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Electric Jeepneys Challenge a Philippine Icon
Sat, 11/22/2008 - 02:06The Philippine passenger jeepney has started to shed its image as a smoke-belching, eardrum-busting public utility vehicle. Originally fashioned out of WWII American military jeeps, these colorful and iconic "kings of the road" are going green.
'Fish technology' draws renewable energy from slow water currents
Sat, 11/22/2008 - 01:50ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn potentially destructive vibrations in fluid flows into clean, renewable power.