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Better Place is a project of Shai Agassi, he said a mission, to achieve sustainable transportation, global energy independence and freedom from oil. Better  Place does not makes cars but embraces a joint venture with Nissan – Renault which are building zero-emission electric cars and exchangeable batteries.

Better Place network will provide [...]

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SPRANQ creates ecofont: “Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, [...]

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ACME Vermont
Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms.
“The media are major industries, generating profit and employment; they provide us with most of our information about the political process; and they offer us ideas, images and [...]

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Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article.
Examples: [...]

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Sistema elettronico del controllo della stabilità che si integra con l’ABS, il BAS e l’ASR.
Quando per ragioni qualsiasi in curva la macchina tendesse a sbandare l’ESP mediante i suoi sensori (d’assetto, d’imbardata, angolo di sterzata) lo rileverebbe e attraverso la regolazione automatica e separata dei freni, del motore e della trasmissione impedirebbe all’autovettura eventuali perdite [...]

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Gli incidenti stradali provocano ogni anno in Italia circa 8.000 decessi (2% del totale), circa 170.000 ricoveri ospedalieri e 600.000 prestazioni di pronto soccorso non seguite da ricovero; rappresentano inoltre la prima causa di morte tra i maschi sotto i 40 anni. Il gran numero di persone che subiscono lesioni, più o meno gravi, in [...]

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April 2008
Researchers at HP Labs create the memristor — short for memory resistor – could make it possible to develop far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that retain information even after the power is off, so there’s no wait for the system to boot up after turning the computer on. It may even be [...]

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May 5, 2008
A spidery fungus with a voracious appetite for military uniforms and canvas tents could hold the key to improvements in the production of biofuels, a team of government, academic and industry researchers has announced.
The fungus T. reesei rose to dubious fame during World War II when military leaders discovered it was responsible for [...]

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Renewable, synthetic automotive fuels will guarantee future mobility. Synthetic biofuels, also known as BtL fuels (Biomass to Liquids), are largely CO2-neutral and therefore play a major role in protecting our environment and climate. SunDiesel®, one of the range of SunFuel® products, is currently being introduced to the public arena in conjunction with Daimler AG and [...]

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09 marzo 2007
«Parlando di energie rinnovabili molto chiacchierate ma poco coltivate, è inutile insistere con l’energia eolica perché di vento ce n’è poco nella Penisola al contrario dei Paesi del Nord o dell’Irlanda. Anche la biomassa rappresenta una nicchia limitata. Invece il sole è l’unica sorgente che abbiamo abbondante e ancora da sfruttare. Noi, con [...]

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