Category: Environment

This is exciting news.

Electric passenger cars would solve so many large problems. However, range has been an issue. The best only last for about 150 – 200 miles between charges. A charge on a home charger can take up to 8 hours.

Enter JFE Engineering with an industrial strength charger that can give a small EV an 50% charge in just three minutes. You read that right, five minutes. About the time it takes to get gas.

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If that news wasn’t good enough, hold on. MIT has just licensed battery technology to a private firm. The technology uses carbon nanotubes which can make the batteries store 5 times as much energy as a conventional ultracapacitor.

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More expensive per gallon than gas, bottled water production uses up enough oil to fill up 1 million cars a year. ironically, one third of bottled water in the United States is just filtered tap water. Bottled water typically loses to tap water in purity tests and bottled water loses to tap water in blind taste tests. The best example is Fiji water losing a blind taste test and Fiji water losing a purity test against the tap water of Cleveland.

Almost 2 years ago the New York Times reported on findings from the United Nations that raising livestock is a significant greenhouse contributor. More so than even cars.

Now Time Magazine is joining in with this excerpt from their Global Warming Survival Guide:

Which is responsible for more global warming: your BMW or your Big Mac? Believe it or not, it’s the burger. The international meat industry generates roughly 18% of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions—even more than transportation—according to a report last year from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

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If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to research by the University of Chicago. Trading a standard car for a hybrid cuts only about one ton—and isn’t as tasty.