Green Options » greenbird http://greenoptions.com/tag/greenbird Posts tagged 'greenbird' Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Climate Change Thwarts Effort to Highlight Climate Change http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/15/climate-change-thwarts-effort-to-highlight-climate-change/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/15/climate-change-thwarts-effort-to-highlight-climate-change/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:41:35 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/15/climate-change-thwarts-effort-to-highlight-climate-change/ Greenbird, free license to publish.)Oh, the irony: a team hoping to break a land speed record for a wind-powered craft while calling attention to the twilight of the fossil fuel era and climate change has been undone by … climate change, apparently. The Ecotricity Greenbird team had hoped to speed across a dry lake bed in Australia, but the area has been soaked by a summer of unusually heavy rains.

“(I)t’s an irony not lost on us while that while Greenbird is intended to show how the world might be getting around when fossil fuels run out — the changes that fossil fuels are causing to our climate right now appears to be the very thing that has stopped us,” writes Ecotricity founder Dale Vince on his blog, Zerocarbonista.

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]]> http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/15/climate-change-thwarts-effort-to-highlight-climate-change/feed/ British Team Attempting to Break Land Speed Record in Wind-Powered Vehicle http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/21/british-team-attempting-to-break-land-speed-record-in-wind-powered-vehicle/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/21/british-team-attempting-to-break-land-speed-record-in-wind-powered-vehicle/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:40:04 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/21/british-team-attempting-to-break-land-speed-record-in-wind-powered-vehicle/ greenbird

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince and Richard Jenkins, an engineer, will attempt to break the world land-speed record for a wind-powered vehicle on Australia’s Lake Lefroy in the coming days. The current record is 116.7 mph.

According to Vince, the Greenbird uses technology found on Formula 1 vehicles and aircraft to achieve high speeds without an engine. The vehicle uses solid sails similar to those found on aircraft wings. The Greenbird, which is made of carbon composites, can transfer up to one ton of side force into the ground, and is so efficient that it can travel three to five times the true wind speed on land.

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