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  • Energy Savings- Facts and Rumours
    What should we do with our trash? Should we burn it or should we store it in a landfill? Two reasons why storing our trash in a landfill is a better solution, but the third solution is best:

    Date of Article: 29Oct2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Energy Saving ? Looking at Ways to Save Energy in the Home
    Wherever we go we're made to feel guilty for using our cars, and some of us have started using alternative forms of transport in order to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that's being pumped into our air. But did you know that more carbon dioxide, also known as a greenhouse gas, comes straight from our homes than from our cars?
    Date of Article: 24Oct2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Global Warming - Thoughts for the Week
    Why is the second largest producer of CO2 emissions, China, exempt from any of the regulations in the Kyoto Protocol? China's emissions have increased 40% from 1990 to 2003, but because the country was classified as a third world nation and the Kyoto Protocol was never amended to address any rapid industrial development, China gets a free pass.
    Date of Article: 21Oct2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Motor Sports
    So, moving from one extreme to the other, let's take a look at motor sports. Everything that can move seems to be raced these days, from Formula One cars to lawn mowers on steroids, and there's no doubt that such races are incredibly popular.
    Date of Article: 02Sep2008
    Category: Sports & Recreation
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  • Accident Prevention
    Being involved in an accident is every motorist's worst nightmare. Statistically speaking, the longer you drive the more likely you are to have one. It doesn't really take a rocket scientist to work that one out though, does it?
    Date of Article: 29Aug2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • What's New on 'The Motoring Scene'?
    To start with, the price of fuel has gone sky high! But then I'm pretty sure you will have noticed that with so many factors at play in the recent rocket ship ride of oil prices, far be it for me to offer any more sage analysis than what you may already have heard:
    Date of Article: 28Aug2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • Cheap Holiday Fun for Your Family
    Instead of tearing your hair out at the state of the awful weather, or the fact your wallet is really hurting in this horrible climate, financial or climatic, just grab your 'Genie' and let her find your family an economically friendly day of fun for you all. Don't know about Genie? Well then just check her out a genie tutorial for free at geniesearcher.com will get you going!
    Date of Article: 25Aug2008
    Category: Travel & Leisure
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  • Police Cars - What's Special about Them?
    They move fast, they have flashing lights on the roof, and they have sirens that can be heard a long way off. But surely that isn't all that's special about police cars? There's no standard design for these extremely vital and increasingly sophisticated vehicles, and no manufacturer can ever claim to have designed a police car model from scratch.
    Date of Article: 18Aug2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • Some Fun Transport
    It seems that wherever in the world you wander, or even drive for that matter, you'll find the 4x4 - a huge metal beast with a deep growl that shudders the ground as it approaches, scaring away anybody or anything that dares to stray into its path.
    Date of Article: 04Aug2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • Global Warming - Future Floods
    The average temperature of the earth has increased by about 0.6 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. Because of the affect of global warming, scientists predict that the temperature will continue to rise by about 0.3 degrees centigrade per decade - that's 3 degrees over a 100 year period.
    Date of Article: 29Jul2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Global Warming, Hurricanes and Ice
    More Hurricanes caused by Global Warming? Because of the recent events and devastation caused Hurricane Katrina, many notable Scholars, Politicians and Scientists are blaming global warming for the increased activity and strength of hurricanes.
    Date of Article: 28Jul2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Global Warming - Biodiesel and the Kyoto Protocol
    I thought I would chat about some aspects affecting the production of biodiesel. The Kyoto Protocol goes by a number of aliases: The Kyoto Treaty, The Kyoto Accord, or The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
    Date of Article: 19Jul2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Global Warming
    If you're able to use a computer and can read this newsletter, you'll have no doubt heard about global warming.
    Date of Article: 18Jul2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Alternative Energy - Affordability and Availability
    Energy analysts can often jump on the bandwagon and scare people into thinking that we are running out of oil. The only effect this has is to raise oil prices as people become concerned at the perceived threat of a reduce supply increases demand and so opportunists push up prices.
    Date of Article: 09Jul2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Green Fuels - The Facts
    Have you heard about cars that run on peanut oil? Well when Rudolph Diesel invented his engine — the ones we now run on what has become known as 'diesel' (Named after him)— he ran his on peanut oil.
    Date of Article: 08Jul2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • Alternative Energy: Ethanol
    As people look to fuel alternatives, one of the considerations is ethanol. There are many types of bio-fuels out there (that is, fuels that don't rely on limited natural resources), and ethanol is one of the most likely to turn into mainstream fuel.
    Date of Article: 03Jul2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • Alternative Energy
    This technology is still in the growth stage and continues to be considered a viable alternative to fossil fuel consumption. Let's face it, if your auto runs on electricity exclusively, then you are not emitting any gases at all. Environmentally speaking, this is terrific.
    Date of Article: 04Jun2008
    Category: Automotive
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  • Alternative Energy - Biodiesel
    Efforts to find affordable replacements to current vehicle fuel choices, biodiesel has quickly become one of the leading alternatives. Biodiesel is considered a renewable eco-friendly resource derived from vegetable oil or animal fats. Once the vegetable oil or animal fat is processed, it becomes a combustible material, like the petroleum-based diesel currently used today in many vehicles.
    Date of Article: 30May2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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  • Algae Blooms
    Is it a plant? Is it an animal? Algae are very unusual! Algae are microscopic organisms, and are usually considered to be just simple aquatic plants. Pond scum, really. But it may surprise you to learn that some algae display characteristics we would normally associate with an animal. Characteristics like motility and a cell structure more like bacteria than plants.
    Date of Article: 27May2008
    Category: Reference & Education
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