Posted on November 20, 2009 by samser
Inspector Gadget, your bicycle is ready. Andrew Hamilton has prepared it according to all your needs: It has an advanced battery pack to give you an extra burst for pursuing bad guys, and it folds up nice and small, too, like the impossible tools that you use to catch them. It can even survive a gunfight.
Filed under: 2009, Culture & Sport, Energy & Environment | Tagged: Andrew Hamilon, electric bicycle, electric bike, folding | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 20, 2008 by samser
Israeli teams researching plants long thought worthless are poised to lead the next great energy wave
Filed under: 2008, Energy & Environment | Tagged: biodiesel, castor, Galten, jatropha | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 24, 2008 by samser
A next-generation electric scooter about to make its Israel debut promises a green transportation revolution with ‘no gas, no oil, no compromise.’ Well, almost.
Filed under: 2008, Energy & Environment | Tagged: electric scooter, Vectrix | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 11, 2008 by samser
Israel’s water shortage has reached critical levels. Here’s why.
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by samser
A set of Shmuel Ovadia’s buoys would exploit one of the world’s most reliable – and most potent – sources of energy
Filed under: 2008, Economics, Energy & Environment | Tagged: Shmuel Ovadia, wave energy, wave power | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 9, 2007 by samser
Just because Israel contributes very little to the problem of global warming doesn’t mean that we should contribute little to its solution
Filed under: 2007, Energy & Environment | Tagged: environment, Global warming | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 2, 2007 by samser
Foresters helping the country recover from the lingering effects of last summer’s war – and with the planting frenzy of Tu Bishvat as a backdrop – are approaching their task with a sense of purpose in a time of renewal.
Filed under: 2007, Energy & Environment | Tagged: Biriya Forest, fire, Hizbullah, Katyushas, Second Lebanon War | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 12, 2007 by samser
Progress on the solar energy front requires two things: lots of desert, and sophisticated scientific research facilities in that desert. Israel happens to have both.
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Posted on July 13, 2006 by samser
The Dead Sea is shrinking rapidly – and the only plan in place to revive it could very well spell its doom
Filed under: 2006, Energy & Environment | Tagged: Dead Sea, Red-Dead Canal, shrinking | Leave a Comment »