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Gas prices through the roof? Trust a practical country to come up with a practical solution. From the Times of India: The engines of the buses have been tuned to allow a maximum speed of 60 km only, an official said here on Wednesday. The tuning of the engines would give 0.40 km mileage per [...]

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A California company called LS9 says it has done the impossible: come up with cheap, homegrown, renewable “carbon-negative” oil to satisfy the world’s growing fuel needs. With bug poo. From the Times: To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs -– very, very small ones –- so that when they feed on agricultural waste [...]

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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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That beast up there is Tokyo’s subway map (click the map for a larger image), and it scares the bejeesus out of me. According to Infoplease, it provides 2.6 billion rides each year, and is over 281km long. Tokyo’s subway is by no means the longest though — the Beijing network, pictured below, is set [...]

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