Unless you're moving under your own steam, getting from A to B will always cause pollution. But researchers are focusing on reducing travel's environmental impact. One technology showing promise is superconductors.
They are already being used on a few magnetic levitation trains, where very cold magnets hover over tracks and can reach speeds of more than 240 MPH / 400 kilometres per hour.
For personal travel, a team at the University of Tasmania has created a hybrid scooter that uses a combination of battery power and ethanol fuel. While the approach is not new, the team has developed a system that can be retro-fitted to existing scooters, dramatically reducing fuel consumption and emissions.
It was over two decades ago that architect Michael Reynolds realized green houses needed to be inexpensive, easy to build and environmentally friendly.
Knowing that he needed a product that is always available and would be hard to dispose of, he designed a home built out of used tires.
Construction is simple, but very time-consuming, but what you lose in free time, you make up for in energy savings. Earthship walls absorb heat quickly and release it slowly, allowing the
Unless you're moving under your own steam, getting from A to B will always cause pollution. But researchers are focusing on reducing travel's environmental impact. One technology showing promise is superconductors.
They are already being used on a few magnetic levitation trains, where very cold magnets hover over tracks and can reach speeds of more than 240 MPH / 400 kilometres per hour.
For personal travel, a team at the University of Tasmania has created a hybrid scooter that uses a combination of battery power and ethanol fuel.
If the Oil conglomerates and Governments have their way, consumers will be filling up their Hydrogen Cars at the fuel bowsers, just like we do now.
However, the alternative green method is for a home Hydrogen manufacturing device that allows consumers to create inexpensive Hydrogen via electrolysis.
This concept is a step closer to reality after an EU announcement backing a Europe-wide network of hydrogen filling stations. This is great news as it will eventually wrest the world reliance on oil as it is not a finite resource.