MIT Study: 200,000 Premature Deaths Caused by Emissions
September 5th, 2013 | by Jo Borrás
After spending over 15 years surrounded by race cars, engine dynos, motorcycles, and loud, angry combustion-engines in general, it was
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New Tech Makes Drinkable Water from Diesel Fuel (Really)
April 19th, 2011 | by Jo Borrás
Water is heavy, requires tons of specialized equipment to transport, and is absolutely mission-critical. A new process, however, aims to "lighten the load" of military water transport by extracting drinkable water from diesel fuel
Eco-Artist Creates 'Puff' Device to Monitor Car Emissions
November 23rd, 2009 | by Michael Ricciardi
Puff (a car exhaust monitoring device) is attached near the exhaust pipe of your vehicle. Its color changes dynamically, visualizing the amount of pollution your car is producing. Green indicates the lowest rate of pollution, red the highest. Karolina Sobecka, the artist/designer of Puff, explains: In this project, design is used as a strategy to explore the overlap between the material and immaterial worlds and spur discussion on the hidden social and psychological mechanisms behind the cultural use of accessories as 'objects to think with'...Amateur Human (the design project's official name) focuses on the environmental issues since we all are inadvertently becoming more eco-conscious whether we want to or not, and these issues seem both overwhelming and ambiguous
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