air car news!

MDI compressed air car

humanitarian application of an air engine:

The Di Pietro Motor (Rotary Air Engine)

Angelo Di Pietro: 

"There is no other motor as good as ours, years of research and analysing other motors around the world gave me the confidence and obligation to say so. Obligation in the sense that people have been waiting for ages in relation to efficiency in order to take care of our environmental situation." 

http://www.engineair.com.au/airmotor.htm

incremental housing strategy

Architects Filipe Balestra and Sara Göransson have developed a strategy to develop informal slums into permanent urban districts through a process of gradual improvement to existing dwellings instead of demolition and rebuilding.

Veloheld

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ecosystem carbon balance

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Versailles

still party in versailles

taylor glacier bacterial community

'Ihren - sehr niedrigen - Energiebedarf deckt die Lebensgemeinschaft wahrscheinlich aus Restbeständen von organischen Kohlenstoffverbindungen unter Zuhilfenahme des einzigartigen Schwefel-Eisen-Kreislaufs. Licht und Sauerstoff werden nicht benötigt.' [derStandard.at]



























pic from: http://www.crystalinks.com/antarcticamicrobes409a.jpg

the taylor glacier bacterial community (which you see as red outflow in the above picture) will be visited by:

ENDURANCE - an 'Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antartic Explorer'








































check aerticles:

in 'science' and in 'applied and environmental microbiology' about this endeavour.

versailles