Posts Tagged ‘Pollution’

Electric cars and Global Warming

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Do you think electric cars are less polluting then regular cars. Think again.

The electric car has not come of age, because more than half of the electricity in this country (USA) is currently generated with coal – the dirtiest of fossil fuels.

- Comment in Time Magazine (Oct 13, 2008 issue)

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Ten years later – we may be asking the same question. Again.

Synthetic trees! Can they reverse Global Warming?

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Scientists have made the world’s first synthetic tree: a palm-sized duplication of the elegant process by which trees drink…….

The artificial tree proved capable of transporting water, raising the possibility of applying transpiration mechanisms to the heating systems of buildings or the cooling systems of computers.

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If only this technology can be applied to reverse global warming!

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Reference: Wired, Nature