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Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Ever think to yourself, "California and Iceland sure have a lot in common"? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Did you hear the one about the comedian who spent nearly a half-million dollars on solar panels for his garage?
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- Added: Aug 19, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here's a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A German company has developed a way to get more mileage out of junked cars. Of course they have to shred them to pieces first.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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As oil prices rise and supplies decline, interest in wind energy is soaring. But finding sites for wind farms hasn't been a breeze.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:30
Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they've concluded they ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to rep...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Veterinarians made a house call on the world's rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The folks in Broward County, Florida, have long considered themselves on the cutting edge of conservation. Now they're at it again.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Your ship has come in, environmentalists. And it's powered by cleaner-burning, highly efficient, fuel cells.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 1
On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.
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- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What's happening with them these days?
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- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...
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- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
