Environment

Auto Catch-Up

- Adam Clare

Two good vehicular announcements:

A 3-wheeled machine has been demonstrated in Bath, England. “The prototype Clever (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car is one metre wide and less polluting than normal vehicles.” It tilts into the turns and has a top speed of 100 km/h , a novel invention indeed.

And at the Geneva Auto Show a company debuted a very efficient automobile, the Loremo. “The combination of light weight and tunnel tested aerodynamics allow this car to travel 157 miles per gallon of gasoline or 1.5 l per 100km!”

Got Wind?

- Adam Clare

The do-it-yourself renewable energy website, gotwind.org, has launched a competition to make a cheap, and effective wind turbine.

” You are required to design, but not necessarily build a workable wind generator that produces a good useable amount of electricity.”

The rules are simple and the impact of this competition can be huge. Give it a shot!

Concentrating Power

- Adam Clare

A cheaper way to use solar power energy has been created that concentrates the sun intense rays on a very small focal point. The key is using the sun as heat, opposed to turning the light directly into electricity.

“It uses an old principle—that concentrated light is a great heat source—to achieve a level of efficiency on par with conventional power sources and far higher than traditional solar cells. Instead of converting sunlight directly into electricity, as those familiar rooftop solar panels do, it uses a concave array of mirrors to focus light on a central point, where the resulting heat causes compressed hydrogen to expand, driving a four-cylinder engine that turns a 25-kilowatt generator. “

Algae Clears the Air

- Adam Clare

A rocket scientists has found a way to use algae in smokestacks to clean the smoke, and what’s more the byproduct of the algae is biodiesel! This means that corporate profit lovers can clean the air and make money off of it.

The algae consumes 60% of CO2 emissions from the test stacks and the smoke contained 86% less nitrous oxide!

Subverted SUV Spots

- Adam Clare

Some marketing genius has given people the opportunity to make their own commercials for an SUV. So, people have used the commercial-making tool to roll their own versions that point out that SUVs kill the environment. A fantastic act of subversion.

The company is most likely taking down the commercials that point out that the environment exists so here is an example one from youtube.

If you find other clips post them in the comments.

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