Foldable Canoe for Survivalists (and others)
There have been some foldable boats on the market but probably none as light (4 kilo) and compact (13 x 23 x 70 centimeters) as this one that can be assembled in about five minutes.
There have been some foldable boats on the market but probably none as light (4 kilo) and compact (13 x 23 x 70 centimeters) as this one that can be assembled in about five minutes.
ULTra PRT (urban light transport – personal rapid transport) battery electric “podcars” have started operations at London’s Heathrow Airport terminal 5.
We are a civilization that ignores or glosses over its past mistakes, the horrors of its history and seems blissfully oblivious to all the terrible dangers that surround us in the present. With all the conflict and war, rapid population growth, dwindling supplies of resources, from water, to food, to energy, and the steadily warming temperature of the atmospheric stew we’re all simmering in, I’m amazed that anyone believes we will have descendents at all beyond a century or two.
The average annual cost of running a Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric vehicle amounts to around $233 a year, equivalent to paying some $0.82 a gallon for gasoline, according to New Zealand’s EECA. EECA undertook the study as part of introducing a consumer label that offers “independent, comparative information on the efficiency and running costs of vehicles,” which, in turn, is expected to help the government meet a long term goal of increasing renewable electricity generation from 74% currently to 90%.
I can’t say I was the one who noticed this, but that’s a pretty cool stat — some new wind turbines (sold today by Vestas) are 300x more powerful than wind turbines sold 15 years ago.
Canadian-based JBI, the developer of Plastic2Oil technology previously reported on this blog, has announced inking a long-term agreement with Georgia-based RockTenn Company to convert mill by-product waste into fuel using JBI’s Plastic2Oil platform.
Nissan’s world wide Leaf sales are now over 10,000 but questions continue to be asked about the technology. In a recently released video Nissan Corporate Vice-President Simon Sproule answers six questions about the Nissan Leaf battery.
I recently got a copy of a utility bill for a Minnesota business that has a 40-kilowatt (kW) solar PV array. I wanted to learn how quickly he’d pay off his array with the electricity savings.
I was shocked.
In an analysis conducted by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the United States had a 72 percent increase in installations of wind energy from the previous year. In the first half of 2011 the U.S. installed 2,151 MW of wind energy compared to 1,250 MW in the same period of 2010.
Two aircraft manufacturers – Boeing and Embraer S.A. – have joined with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have in announcing they will jointly fund a sustainability analysis of renewable jet biofuel made Brazilian sugar cane.