The blue-hulled vessel would slip by unnoticed on most seas if not for the white kite, high above her prow, towing her to what its creators hope will be a bright, wind-efficient future.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 15, 2011
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Sure, you might get a carpool sticker and a tax break. But if you buy an electric car, will it make much environmental difference?
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 11, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three different dinosaur footprints have been found on a 50 kilo boulder from an Isle of Wight beach, providing evidence of life on a riverbank 130 million years ago.
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2011
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(AP) -- Remember the Cola Wars? Get ready for the Bottle Wars. PepsiCo Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material, which it says bests the technology of competitor Coca-Cola and reduces its potential ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Terrain thought to be ruled by only the largest dinosaurs to inhabit the earth could have in fact been home to dozens of other creatures, ground-breaking research from The University of Manchester has found.
Archaeology
Feb 2, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Doubt has been cast over the only known piece of evidence that large carnivorous dinosaurs once roamed Australia, following new research by The University of Queensland (UQ).
Archaeology
Dec 20, 2010
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Billed as the world's first mass-produced electric car, this month's launch of the Nissan Leaf is expected to send a jolt through an auto industry racing to build greener vehicles.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 2, 2010
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To tally the energy consumption of a city, the usual method is to add up all the energy used by residents -- when they drive their car or turn on the air-conditioning -- plus all the energy consumed by commercial buildings ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 29, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM has delivered a first-of-a-kind hot water-cooled supercomputer to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), marking a new era in energy-aware computing. The innovative system, dubbed ...
Hardware
Jul 2, 2010
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Giving new meaning to the term "server farm," a team of Hewlett-Packard researchers has come up with a plan for combining cow chips and computer chips to build an environmentally friendly data center -- powered by manure.
Energy & Green Tech
May 19, 2010
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