Fully electric vehicles to become widely available in Canada by 2012: automakers

Chevy Cruze Offers 40 MPG for Under $19,000
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Electric vehicles becoming much more viable
Critics of electric vehicles maintain the technology is too expensive and too limited to ever make EVs as practical as vehicles using petroleum products for fuel.

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Google to give private Wi-Fi data to European regulators
Google will begin handing over private data mistakenly gathered from wireless Internet connections to European regulations within the next two days, the Financial Times reported Friday.

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UV Nail Lamps Safe for Skin, According to CND
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – 06/03/10) – From commanding a steering wheel in the car to working under fluorescent lights, hands get more UV exposure from natural and artificial light than any other part of the body. Claims based on a study of two woman have surfaced that UV nail lamps can put users at risk for skin cancer. According to extensive research by nail industry leader CND , UV light …

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Fully electric vehicles to become widely available in Canada by 2012: automakers
TORONTO – Fully electric vehicles should be widely available to Canadian consumers within two years, with offerings in the pipeline from Nissan, Ford, Toyota, Mitsubishi and others, automakers say.

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When will Honda’s new hydrogen-powered car be available, and what will it cost?

I heard that it’ll be available late in 2008, but I wanted to know for sure. If my car makes it another year, and if their H2 car is affordable for me, I will definitely be lining up to buy one.

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If hydrogen powered automobiles became available this year, would you drive one?

As an alternate fuel source, hydrogen has great potential. It is present in unlimited quantities in our atmosphere, it burns clean and leaves only water as a result of combustion. One of the current deterents against hydrogen is that it takes a large volume of gas to power a vehicle for long distance trips. Hydrogen is not easily compressed so the volume of the fuel tank in your vehicle is prohibitive for a small to medium car.

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Queen’s University professor’s chemistry discovery may revolutionize cooking oil production
( Queen’s University ) A Queen’s University chemistry professor has invented a special solvent that may make cooking oil production more environmentally friendly.Philip Jessop, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, has created a solvent that — when combined with carbon dioxide — extracts oil from soybeans. Industries currently make cooking oils using hexane, a cheap, flammable solvent that …

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Teamsters Local 174, garbage truck drivers, vote to authorize a labor strike
Teamsters Local 174 voted today to authorize a strike that would affect Maple Valley, Covington, Black Diamond and the surrounding area.

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Milton school building will be gold standard of green
WEST MILTON — Kim Dohrman jokes that she and her family are on the “freak level” when it comes to recycling and being good stewards of the environment.Not only do the Dohrmans recycle aluminum cans, paper and cardboard at their Williams Drive home, they reuse the wax paper bags in cereal boxes to cover food dishes in the microwave. They’ve also constructed a 300-gallon rain harvesting system for …

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Halliburton Hunts New Bacteria Killer to Protect Shale-Gas Boom
March 29 (Bloomberg) — Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger Ltd., trying to forestall a regulatory crackdown that would cut natural-gas drilling, are developing ways to eliminate the need for chemicals that may taint water supplies near wells.

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Alternative Fuel Types – 4 Great Alternative Fuels Currently Available

With pollution an increasingly important concern as worldwide energy consumption continues to rise, research into alternative fuel is at an all time high. Here are some of the currently available alternative fuels, and what’s still to come.

1. Alcohol Fuels

Probably the most widespread alternative fuel is ethanol. Ethanol is just plain old grain alcohol, made from corn or soybeans. There aren’t very many vehicles at the moment that can run on pure ethanol. Most of the time, what is available are ethanol blends, which is just ethanol blended with varying percentages of gasoline. At this time, the highest percentage available is 85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline.

Methanol is also used, but is not as common as ethanol. Methanol is also called wood alcohol, and can be produced from wood fermentation or from coal, but is usually made more cheaply from natural gas.

2. Natural Gas Fuels

Another alternative fuel is natural gas. This petroleum-based gas burns more cleanly than gasoline, but still suffers from the renewability problems of all petroleum products. It is also an actual gas, unlike liquid propane, and thus suffers from storage issues. Propane is the alternative, and is a liquid when stored, but still suffers from renewability problems.

3. Electricity

Electricity is the focus of much research, because it is not tied (from the consumers point of view) to any particular fuel source and produces zero emissions at the vehicle. This shifts the burden of utilizing cleaner, often harder-to-handle fuels, away from the average end user and into the hands of organizations with the resources to safely handle the alternative fuels. The main problem with using electricity is, again, storage. Current batteries often require large banks to provide enough power for reasonable speeds and distances. For this reason, electricity is still more often found in “hybrid” vehicles that use petroleum products to generate extra electricity when needed.

4. Hydrogen – The Holy Grail of Alternative Fuels

Hydrogen is the most promising alternative fuel source currently under development. It is extremely clean, producing only water vapor as an emission, and is one of the most abundant elements on the planet in the form of water. All that is needed to produce hydrogen is a source of electricity to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The biggest drawback is that hydrogen is only liquid at extremely low temperatures, and extremely explosive when mixed with air in gaseous form. These characteristics make hydrogen hard to safely store and transport, especially in an end-user safe fashion.

These are only a sampling of the various types of alternative fuels available or under development. With petroleum prices skyrocketing, pressure to develop an alternative fuel fit for mass consumption is at an all-time high. Many other possible alternative fuels are being developed and studied every day. In the end, the mass use of these fuels will result in an overall better quality of life on this planet.

will the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle ever hit mainstream? if so, when will they become commercially available?

is a concerted effort being made to push through development of a car that emits WATER as it’s waste product? Wouldn’t this solve alot of problems if it were widely used? how stable is using hydrogen as a fuel source? I keep seeing glimpses of commercials and reading snipets of info on such a vehicle, but do you think it will ever become a functional reality?

Recycled Promotional Gifts – Large Varieties of Designs Available

The markets across the globe are filled with recycled promotional gifts. Due to environmental concerns, more and more people are using recycled products and therefore there has been an upsurge in the demand of recycled items. Due to increased demand, there are large varieties of eco-friendly recycled promotional gifts available in the market. Go to any gifts shop and you will find many varieties of recycled products which can be used as promotional products. You have recycled paper bags, recycled pencils and  many other useful products which are manufactured with recycled materials. The large varieties of recycled promotional gifts offer an opportunity to companies to promote their products through recycled promotional gifts.

Due to the availability of many varieties of recycled products, companies are increasingly using them as promotional gifts for their customers.  At Ideasbynet, our online shop, we have around hundred varieties of recycled items which are perfect for gifting. Some of the attractive recycled promotional items available in our shop include:-

RECYCLED ECO STICK PENS- A low cost but useful promotional item! If that’s what you are looking for then pick eco stick pens for your customers. A ball pen manufactured with recycled card barrel make them more special. The pens are available in a wide range of colours and these recycled promotional stick pens are perfect for effective promotions even in a tight budget.
RECYCLED CLASSIC MUGS- Mugs are highly practical gifts. They are used in every home and office. And what could be a better idea than gifting recycled classic mugs  to your clients. The classic mugs are manufactured in acrylic and go a long way in keeping the environment clean. The eco-friendly recycled mugs are beautifully designed and are sure to appeal to your clients,
RECYCLED SPIRAL BOUND ECO NOTE PADS- A perfect gift for everyone, from kids to office-goers. This eco-friendly recycled spiral bound note pads are promotional goof for getting your brands recognised in the market. These recycled note pads are manufactured from recycled paper and is highly useful.
RECYCLED MOUSE MATS- A modern-day gift. Almost every individual works on computers, either at office or at home, and will find these mouse mats very useful. These mouse mats can not only be distributed to retail clients but to corporate buyers as well. These eco-friendly recycled promotional mats are manufactured from recycled tyres.

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What will be the most environmentally friendly car available in the year 3000?

What is the cheepest fuel-efficient new car available in the US?

I am looking for something very fuel efficient (30+ preferred) and very inexpensive (<$15,000). If its a subcompact or hatchback i don’t mind. I have been looking at hybrids, but they seem to be a little too much more expensive for the amout of usage i would give my car (mostly short commutes). Rumors of a new cheep Honda Fit-like hybrid makes me wanna hold off though.

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