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Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated…
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Car companies say that flex-fuel vehicles reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But how do they measure up where the rubber meets the road?
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. But is there a way to capture the carbon ...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven’t! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Hybrid vehicles on a wall socket: The next “plug-and-play” technology? We might have an answer soon.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
With wind turbine blades approaching 90 feet in length whipping around at 150 miles an hour, they’ve been called everything from “raptor-matics” to...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It turns out that one of the world’s top Earth Friendly getaways is the Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
To anyone who’s ever gone skinny-dipping in a pond, the green stuff floating on top is really disgusting. But to Professor Dave Bayless, blue-green...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s something that probably won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But maybe it should be since it could impact more people than anyth...
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s some good news for Japan's landfills. Piles of scrapped cars are becoming a thing of the past.
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
Does it really pay to be energy-efficient? The folks at Clarum Homes hope so.
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company.
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- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
So, what's so great about fossil fuels, anyway? Well the truth is, they burn easily, so they're handy for powering internal combustion engines or e...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you'd just leave it in the yard -- let the world know that somebody imp...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Probably the last place you'd expect to see a photo I.D. would be in the wilds of India -- featuring a photo of a male Asian elephant no less. But ...
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- Added: Nov 28, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
