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Ferrari's F458 Italia In the Flesh, Adorned With LEDs: Beautiful

By John Mahoney Posted on 9.11.2009 6 Comments
Ferrari's latest V8 supercar, unveiled with renderings last week, has now been photographed in carne e ossa. It is unsurprisingly pretty, right down to the grid of LEDs crowning the headlights.

9.26.2009 at 03:55pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

Ferrari does not do "green". Ferrari is about power, speed, and looks! http://cindykolbs.buzznet.com/user/main/
Cars

Ford's Eco-Boost Engine Does More With Less

By Posted on 9.17.2009 2 Comments
It’s the ultimate conundrum of automobile engines: how to add muscle without chugging gas. Ford’s solution is EcoBoost, a new family of turbocharged engines that will be available on 90 percent of Ford’s lineup by 2013—that’s roughly 1.3 million new rides worldwide each year. We recently tested one of the first models out of the gate, the 2010 Lincoln MKT, whose 3.5-liter, twin-turbo V6 cranks out 355 horsepower—more than many larger V8s, including the 4.2-liter in the Audi Q7 SUV.

9.25.2009 at 10:20pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

Alright, I know this model and most of Ford's are at the lower end of the price line, but every other car shown on Pop Sci is pretty cool looking. Granted they are Bugatti's, Audi's, etc. but come on now Ford.. http://profiles.friendster.com/cindykolbs
Cars

Bugatti's 4-Door, Ultra-Luxe Galibier Concept Trumps Veyron in Sheer Ostentation, If That's Possible

By Posted on 9.14.2009 12 Comments
Yep, it's a good time to be one of the haves. Volkswagen-owned Bugatti, maker of the wickedly fast and pricey Veyron, this week unveiled an ultra-luxury sedan for the upmost echelon of car buyers. It's the Galibier, which takes its name from a pass in the Alps traversed during the Tour de France. But does such a machine still have a place in this age of downscaled expectations and environmental responsibility? Before you answer, that's an entirely rhetorical question.

9.25.2009 at 10:18pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

I have liked the looks of all Bugatti's over the years. No difference here, it is absolutely stunning. Now for the price...? http://cindykolbs.hi5.com
Cars

Should Electric Cars Make More Noise?

By Dawn Stover Posted on 9.25.2009 25 Comments
By 2020, one in every five cars sold in the U.S. will be a hybrid electric vehicle. That’s nice for the planet, but bad for pedestrians who can’t hear the quiet vehicles’ approach. Some automakers will equip hybrids with artificial engine sounds, but some drivers say that less noise pollution isn’t such a bad thing. Here, a cheat sheet to the noisemaker debate.

9.25.2009 at 10:15pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

This is an odd dilemma. I see automobile noise as pollution in a way. It doesn't do damage like exhaust, BUT it is still a nuisance. And for very large metropolitan areas, it can sometimes be overwhelming. I don't understand the point that we use all of our senses together to live life and be careful with, and sound is no small thing. Either way, the Karma shown above is one AWESOME car! http://www.propeller.com/member/cindykolbs/
Cars

Compressed-Air Cars Planned for Airport Test, US Launch

By Mike Spinelli Posted on 11.6.2008 15 Comments
The idea of using compressed air to propel a passenger car has been kicking around tech circles for years. Now, Luxembourg's Motor Development International SA (MDI) may have the first viable angle to launching a first wave of air cars: airport transportation. Behold the AirPod, a four-wheel, multipassenger minicar set to be built in Nice, France. It's one of the brainchildren of Guy Nègre, a former aeronautics and Formula One engineer who's been messing around with compressed-air technology in passenger cars for nearly two decades.

7.29.2009 at 11:30am - Comment by suzyjenkins

I have always been excited about using compressed air to power vehicles, but i'm seeing more and more that it will probably only be a small niche market powering very small, light cars only. http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/jennlohn
The Environment

Green Gadgets? Not So Much

By Catherine Schwanke Posted on 2.25.2009 5 Comments
Bad news, tech lovers. IT is not so eco-friendly. According to University of Calgary researcher Richard Hawkins, digital technologies are not reducing our environmental footprint, but may in fact be turning us all into polluters. "It was once assumed that there was little or no material dimension to information technology, thus, it should be clean with minimal environmental impact," says Hawkins. "However, we are finding that reality is much more complicated."

7.14.2009 at 04:13pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

In the late 70's/early 80's it was thought that paper waste would drop drastically due to computers. The opposite happened, thanks to printers. There was more paper waste than ever. At least today there are a lot of recycling programs for paper. Today, our electronic gadgets are designed to be thrown away once they are broken. It is not cost affective to fix a cd/dvd player when you can buy a new one for $20. http://www.librarything.com/profile/johnmorgan
The Environment

Dispatch from Copenhagen: Is the Financial Crisis Saving the Planet?

By Seth Fletcher Posted on 3.12.2009 6 Comments
An interesting theme has begun to emerge in Copenhagen: that the financial crisis might end up saving the world. Sure, it's painful now, this line of thinking goes, but it gives us a chance to build a low-carbon global economy that we might not have had otherwise. And in the meantime, greenhouse-gas emissions could fall sharply as a result of depressed economic activity -- factories closing, less driving, less flying, and so on.

7.14.2009 at 04:11pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

I think the #1 thing we can do right now is to reduce energy use by insulating. Insulating all homes properly can drastically cut our energy use, and there are many things we can make insulation out of that used to be waste (denim, etc.) http://www.opednews.com/author/author37016.html
The Environment

Into the Blue

By Posted on 3.13.2009 3 Comments
Boldly going where no man has gone before doesn’t take a spaceship—just a big boat and powerful sonar equipment. We know the altitude of every mountain and canyon on Mars, but 95 percent of the world’s oceans—including huge swaths of submerged land that the U.S. claims as sovereign territory—remain totally unexplored.

7.14.2009 at 04:04pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

And studying the ocean floor with CIA black funding would be bad because...? At least they are not spending it on secret killing programs and such if they are doing this. Which I can say that this is not funded by a military/CIA program. http://30boxes.com/user/7995738/JohnMorgan
The Environment

The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases

By Stuart Fox Posted on 3.17.2009 11 Comments
Despite all the talk about carbon capture, carbon footprints and carbon trading, carbon dioxide only causes nine to 26 percent of the greenhouse effect. That means that the majority of warming results from gases with a much lower media profile than the paparazzi-trailed starlet of global warming, CO₂. In honor of last weeks’ report in the Journal of Geophysical Research, which identified a brand new greenhouse gas, PopSci.com counts down the gases that bring us bikini weather in Antarctica and beachfront property in Montana.

7.14.2009 at 04:01pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

windracer24, Did you read the whole article? MAYBE, just maybe, it was a teaser for the #1 greenhouse gas, water vapor. Let's hope at least. http://community.elgg.org/pg/profile/johnmorgan
The Environment

Poo Power

By Molika Ashford Posted on 3.18.2009 9 Comments
Poo is powerful stuff. That’s cow poo to be exact, though scientists say other animals' waste could also be used as an environmentally friendly energy source. 121 facilities in the U.S. are already turning their manure into electricity, and a report from the university of Texas says that the total potential across the country from existing cows could potentially serve 3% of our national energy use. And, a new bill was recently proposed asking for tax incentives for even more biogas production. This poo power stuff is really catching on. If you're still finding it hard to visualize the transition from cow pies to flickering light bulbs, we delve into the poo-power basics here in graphic exposition.

7.13.2009 at 05:45pm - Comment by suzyjenkins

This seems to be just a way for large farm corporations to justify their thousands of tons of feces being stored. http://www.naymz.com/search/john/morgan/2678516