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 Compressed-Air Powered cars could take you over 800 miles on a single fill-up, at speeds of up to 96 mph. They should refuel in less than 3 minutes, and at speeds over 35 mph emit about half the CO2 of a Toyota Prius. Best part? You could see them in the US at the end of next year.

An Air Car You Could See in 2009: a MPG Compressed-Air Hybrid --Gas 2.0

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Device Could Help Stretch a Gallon of Gas
Thermoelectric material could recycle energy lost through exhaust pipe. --Reuters

 

Are We Heading for a Human-Powered Future?
Would you still watch your favorite television program if you had to cycle for an hour before you could view it? --CNN

 

Green Concept Cars That Are Waaaaay Out There
Gallery: flights of fantasy carrying auto design into the future. --Wired

 

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106 mpg 'Air Car' Creates Buzz, Questions

by A. Pawlowski, CNN

 

You've heard of hybrids, electric cars and vehicles that can run on vegetable oil. But of all the contenders in the quest to produce the ultimate fuel-efficient car, this could be the first one to let you say, "fill it up with air."

That's the idea behind the compressed air car, which backers say could achieve a fuel economy of 106 miles per gallon.

Plenty of skepticism exists, but with many Americans trying to escape sticker shock at the gas pump, the concept is generating buzz.

The technology has been the focus of MDI, a European company founded in 1991 by a French inventor and former race car engineer.

New York-based Zero Pollution Motors is the first firm to obtain a license from MDI to produce the cars in the United States, pledging to deliver the first models in 2010 at a price tag of less than $18,000...

 

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Scotland Could Boost Hydropower by 50 PCT - Study

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Reuters, 2 September 2008 - Scotland has potential to raise hydropower capacity by about a half, helping Britain cut greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate global warming, a new study showed on Tuesday.

The Scottish government said the study by the Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland showed there were still 657 megawatts of financially viable small scale hydroelectricity schemes to exploit.

This equals around half the amount of installed hydro capacity in Scotland and could power about 600,000 homes, it said.

Britain's hydropower industry is hunting for scarce locations to build dams while the government focuses on wind and nuclear power in its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions...

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Paintless Car Saves Energy
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Energy can be saved in surprising places, but let’s meander a bit first

If you own a new car, built in the last decade or so, take look around the wheel wells or perhaps the door sills. You might see pieces of clear plastic film adhered to the bodywork. If you have them they’re put there by the manufacturer to protect the paint in that area from scuff marks or stone chips. The plastic film is a lot tougher than paint is.

That plastic film might make you wonder. If a stone resistant film can be applied to a few small areas why not the same film to protect a whole car? And why only in clear plastic? Why not in colors?

According Soliant, of Lancaster, South Carolina, the film could be applied to whole cars and in an infinite number of color options, including two-tones, metallics, pearlescents, special effects and finishes including chrome and brushed chrome. Soliant says it can match any color car makers throw at them. Cars wouldn’t have to be painted, just a snazzy film applied, including graphics. Why don’t the big car companies do this? Stubbornness. Slow to change. Huge investments in assembly-line paint shops that they don’t want to scrap...
 

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Mimicking Nature: Power Generating Artificial Trees
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If there’s a problem with solar energy, it’s that it takes up too much space, too much surface area, too much real estate for the amount of power produced. For a solar power plant to generate a significant amount of electricity – perhaps hundreds of megawatts – to compete with a conventional power plant vast acreage is needed. Land costs money; money that adds to the cost of solar energy being generated. The cost, or value, of real estate on which to build large solar systems may limit the construction of large scale solar power plants to areas where real estate is cheap, or to roof tops where a solar system’s footprint can be only as large as the area of the building.

Manmade solar technologies need, mostly, direct sunlight to work optimally, which is why they need so much space; Solar needs a direct view of the daytime sky, as it were. Solar doesn’t work so well in the shade.

But that’s manmade solar devices. Nature has its solar devices too, we call them plants. While plants don’t convert sunlight to usable electricity, they do use the energy in light to convert water and air into cellulose, the structure of the plant. This is considerable work in itself...
 

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