuts, or barbecue. Biodiesel blended with petroleum, such as B20 fuel (20% bidiesel/80% petroleum diesel) commonly […]
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World’s First Full Scale Floating Wind Turbine
SatoilHydro will build the world’s first full scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, and test it over a two-year period offshore. The company is investing approximately 400 million NOK (63 million USD). Planned startup is Autumn 2009. Via: www.statoilhydro.com
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Samsung’s Solar Charging Phone ‘Blue Earth’ at MWC 2009 in Barcelona
Samsung Electronics plans to release its Blue Earth solar-powered handset later this year in Europe. The phone is pebble-shaped, free from hazardous substances and made out of recycled water bottles. It is attractive in style and eco-friendly without compromising features, product design nor UI (user interface).
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Nanotechnology and the Nokia Morph Phone Mode
Nanotechnology is an expected future manufacturing technology that will make most products lighter, stronger, cleaner, less expensive and more precise. A nanotechnology concept, Morph, demonstrates the functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics, self-cleaning surfaces, ability to observer local environment and harvest energy. Via: www.nokia.com