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Original Technorati articles tagged “green transportation”

• in Green
  Get Ready for Spring with a Bamboo Bicycle
  Get around on two wheels in style
  by yihyeewong / on Mar 10, 2011
• in Green
  Electric Two-Wheel Vehicles
  Bikes, scooters, motorcycles
  by yihyeewong / on Jun 11, 2010
• in Green
  Community Biking
  All things bike
  by yihyeewong / on Jun 11, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “green transportation”

 

• Flying Helicopter Bicycle Hybrid Takes Inaugural Test Flight

  
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  If you’ve ever dreamed of levitating out of traffic when cycling to work, your dreams may soon come true. Three Czech companies have joined forces to develop a helicopter/bicycle hybrid, complete with giant propellers that hover above the front and rear wheels. Although the bike isn’t quite ready to carry a ...
  4 days ago

• Clip-Air: Modular Transportation Capsules Carry Passengers by Land, Sea, or Air

  
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  The layout of a train is a lot like an airplane or a bus in terms of packing a lot of people into a tube to move them somewhere else. So why not just load people into a train and then slap some wings on it to get it to its destination? That’s the idea behind École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ‘s ...
  5 days ago

• Annual Electric Vehicle Symposium Highlights Early Success

  
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  For electric vehicles, its only the beginning. That was the takeaway at last weeks third annual EVsymposium in Palo Alto, hosted by SAP and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group .More than 250 people attended ,  and plug-in vehicles of several models filled the parking lot outside,including a Ford Fusion, Tesla ...
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• FAA Wants to Move Away from Leaded Gasoline by 2018

  
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  Photo via Shutterstock Sometimes it seems like air transportation is the last to catch up with energy innovations. Busses, cars and trains regularly run on a variety of green options. But airplanes, with a few exceptions , still run on good old-fashioned – and toxic – leaded gasoline. So the FAA request on ...
  6 days ago

• Rejecting Keystone Means Less Tar Sands Extraction, Less Carbon Pollution

  
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  The U.S. State Department has stated multiple times that tar sands oil will find a way to reach global markets even without the Keystone XL Pipeline. That argument was based on the State Departments assumption that other options for transporting the heavy tar sands, including rail, will take the place of the pipeline ...
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• Amazing Infographic Shows Where the World’s Greenhouse Gases Come From

  
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  It’s hard to keep track of all the greenhouse gases that are steadily collecting in the atmosphere – from auto emissions and coal plants to methane emissions from cattle and landfills. Fortunately, Ecofys has created an easy-to-understand infographic that breaks down the source and sector of the ...
  1 week ago

• Peter Ruge Archtiekten Unveils the Green Health City Prototype Master Plan for China

  
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  The Green Health City, designed by Berlin-based Peter Ruge Archtiekten , is a master plan spread across five island districts located in China’s Hainan Province. The city, with a design system based on the concept of “fives”-five elements, organs, senses, islands and rings, aims to promote the condition of ...
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• Cool Planet Energy’s Carbon Negative Biofuel Costs Just $1.50 Per Gallon

  
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  In a warming world, every gas-powered vehicle contributes to CO2 emissions. California-based Cool Planet Energy not only believes they have a low-cost alternative to gasoline, but one that is actually carbon negative . They have developed a biofuel that is chemically identical to gasoline, but costs only $1.50 a ...
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• Tokyo’s Eco-Cycle Park Bicycle Elevator Stores 144 Bikes Underground

  
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  Tokyo’s underground bicycle storage system looks more like an elaborate mechanism from a sci-fi movie than a parking lot for cycles. Put into motion with a single push of a button, the Eco Cycle Anti-Seismic Underground Bicycle Park, built by Japanese engineering firm Giken Seisakusho Co. LTD is just seven meters ...
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• Infographic: The Real Emissions of Your Electric Car Will Depend on Where You Live

  
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  We’re not exactly sure why, but people love a good myth about clean-tech— e.g. making solar panels uses more energy than they generate, or wind farms actually increase emissions. The most fashionable of late is that producing and charging electric vehicles means heavy carbon emissions . So is it true? In a recent ...
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• The Wheel of the Future is Here and It’s Shaped Like a Cube

  
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  It only took a few thousand years, but someone has finally reinvented the wheel —and it actually works better than the original. Skateboarder David Patrick’s crazy SharkWheel was discovered by chance while he was creating a cube out of six soft pieces of piping. Patrick dropped the cube by accident, and to ...
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• Giant Solar-Powered Geodesic Robot Walks Into our Nightmares on 12 Crab-Like Legs

  
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  Welder Scott Parenteau has created a gigantic geodesic dome that walks about on 12 creepy crab-like legs! Parenteau’s spider-like “ Walking Pod ” is powered by a wind turbine and a roof-mounted solar panel , which help support the 800 watts of power needed to move the machine. Read the rest of ...
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• Standing Up for Clean Air in Delaware

  
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  The Delaware City Refinery I am not an American. I have never been to Delaware before. I do not own a car. Whether the Delaware City Refinery is granted its Title V air permit or not has very little effect on my life. Why, then, did I go to the hearing for the Title V air permit application by the Delaware City ...
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• US Navy to Use Low-Emission Switchgrass Fuel to Power Fighter Jets

  
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  Photo via Shutterstock With ambitious long-term energy goals, US Navy is at the forefront of alternative energy use and energy efficiency. Now, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has partnered with Cobalt Technologies , the U.S. Navy and Show Me Energy Cooperative in order ...
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• Ultra-Compact Musguard Bicycle Fender Rolls Out to Save Your Seat on Rainy Days

  
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  Bicycles are one of the world’s most efficient modes of transportation – but ride one in the rain and you’ll wind up with a soggy seat as the rear while kicks up a steady stream of water. Enter the Musguard – a clever rolling fender that can be carried wrapped around your bike’s frame or stored in a ...
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• Report Back: Tuesdays Delaware City Refinery Public Hearing

  
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  On Tuesday, June 4, I attended my first public hearing at the Delaware City Fire House to discuss the renewal of the Delaware City Refinerys Title V Clean Air Act Permit , a motion that would allow the refinery to incorporate the permits for new units - units that were built to accommodate oil from tar sands - into ...
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• 1,300 MPG Student-Designed Ultra-Light Car Runs on a Tiny Lawnmower Engine

  
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  Students at Brigham Young University in Utah have designed a car that needs only one gallon of fuel to travel the distance from Utah to Michigan. The fish-shaped car—which weighs less than 100 pounds and can reach an astounding 1,300 miles per gallon—will participate at this year’s SAE Supermileage ...
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• Delaware Activists Speak Out for Clean Air

  
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  On Tuesday night, hundreds of Delaware residents near the Delaware City Refinery spoke out at a public hearing about the air permit for the facility as it plans to refine tar sands oil. Sierra Club Media Intern Kristen Elmore put together a great short video about the hearing. PBF Energy Delaware City Refinery ...
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• German Scientists Create Lithium Ion Battery that Can Charge an Electric Car for 27 Years

  
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  Scientists at Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wurttemburg (ZSW) have developed one of the most efficient lithium-ion batteries yet. The super lithium-ion batteries could be used in electric vehicles and as solar power storage systems — and in an electric car they will retain 85% of their ...
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• Japan’s New 310 MPH ‘Floating’ Maglev Bullet Train Hits the Tracks for Testing

  
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  Japan is working on a blazing fast 310 mph maglev “floating” train – and the latest prototype just hit the tracks for testing! This week Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Central) unveiled the top-of-the-line Lo series maglev train, which is currently slated to enter commercial operation between Tokyo and Nagoya ...
  1 week ago

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