Saturn Aura is going to be the first hybrid GM is launching on the US market, as a direct competitor for Toyota Prius. Only in 2006, Toyota sold 107,000 Prius units, creating a big popularity of the hybrid.

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Time for our weekly Green QuestionVille round up I hope you can find some interesting questions and answers below and remember if you have a questions register today and ask, it takes 20 seconds to register Popular Questions This Week

Twiceshy asked: Using the Tides…

With all of the plans for alternative energy development, Obama’s [...]

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Wastewater treatment plants are turning to solar power to attain a significant portion of their energy needs. Millions of dollars are being saved by taxpayers and thousands more pounds of greenhouse gases are being saved from entering the atmosphere.
One of the wastewater treatment plants using solar panels is the West County Wastewater District in northern [...]

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After last year’s numerous bans on commercial and recreation salmon fishing in California and Oregon, many are concerned by the latest news. California’s Chinook populations are the lowest ever recorded to date.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council stated that only 66,264 Chinook returned to the Sacramento River basin to spawn. The number includes natural and hatchery [...]

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Right now, it does look like something that would have come out of a science fiction movie. But there is more to just how it looks. The newest solar race car that the MIT has created has got the goods that will make most owners of alternative energy vehicles drool.

The Solar Electric Vehicle Team of the university is the group behind this newest solar race car. They say that this ride can zoom by at speeds of 90 miles per hour. They had spent $243,000 on this one and they call it Eleanor. Just like the vehicle that Nicolas Cage was so afraid of in Gone in 60 Seconds? I don’t know.

But anyhow, George Hansel, one of the members of the solar team, shares, “It drives beautifully. It’s fun to drive and quite a spectacle.” They are working on the vehicle already and testing it because it is going to be taking part at the World Solar Challenge which is a 2000-mile solar race for seven days through Australia.

Source: Wired

Tags: MIT, Solar, Solar Electric Vehicle Team, solar-car, World Solar Challenge

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A new initiative called NEON – the National Ecological Network Observatory program hopes to bring ecological research from the arcane world of researchers to the doorstep of the common man. By 2016, we could see the first flood of data coming through. NEON will connect the existing field stations across the U.S. which are monitoring [...]

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MIT engineers have been developing and are now testing an upgrade to the old bicycle that can be easily installed and that can transform your foot-powered 2-wheeler into a full-electric vehicle (or hybrid, if you use your own force).

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What would a carbon free city look like to you? Well, if you see no cars and a large amount of wind turbines and solar panels, you’re starting to get warm. Creating a carbon free city requires sacrifice and innovative development, which is why one doesn’t exist yet. However, efforts are currently being made to [...]

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Recently, the Discovery Channel had a special on unique ideas regarding how to prevent or lessen global warming. Eight scientists, all respected in their fields, have concocted various ideas as to how to combat global warming.
The scientists have focused on a field which is known has geo-engineering, which is a concern of many environmentalists. Environmentalists [...]

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It seems that a dwindling number of people are holding out against cell phones. Everywhere you look, someone is walking and talking or driving and talking. It is not uncommon to see a combination - someone driving while talking on a cell phone, and conversing with a passenger in the vehicle. Most high school students [...]

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