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Could US and Iranian collaboration realize fusion energy?

Cool as hell! Bombless, wasteless nuclear fusion energy could be brought about by, of all things, a collaborative project between a US company and an Iranian university in Tehran. That's if people like the Bombulan, er, Romulan, er Romnasty & his Booshie posse don't get their way before it happens...and this is NOT your grandfather's fusion project. Read it and weep, Darth Vader & neocon storm troopers!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/26/iranian-team-to-collaborate-with-us-company-on-nuclear-fusion-project/

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Hydrogen vehicle trial hailed a resounding success Aberdeen City The left-hand vehicles were refuelled 18 times in total during the Commonwheels trial, using hydrogen produced by an ITM Power mobile refuelling station at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, using wind power and water, before the cars moved ... See all stories on this topic »

 

Kicking Asphalt - Better World Club News

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IN THIS ISSUE Forward This Email and Save on Your Renewal AAA Watch Top Story Partners Join Now And Save 10% Washington Watch TravelCool Website of the Month Forward This Email and Save on Your Renewal Click here for more details AAA Watch AAA Oregon/Idaho Takes One More Small Step for Bike-Kind We're Still Waiting on the Giant Leap Heck, We're Still Waiting for Real Coverage Beyond Oregon and Southern Idaho Back in 2009, we congratulated AAA's Oregon/Idaho office for following our lead in offering bicycle roadside assistance. They were 6 years late to the party, but hey - at least one region got there eventually. Unfortunately, their bike membership clause looked like it had been hammered out by a team of lawyers who moonlight as accountants. Coverage was limited to Oregon and Southern Idaho, and only Premium members were eligible. As of May 2012, they're allowing Basic members access to their bike assistance - although coverage is still limited to Oregon and Idaho. Two more AAA regions have technically begun offering bike assistance: AAA Mountain West and AAA South Jersey. The catch? It's only available for student members between 17 and 25. It looks like that obfuscation team is still earning its keep. In Oregon and Idaho, cyclists under a Basic plan will be transported: "Back to the station that dispatched transportation service or any point of choice along the direct return route, or to any point of safety within the city of the station providing transportation service, or to any point of safety within a 3-mile radius in Oregon and 10-mile radius in the southern 34 counties of Idaho, of the bicycle breakdown." - Oregon AAA website Got that? Know which county you're broken down in? Know where your tower is going to be dispatched from? Know what a "point of safety" means to the AAA legal team? Neither do we. Read More In The News Tornado Warning by Katey Schultz I flipped the hazards on and powered on my cell to call Better World Club (the eco-friendly, Oregon-based roadside assistance company that offers the same perks and prices as AAA). While the operator led me through the drill, I couldn't help but notice the shifting world around me: prairie grass thrashed about, rippling in violent waves as wind gusts shook the door panels on the Volvo. Rain fell in sheets, blown sideways by the wind. The sky, which moments before had looked enchanting, suddenly appeared forceful, almost magnetic. "Are you in a safe place?" the BWC operator asked me. Looking outside, I had to tell her I wasn't. Complete Story Member Alert We Give Discounts to Transit Users Do you commute via bus, Metro, MAX, BART, or human-sized pneumatic tube? (If the latter, please contact us with details...we've been waiting for one since the 1850s). If your membership is up for renewal, send Better World Club a copy of your monthly mass transit ticket (via email, fax, or postal mail) and we'll take 10% off your bill.		Top Story Wipe Up Your Carbon Footprints With Our New Carbon Calculator It's a Better Response to Climate Change Than Buying a Bunker in Wyoming Now We Feel Silly For Hoarding All Those Canned Beans After a quest that made Frodo's journey to Mordor look like a trip to the grocery store, we have overcome the dark forces of CO 2 to bring you... this. It's an online tool that takes a few facts about your car and turns them into a precise calculation of your total yearly emissions. That might sound more depressing than exciting, but, as they say, the best is yet to come. Our calculator also lets you choose to offset all or part of your harmful emissions, right there on the spot. How does our offsetting work, you ask? We partner with the Greater New Bedford LFG Utilization Project, which diverts the gas formed by landfill decomposition (a 50/50 mix of methane and CO 2 known as landfill gas or LFG) for use as fuel in four specially-designed generators. The generators provide power to the local electrical grid. This process reduces the amount of LFG in the atmosphere and, at the same time, reduces the use of electricity made from fossil fuels. Join the Better World Club offices in being carbon neutral. It makes us feel all warm inside. Just like a big pot of bean chili on a cold day. Complete Story Read Last Edition's Top Story: Better World to Reward Ecologically-Friendly Towing Companies Take Advantage of Your Member Discounts We provide hundreds of discounts for products, services, hotels and car rentals - many of which are green! Click here to log on and take a look. Partners Safe Routes to School National Partnership Better World Club is proud to be part of the movement to increase cyclists and pedestrians' access to federal funding. "Launched in August 2005, the Safe Routes to School National Partnership is a fast-growing network of hundreds of organizations, government agencies and professional groups working to set goals, share best practices, leverage infrastructure and program funding and advance policy change to help agencies that implement Safe Routes to School programs. The Safe Routes to School National Partnership's mission is to advocate for safe walking and bicycling to and from schools, and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of America's children and to foster the creation of livable, sustainable communities." – SRSNP website Looking for coverage for your company's or organization's fleet? Contact us! TravelCool! Need To Get Out Of Town In A Hurry? Try Our Snazzy Multi-Purpose Booking Engine Member Special May is National Pet Month, and Edgar the Better World Club spokes-pug would like to draw your attention to our variety of discounts on pet insurance. We partner with PetPlan, ASPCA, and VPI Pet Insurance so our members can receive 5-15% off their premiums. Log in to the member section of our website to take advantage of the discount. Your Car Insurance Can Be Part of a Better World, Too! Our Green Auto Insurance Includes a Free Carbon Offset. Click here to get a quote.		Join Now and Save 10%! Share This on Twitter and Facebook Washington Watch Government Regulation of Coal Attacked Because Coal is "Cheap" Well, Cheap As Long As You Don't Need Any Help With That Black Lung In early 2012 the EPA introduced a rule to regulate the CO2 output of new power plants constructed in the United States. Power plants account for 40% of CO2 emissions in the US. This graph illustrates the large role coal plays in overall power production, as well as the disproportionately large stake it has in carbon emissions. For the past 10 years coal power has been on the downswing, partly due to decreases in the price of natural gas. Utilities are shutting down coal plants and replacing them with more efficient gas or non-fossil-fuel systems. The proposed limit of 1,000 lbs of carbon per kilowatt hour (kwh) is pertinent mostly to the construction of new coal-powered plants, since on average new natural gas facilities already fall below the limit. There are approximately 25 coal plants in the early stages of development – a relatively small area of concern compared to the 600 or so currently in operation. Environmentalists are critical of the EPA for not doing more to curb inefficiency in existing coal power plants (many of which emit upwards of 2,000 lbs per kwh), and for allowing a handful of partially-constructed plants to continue development without being subject to the new regulation. Some journalists also point out that the changes the rule purports to require are already taking place for economic reasons. Josh Galperin, a blogger for cleanenergy.org, states that "the age of coal is coming to an end because of market forces, not regulations. What this rule can do is make sure that if market forces change, power companies will not try to revive coal." That coal was ever a "cheap" option for power generation reflects one basic marketplace flaw: that industry has never properly accounted for its external costs. While opponents of the EPA's rule cite its potential to damage the economy and destroy jobs, they ignore the effects of coal on the health - and lives - of miners and other workers. Meanwhile, alternative energy companies of all sorts are claiming that they have the potential to create many more jobs - and certainly safer jobs - than coal mining. Read More TravelCool Website of the Month Travel the World's Art Museums Without Leaving Home Many Americans dream of traveling to Europe to view the rich legacy of Western art. Who wouldn't love to walk the echoing halls of the Château de Fontainebleau and gaze at Rosso Fiorentino's renowned mural of a distressingly lumpy elephant draped in cherubs? Unfortunately, being able to afford travel abroad isn't often congruent with our bank accounts. However, the online behemoth Google has taken an interest in art education, and is publishing high-quality digital images from art museums around the world. Not only can you view Fiorentino's mural, but also rock carvings from Australia and woven blankets from South Africa. Check them out here.

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Gas-Guzzlers Will Pay More at This Boston-Area Parking Lot, Greenies Pay Less by Danny King It'll cost you a little more to pahk your cah in this yahd. That's what one Boston parking lot owner is saying to SUV and other gas-guzzler vehicle drivers planning to use a new parking lot near the city's TD Garden, according to the Boston Herald. Dinosaur Capital Partners will adjust pricing at its new Green Park & Charge to account for either particularly good or particularly bad fuel economy. Drivers of hybrids and plug-ins will get a 10 percent discount from the $10 hourly rate, while cars that get less than 15 miles per gallon will be charged an extra 10 percent. Read More Google's Driverless Cars Now Officially Licensed in Nevada by Matt Peckham Nevada's putting a new spin on the idea of "hands-free" driving this week: The state just issued Google its first license for a car that drives itself. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Nevadans can expect to see the ballyhooed driverless vehicles being tested around the state (as, I imagine, can we all in the not distant future, if things go well here). The vehicles utilize intelligent driving software, proximity sensors and GPS data to figure out how to get from one point to another. Read More 10 Cars You Don't Want During a Gas Crisis by Alex Taylor III Gas prices are spiking again - $5 a gallon for regular in Los Angeles - and drivers are predictably up in arms. The obligatory media frenzy is stoking their passions - particularly on local news shows. An easy-to-understand camera-friendly story profiling angry citizens? There's a no-brainer for news directors. Politicians are certainly doing their part to fan the flames. Obama opponents are blaming the president, and some are even promising to bring back $2.50 a gallon gas. Maybe they'll bring back 15-cent McDonald's hamburgers, too. It won't be long before some public servant speaks up and urges the government to open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to spare Americans from laying out more cash for a scarce and diminishing resource. Meanwhile, drivers who confused themselves with Saudi princes and indulged their inner gas-guzzler when fuel was cheap are paying the price at the pump with their weighty rides. Here are some of their most notable offenders. Read More

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Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Turbine Now Powers Hempstead Town's Hydrogen Fuel Station Elmont Community Web Page (blog) The wind turbine, erected in December 2011, currently provides power to Long Island's only hydrogen fueling station. This amazing accomplishment confirms Murray's vision that the answer to clean, renewable energy is truly “blowin' in the wind. See all stories on this topic »

New wind energy project takes root in Hawaii Hydrogen Fuel News By Tami Hood Sempra US Gas & Power, an alternative energy company specializing in wind and natural gas, and BP Wind Energy, an alternative energy branch of British Petroleum, have announced their collaboration on a new wind energy project that will ... See all stories on this topic » Hydrogen Fuel News

 

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Department of Energy issues call for information regarding hydrogen fuel cells Hydrogen Fuel News By Bret Williams The Department of Energy has been taking a great deal of interest in hydrogen fuel recently. The agency, who once held disdain for hydrogen, considers the alternative energy to be a viable replacement for fossil-fuels in certain ... See all stories on this topic » Hydrogen Fuel News

 

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A Wind Turbine Made With Wood Energy Matters by Energy Matters Looking somewhat like a Hills Hoist that has come off second best in a tussle with a tornado, the Hercules wind turbine employs cutting edge technology with old world materials - wood. The Hercules Wind Generator, designed by Italian ... See all stories on this topic » Energy Matters

A wind turbine made with wood eco-business.com By : Energy Matters ENESSERE sees Hercules as much a work of art as a clean energy generator. Image: ENESSERE Looking somewhat like a Hills Hoist that has come off second best in a tussle with a tornado, the Hercules wind turbine employs cutting edge ... See all stories on this topic »

Quantum Provides Insight on Recent Events and Future Direction; Renewed Focus ... MarketWatch (press release) IRVINE, Calif., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ:QTWW) , a global leader in natural gas, hydrogen and hybrid/electric vehicle technologies, is providing an update on the ... See all stories on this topic »

 

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Wind Gusts Fill Hydrogen Tanks Sustainable Business Forum ... a hydrogen production, storage and fuel cell system to the German city of Herten, the Mississauga-based company announced today. Developing the means to manage intermittent electricity generation from wind power farms has been a key challenge for… See all stories on this topic »

 

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Alternative energy exciting The Spokesman Review I don't think Tom Horne (“Wind projects expensive,” May 12) is looking at the bigger picture when it comes to wind power. To be built in the first place, they create high-wage construction jobs. The maintenance cost is more high-wage jobs. See all stories on this topic »

 

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Bristol Hydrogen ferry boat shortlisted for Festival of Ideas Genius Award Guide2Bristol From July Bristol ferry passengers will have the opportunity to make their journeys on a hydrogen powered boat, which has been shortlisted for the Festival of Ideas Bristol Genius Award 2012, to be announced tonight. Hydrogenesis of Bristol is a new ... See all stories on this topic » Guide2Bristol

 

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View it in your browser May 20, 2012 WHAT WE'RE FOLLOWING The Arrest of Captain Paul Watson Coinciding with their mission "to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species," Seattle-based nonprofit group Sea Shepherd strongly opposes shark finning, a practice that kills an… Continue Reading » Eyeless Shrimp and Clawless Crabs More than two years after the blowout on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig killed 11 workers and spilled more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, signs of the spill's devastating impact continue to emerge. Scientists in Minnesota have traced… Continue Reading » FEATURED BLOGS Out of the Closet Cleaning House without Sending It All to the Landfill It's that time of year when we start delving into overstuffed closets and pulling out miscellaneous goods to be separated into piles: storage, trash, donations. When I get into cleaning mode, I'm determined to clear out space and rid myself of clothes and old items I… Continue Reading » IN OUR CURRENT ISSUE A Brewery with a Conscience Mother Earth Brewing Crafts Beer with an Environmental Ethos Only the solar panels on the roof tip off visitors to Mother Earth Brewing's serious environmental streak. The beer company founders, Trent Mooring and his father-in-law Stephen Hill, built a business centered on their lifestyle. "Our goal here is to make the best… Continue Reading » Making Solar Affordable Solar Leasing Is Taking Off—But Does It Make Financial Sense? You would think everyone would want to capture the free energy provided by the sun. Yet since its initial burst in the 1970s, solar energy has spread remarkably slowly, largely due to the upfront cost of solar panels. Just five years ago, installing photovoltaic (PV) panels… Continue Reading » Sustainable Building: Remaking Roads Recycled Roadways Have Become a Reality Commuters in Bellingham, Washington, are now driving on the nation's first Greenroads Foundation-certified roadway. Northshore Drive Road features recycled porcelain from over 400 crushed toilets, asphalt with 30% recycled content, recycled concrete, porous pavements that… Continue Reading » Ocean Food Web Ocean acidification poses grave threats to Krill, plankton, shellfish and corals—the loss of which would impact nearly every ocean creature and shore bird. Continue Reading » EARTHTALK Q&A Lead in Aviation Fuel Dear EarthTalk: Lead was long ago phased out of automobile gasoline, but it is still in aviation fuel and is now the largest source of lead emissions in the U.S. What's being done? —L. Eber, Rye, NY … Continue Reading » Gulf of Mexico After the Spill Dear EarthTalk: I've seen a lot of warm and fuzzy TV ads, some sponsored by BP Oil, urging me to vacation in the Gulf of Mexico. But are things really "back to normal?" —Paul Shea, Dublin, OH … Continue Reading » WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT This content is brought to you free by E-The Environmental Magazine, which is published by Earth Action Network, Inc., a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. Our address is 28 Knight Street, Norwalk, CT 06851. We ask that you: Subscribe to our magazine   Order a Free Trial Issue   Make a tax deductible donation Forward email This email was sent to aquarianm@gmail.com by karen@emagazine.com |   Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. E - The Environmental Magazine | 28 Knight Street | Norwalk | CT | 06851