Archive for August, 2009
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009As usual, right before the passage of an aid bill to Pakistan, a plethora of lobbies begin their disinformation campaigns. This latest one is pretty absurd. According to the Pakistanphobes that want to derail the aid package to Pakistan Islamabad has supposedly modified vintage Anti-ship US Harpoon missiles. This silly argument is as stupid as [...]
Running Cars On Water
Sunday, August 30th, 2009by Marci Young The market is screaming with all types of trinkets that are ready for you to get better gas mileage. Many claim that you don’t even need gasoline to run a car. As gas prices rise, ways to replace gas are on the incline. This is so that automakers can turn plummeting sales [...]
An Interview with Paul Everitt, Chief Executive of SMMT
Sunday, August 30th, 2009TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk caught up with Paul Everitt, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) in August 2009 following the announcement in June of the formation of the Electric Vehicle Group - to promote a collaborative industry-wide approach to the development of ultra-low carbon technologies and to help place the UK at the [...]
Watermelons: the car fuel of the future?
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Scientists have suggested making use of 360,000 tons of watermelon left to rot each year by turning them into ethanol, dubbed as the car fuel of the future. Due to their unusual shape or size, 20-40% of watermelons are left on the ground by farmers. Scientists at the US Department of Agriculture in Oklahoma have [...]
Scientists find evidence of vivid iridescent colors in 40 mln-yr-old feather fossil
Sunday, August 30th, 2009A team of paleontologists and ornithologists led by Yale University has discovered evidence of vivid iridescent colors in feather fossils more than 40 million years old. The finding signifies the first evidence of a preserved color-producing nanostructure in a fossilized feather. Iridescence is the quality of changing color depending on the angle of observation, such [...]
