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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car." Actually, it was a prototype displayed once at a ...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.
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- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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There’s a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business. Eben Bayer, a recent graduate...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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In rural India, electricity is scarce. About 70 percent of rural areas have no electricity, so most families use kerosene lamps for light. These a...
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
We recently aired a story about Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs -- called CFLs -- which were described as environmentally friendly alternatives to ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Some of us have built our own units. You can too!
- Added: Jul 08, 2010
- Length: 01:42
New Orleans. Home to Dixieland Jazz, Mardi Gras, and some of the best fresh seafood you’ll ever eat. Shrimp etouffee. Oysters on the half shell. Wh...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill?
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she’s got gas. Lots of it. Specifically, carbon dioxide.
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- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to turn...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s no news to anyone that Hurricanes’ can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that i...
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
“Thermal depolymerization.” No, it’s not a code word for ‘global warming.’ But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
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- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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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: May 27, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated… Think sixties hippie culture meets Star Trek, and you end u...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What do you get when you cross a whale with a ship? A disaster at sea.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. We all should ditch incandescent light bu...
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- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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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: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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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?
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Britain's Navy, it was once said, ruled the waves! Someday the island nation hopes to command its tides, and generate clean electricity.
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
