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Burying Greenhouse Gases In A Metal Tomb
You can tell this coal plant is eco-friendly, because it has cool-looking curved surfaces and clean transparent lines. The $1.8 billion FutureGen project just chose Mattoon, IL for its new clean coal plant, which turns coal into gas and separates out the harmful CO2. The plant will bury the CO2 underground, and planners swear it will never get out. We've heard that one before, plus we're bracing for giant mutant groundhogs in a few years. [Chicago Tribune]
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London Mayor Is Eco-Pimp
You'd better have your carbon offsets, bitch, or Ken Livingston will slap you up. The London mayor's shiny cyber-pimp coat is made out of household insulation. He wore it as part of a promo appearance at No. 1, Lower Carbon Drive, a new house on Trafalgar Square which showcases ways for Londoners to reduce their carbon emissions.Image by Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
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The car of the future will have sleek plastic on the outside, but hand-woven seats on the inside. Harsha Ravi's designs for the car of 2017 won Wheels magazine's design prize. They're an awesome mixture of high-tech (cutting-edge carbon-neutral bioplastic) with zero-tech. It's all part of an urban car that's customizeable and cheap, but also green.
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Car Of 2017 Will Mix High-Tech With No-Tech
The car of the future will have sleek plastic on the outside, but hand-woven seats on the inside. Harsha Ravi's designs for the car of 2017 won Wheels magazine's design prize. They're an awesome mixture of high-tech (cutting-edge carbon-neutral bioplastic) with zero-tech. It's all part of an urban car that's customizeable and cheap, but also green.
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