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	<description>Lets Breath again by making environment clean and more green</description>
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		<title>Ethanol-Powered Vehicles Generate More Ozone Than Gas-Powered Ones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethanol &#8211; often promoted as a clean-burning, renewable fuel that could help wean the nation from oil &#8212; would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, compared with gasoline, especially in winter, according to a new study led by Stanford researchers.
Ozone production from both gasoline and E85, a blend of gasoline and ethanol that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/ethanol-powered-vehicles-generate-more-ozone-than-gas-powered-ones/</link>
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		<title>MINI Hands Over 40 EVs to British Test Drivers at Oxford Plant</title>
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MINI has officially begun the UK phase of its electric vehicle test program. Six months after 500 MINI Es were delivered to customers in the U.S., another 40 examples have found new homes in British garages. While U.S. customers got 12-month leases on the battery-powered cars, British drivers will only get six-month terms. After that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/mini-hands-over-40-evs-to-british-test-drivers-at-oxford-plant/</link>
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		<title>GE Wins $1.4 billion Wind Farm Contract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Power company Caithness Energy has given General Electric a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines and 10 years&#8217; worth of maintenance for an Oregon wind farm, GE announced.
The massive 845-megawatt wind farm, Shepherds Flat, will be located near Arlington, Oregon, but span approximately 30 square miles and cover parts of Oregon&#8217;s Gilliam and Morrow Counties.
GE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/ge-wins-1-4-billion-wind-farm-contract/</link>
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		<title>Australia Carbon Vote Delay Raises Poll Prospect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s parliament delayed a final vote on a government carbon trade plan, missing a key deadline, throwing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd&#8217;s climate change policy into doubt and raising the possibility of a snap election.
Rudd wanted the carbon scheme, central to his promise to cut emissions by between 5 and 25 percent, passed by Friday and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/australia-carbon-vote-delay-raises-poll-prospect/</link>
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		<title>Electric Carmaker Tesla Preparing IPO: Sources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. electric sports car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.
An IPO filing from the six-year-old start-up, best known for its $109,000 all-electric Roadster, is expected any day, said one of the sources. The person did not give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/electric-carmaker-tesla-preparing-ipo-sources/</link>
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		<title>CO2 Emissions Are Not Changing the Ratio of Airborne CO2 to That Taken Up By the Oceans and Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Bristol in the UK has published a study based not on climate modeling, but on statistical analysis of data including historical data from Antarctic ice cores.
The study shows that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/co2-emissions-are-not-changing-the-ratio-of-airborne-co2-to-that-taken-up-by-the-oceans-and-plants/</link>
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		<title>Japan May Build a Solar Station in Space by 2030</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese space agency has unveiled an incredible new plan to start collecting solar power in space, and zap it down to Earth via microwaves or laser beams.
Under the plan, known as the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), floating photovoltaic dishes several square miles across would hover in geostationary orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/japan-may-build-a-solar-station-in-space-by-2030/</link>
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		<title>PNE Wind Aims to Generate 25 Percent of Sales in U.S: CEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German wind park developer PNE Wind aims to generate a quarter of its sales in the United States in three year&#8217;s time, its chief executive told Reuters.
&#8220;Our goal is to generate 25 percent of sales there in three years,&#8221; Martin Billhardt said in an interview. The company does not provide a regional breakdown of sales, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/pne-wind-aims-to-generate-25-percent-of-sales-in-u-s-ceo/</link>
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		<title>What Is a Hybrid?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In genetics, a hybrid is the result of combining elements from different species. When it comes to cars and trucks, a hybrid refers to a vehicle whose powertrain combines the aspects of different technologies (i.e. gasoline and electric) to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
In automotive terms, hybridization is nothing new. Hybrid cars and trucks that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/what-is-a-hybrid/</link>
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		<title>Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this decade, a drought in Brazil that cut water to the country’s hydroelectric dams prompted severe energy shortages. The crisis, which ravaged the country’s economy and led to electricity rationing, underscored Brazil’s pressing need to diversify away from water power.
One result of that introspection will climax on Dec. 14, when the Brazilian government conducts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://environmentonearth.com/brazilian-wind-power-gets-a-boost/</link>
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