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Solar Ship Sets Sail to Save Some… uh, Gas

by Matt Embrey on September 2nd, 2008

Toyota’s newest Hybrid will weigh about 60,000 tons, have 328 solar panels and will still burn through about $45,000 of fuel in a day. It’s not the 2009 Prius, thank god, it’s a new hybrid cargo ship that Toyota plans to ship it’s smaller hybrids on. The ship is being built by Nippon Yusen KK [...]

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Junk Ship Raising Awareness for Pacific Junk Island

by Matt Embrey on August 8th, 2008

There is currently an island of trash floating in the pacific and we’re not talking about Spiral Island (that’s in the Caribbean). We are talking about the massive amounts of garbage that have collected in the Northern Pacific Gyre that create a garbage patch the size of Texas! What can we do about such massive [...]

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