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On October 26, 2007, the CBC ran a story on the ZENN, a clean, silent, fully electric car made in Quebec. The award-winning car was being sold in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, but had been waiting a staggering 18 months for Canadian safety approvals to come through. Two weeks after the CBC story shamed [...]

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We’ve been hearing a lot lately about alternative energies — particularly biofuels of questionable value like ethanol — but in December a really neat pilot project seems to have passed, for the most part, under the radar. Pacific Gas & Electric, a major player in California’s energy industry, is backing a Canadian-made power plant prototype [...]

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The Vatican has doubled the number of “deadly sins” from 7 to 14, expanding the 6th-century list to include pollution, genetic engineering, accumulating enormous wealth, dealing drugs, abortion, pedophilia and “social injustice.” The move comes as a surprise, and opens up all kinds of movie sequel possibilities for Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. From the [...]

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My buddy’s Fortwo Smart car ain’t got nothing on these puppies. From the Technology Review: At the heart of these vehicles is an omnidirectional robot wheel that the team has developed. The wheel encases an electric-drive motor, as well as suspension, steering, and braking systems. With no engine or mechanical parts between the wheels and [...]

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I’m still a little rankled by the National Post‘s blatant character assassination attempt on David Suzuki – a national treasure, as far as I’m concerned – and its all-out assault on the science behind climate change. So here’s a neat little video put together by Greg Craven, a high school science teacher in Oregon, that’s [...]

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