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POPSTH!NK Ox – A Fully Electric Car Think, with more than 17 years of experience in developing and producing electric vehicles is launching one of its models 'The Ox' in North America. The cars will start selling in the US next year but the actual mass roll out is slated for sometime in 2011,
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POPSNo Traffic? Michigan to Build Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway Michigan to build the country's first Maglev public transportation system: to be constructed between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Interstate Traveler Hydrogen cars will carry people, cars (drive on/off) and cargo. Construction is set to begin this year (2008). Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway? It is a collection of vital municipal utilities bundled into a Conduit Cluster: a public transit network built along the right of way of the US Interstate Highway Systems, and any other permissible right of way where such a machine would be of benefit. It will be a integration of solar powered hydrogen production and distribution with a high speed magnetic levitation ( MagLev ). A Maglev, or magnetically levitating, train is a form of transportation that suspends, guides and propels vehicles (predominantly trains) using electromagnetic force. The first commercial Maglev was opened in 1984 in Birmingham, England.
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POPSCan Geo=Engineering Save the Planet? Seems a bit weird that the human race is talking about plant life in the future as a way of mopping up C)2 while we are destroying the Amazon and Congo rainforests to produce coffe tables and hamburgers.
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POPSUpbeat IPCC report point to an energy revolution. In its third and final key findings, the IPCC panel reports: ■ A cost of $US20-50 a tonne of atmospheric carbon would have a big impact on cutting harmful emissions. "It could lead to a power generation sector with low greenhouse gas emission by 2050." ■ This would allow renewable energy to have a 30 to 35 per cent share of total electricity supply by 2030. ■ Nuclear power would provide only an additional 2 per cent of the world's electricity supply by 2030 because it is too expensive, and "safety, weapons proliferation and waste remain as constraints". ■ Clean coal technology has the potential to make an important contribution by 2030. ■ Improving efficiency of energy supply and use would play a key role in reducing emissions by up to 30 billion tonnes a year by 2030.
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POPSCalifornia and Victoria agree to combat climate change together It has been a long time since I have taken back my unflattering comments about Arnold Schwarzenegger upon becoming the governor of California. Everything he does about global warming confirms my decision. Because he is a Hollywood star - a major one - with a direct line to the electorate, perhaps he does have the cachet needed to short-circuit traditional politics and it's embedded vested interests - like the fossil-fuel industry. He certainly is running counter to the Bush line on global warming and, as we can see by his latest move, he is recruiting like-minded leaders around the world in his campaign to tackle climate change square-on.
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