Al Gore’s Office.jpg

Al Gore’s Office.jpg

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Wow, love the screens, but can anyone really work in an office with THIS much stuff? Talk about piling!

Pant-ripping sillyness

New Solar Technology from New Zealand

New solar cells developed by Massey University don’t need direct sunlight to operate and use a patented range of dyes that can be impregnated in roofs, window glass and eventually even clothing to produce power.

The Air Car Becomes a Reality

How noisy would the world be powered by these?

By Chris Russell

The MiniC.A.T Air Car has been in development by Moteur Development International (MDI) for the last 14 years, resulting in an engine which will run on thin air. Understandably, MDI say this “could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century”.

The engine runs on compressed air and, with a single charge, will deliver 2000km worth of pollution free travel- although this assumes you’re driving under 60km/h, once you go faster than that you’ll start to burn fuel. Nonetheless, at speeds above 60km/h the car still produces less pollutant than your average.

Quite literally not a car for the petrol head then, but it sounds like great news for the environment. Just don’t tell Gordon Brown, lest he starts taxing us for air in the next budget!

No idea when the car will be released, but it could cost as little as £5,500 according to Metro

Landmark carbon limits plan for UK

In its draft Climate Change Bill, the Government said carbon dioxide emissions had to be cut by at least 60 per cent by 2050, set out five-year carbon budgets to reach the target and created an independent monitoring committee to check annual progress.

Prime Minister Tony Blair put climate change at the top of the international agenda when Britain was head of the Group of Eight industrialised nations in 2005 and it could now become the first nation to limit emissions by statute.

…The draft bill will go to three months of public and parliamentary consultation before becoming law next year, but green campaigners want to raise the 2050 target to 80 per cent and set annual three per cent cut targets to ensure compliance.

…The Kyoto Protocol is a global pact on tackling carbon gas emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport that scientists say will boost average temperatures by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century.

Pet tiger tears off woman’s arm

A pet Siberian tiger tore off a woman’s arm who was trying to feed the animal at a family farm in Montenegro today, a hospital official said.

Slavka Sekulovic, whose son keeps two of the rare animals at the property near the coastal town of Sutomore, was attacked by one of them during feeding, said doctor Zoran Srzentic.

The woman was brought to the hospital in “extreme traumatic shock, losing lots of blood,” Srzentic said.

Apple may turn to RFID tags for easy Wi-Fi setup

Apple Inc. may turn to RFID tags to simplify Wi-Fi networking of its next-generation Mac and consumer electronics devices, a recent patent filing has revealed.

The filing, titled simply “RFID network arrangement,” describes a system in which a router — such as an AirPort Extreme Base station — would hold an RFID transceiver containing all of the network’s configuration information, including authentication and encryption keys.

When an Wi-Fi-enabled electronics device containing a synchronized RFID tag — essentially a small hardware patch — comes within range of the router, the RFID transceiver would automatically transfer the necessary configuration info to the RFID tag without prompting the user to perform software setup.

As Apple notes in the filing, the wireless devices would not need to be turned in order for their RFID tags to communicate and synchronize with the RFID transceiver. Instead, authentication information could be exchanged through the use of passive RFID tags or help from a separate, smaller power supply. As soon as the devices turn on, they’d read the authentication info from the RFID tag an instantly connect to the network.

The filing, which was submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark on September 6th, 2005, and published for the first time on Thursday, adds that RFID network arrangements are particularly useful for devices that lack visual displays and input components, such as the Apple remote.

The Death of Kyoto?

David Suzuki Interview on “The Hour”

Interview with George Stroumboulopoulos on “The Hour”.

Website about hybrid cars

Want a hybrid car, but don’t know which one to get?
GreenHybrid has lots of information.