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Posts Tagged ‘hybrid’
Science & Technology, Weird & Wonderful, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 17th, 2010,
I was recently at the national park in Białowieża, Poland where I saw a zubron, a hybrid between European Bison and domestic cattle. Like their North American counterparts, the ‘beefalo’, zubrons were first bred for hardiness and size. The hulking beasts proved to be more disease resistant, easier to care for, and due to their enormous size, provided more meat than either cattle or bison. But for whatever reason, they never really caught on. Man-made animal hybrids have a way of not flourishing. Mules – the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse – are sterile, aside from…
Tags: animals, bison, cattle, horse, hybrid, mules, New York Times, wild, zebra, zubron
Business, climate change, Feb 11th, 2010,
While everyone’s no doubt heard that 2010 is the year electric cars are to debut in the United States, it hasn’t happened yet. So for now, at least, the greenest cars on the market are still Honda’s natural-gas powered Civic GX and hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic. –Balitmore Sun As we wait for the ‘year of the electric car’ to get in gear and plug in hybrids like the Chevy Volt and the fully electric Nissan Leaf to whirr onto the market, we still look to that old standard hybrid, the Toyota Prius to lead the way…
Tags: 10, 2010, car, Civic, electric, emissions, environment, Green, greenest, GX, honda, hybrid, list, natural gas, NGV, polluting, Prius, top, Toyota, vehicle
Business, climate change, Sustainable living, Feb 3rd, 2010,
Will 2010 be the year when we all shed our fossil fuel addiction, become vegans and take to the streets in silent, shiny new plug-in electric cars while Enya lilts – at a reasonable volume, of course – through the vehicles’ stereo systems? I doubt it, but there is certainly an electric buzz about this new decade and it’s not just coming from all those new wind farms which seem to be popping up all over place, destroying rich people’s views. According to an article in the Christian Science Monitor, more and more Americans want plug-in hybrids, like the Chevy…
Tags: car, Christian Science Monitor, Economist, electric, electric cars, hybrid, Nissan Leaf, plug-in, plug-in hybrid, Volt
Business, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 2nd, 2010,
I came across this video of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson claims that and explains why the supposedly eco-friendly hybrid Toyota Prius car is more environmentally damaging than a high performance car like the BMW M3 or a fuel monster SUV. Although the Top Gear crew is known for being over-the-top critical sometimes, I have to admit that I, like everyone else I guess, tent to forget that CO2 emissions of cars (and of all other products for that matter) should be calculated starting at the creation of the product and not – as is too often the case –…
Tags: BMW M3, electric car, hybrid, Jeremy Clarkson, Prius, Top Gear, Toyota
Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 24th, 2010,
Flowers have been used in a number of environmental projects over the past year. Toyota created 2 new species of plants to help offset their emissions. France is planning on adding a bunch of nectar-bearing flowers along their roadsides to help honey bees. Now, there is a project turning towards a giant amongst flower-kind: the sunflower. The idea behind the Genomics of Sunflower project is the crossbreeding of a standard sunflower with the Texas Silverleaf species (one that grow up to 15 feet tall), thus creating a hybrid that will produce a vast number of edible seeds and also have…
Tags: DNA sequencing, ethanol, flowers, genome, Genomics of Sunflower, hybrid, plants, project, study, sunflowers
