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Often times in the heat of competition, you lose sight of the things that matter. Saving the world is a serious issue, and energy conservation is a subject that should be tackled aggressively. But when you're competing with others in something like Shell Eco-marathon, it is always important to step back and have some fun.
It's obvious to see that the team Timistil from Polytech Lyon in France had fun in mind while designing their car from the paint job! The paint job has characters such as Spongebob, Nemo, and Ariel from different cartoons and Disney movies throughout the car....
At Shell Eco-marathon, many things go into the inspiration behind the design of the cars. One of the most popular things that influence car designers is the culture from their country. I was able to speak with members of the Ubicar 13 crew from Portugal's Universidad de Corilha and talk about the pieces that made up their very unique car.
The car was pieced together with cork (a native Portuguese product), surrounded by coconut, and layered with coconut threads. The makeup of the car is very symbolic of their country, and according to them, very efficient also....
Wind turbines rob each other of energy if installed too closely together. But the world's fastest-growing source of renewable power still has plenty of room for expansion.
The test session was carried out in poor weather with a wet track and a fair drizzle. The practice sessios was therefore primarily used to test the setup of the car and to allow our driver to familiarize herself with both the car and the track....
In the 2012 edition of Shell Eco-marathon, the Danish team DTU Roadrunners and their ethanol powered Urban Concept car Dynamo won their class of the competition for the fourth time in row, with an average fuel consumption equivalent to 611 km/l if driving on ordinary petrol. This year the team and Dynamo are back to attempt to improve on last year's result and push the limits of an ethanol powered car even further. The journey towards this year's Eco-marathon has been both long and interesting, stressful and rewarding....
Work is under way on the world's highest-elevation biogas reactor, in an effort to transform a surplus of human waste on Mount Everest into a sustainable energy source.
Before competing at Shell Eco-marathon 2013 in Rotterdam, the Polyjoule team decided to go to the Educ Eco in Colomiers (France). Here is our story day by day. (See also: "Team Polyjoule 2013: New Car, New Category.")
Day 1
The whole team arrived at Colomiers in the south of France on May 8 for the Educ Eco Challenge. The goal of the team for this race is to drive our new urban concept car CityJoule for the first time, and to be sure that everything in the car is ok....
Sofia Perez is with the Rainforest Alliance, an EarthShare member organization. Here she discusses the importance of forests to biodiversity, and talks about programs her organization has in place to help halt destruction and transform land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. The International Day for Biological Diversity is May 22, 2013.
The word
?biodiversity? is technically a noun, but at the Rainforest Alliance we think
of it as a verb....
Sometimes it is not easy to be the first. Our team at Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University is the first one from Ukraine to build a fuel-efficient car and take it to Shell Eco-marathon. It?s very important for us, citizens of a young state, to convey information about our country, our history, our culture, and our customs to Europeans.
Unfortunately, Ukrainian society has not accepted the idea of caring about the environment and having a careful attitude about the production and consumption of energy yet....
Most of us know how critical coral
reefs are to maintaining the health of our oceans and marine life. But did you
know that humans depend on them, too ? and that by the year 2030, 90% of coral
reefs around the world will be threatened if action isn?t taken to protect them?
One of the most well-known coral reef relationships is the
one between the clownfish and the sea anemone (pictured above)....
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