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Spring and Fall — Fall. Yellow and brick red leaves cling, trembling, to the trees. A gust of crisp wind, and a few are dislodged and scatter to the ground to join the ones that crackle under my feet. It is ten a.m. in New Zealand, and the grass is still coated with dew.  My tennis shoes leave shiny prints on the lawn, ending where I head across the gravel trail. I hear each step, register the crunch of the tiny rocks crushed and spat out from my feet. The air is chilly here in the North Island, twenty degrees or so cooler than... [Tags: clouds, crunch, grass, gravel trail, gust]

Firewinder relies on wind to power up — Want to do your bit in keeping the earth green while decorating your home? Well, there are many ways to do so, including solar-powered fairy lights, solar-powered lawnmowers and the like, and today we have yet another idea for you to consider - the Firewinder. Let’s face it, any product named like it will definitely be interesting to look at, and the Firewinder certainly doesn’t come up short when it comes to looking cool! This decorative outdoor light is able to visualize the wind’s energy, turning just about any breeze into light to give your garden a lovely glowing ambience.... [Tags: ambience, breezes, carbon footprint, corkscrew, doodah]

Erica Heller: How Would "Mad Men" Vote Tomorrow? — Forever frozen in our minds in the early 60s, we can only wonder how our friends from Sterling Cooper (soon to be gobbled up by Putnam, Powell, and Lowe?), on a mad gust of nicotine, and pickled in booze, would vote tomorrow. Here is my guess: DON DRAPER: Who will vote, Dick Whitman or Don Draper? Or does he get 2 votes? BETTY DRAPER: Would gladly kill for a half hour in Cindy McCain's company, if only to drool over her priceless threads and gleaming jewelry. Would run, not walk, to the polls to vote for Cindy's husband, or might... [Tags: affection, bert cooper, booze, cindy mccain, draper]

Eco Cars: Wind powered InVentus races with the wind to victory — Eco Factor: Wind powered vehicles are zooming in our future for a windy ride. The idea of tapping wind’s energy to propel vehicles on water seems to be age-old. However using the same eco energy to run, rather race, the cars on concrete roads is new to our eco world. Recently at the Racing Aeolus 2008 competition, InVentus vehicle zoomed ahead of the all participating wind powered cars and crossed the winning line. Weighing just 130 kg, this Stuttgart Ventomobile picked up enough momentum from its propeller on the rear when the winds blew. This three-wheeled car features a... [Tags: abundance, concrete roads, eco cars, eco energy, eco world]

Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells — Phenombecile800 writes "First Solar, a start-up from Arizona, is making photovoltaic cells at a fraction of the usual cost. Their secret: increasing the light-catching area 'from postage-stamp to traffic-sign dimensions,' reducing the manufacturing time to 1/10th of the competition's, and thinning the active element to 1/100th the usual thickness over a glass substrate, which enables the production of large panels. IEEE Spectrum provides some technical details about the production process. 'Glass is placed on rollers and fed into the first chamber, where it is heated to 600 C. Then it is transferred into the second chamber, which is full of... [Tags: cadmium sulfide, cdte, element, fraction, glass substrate]