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Project Better Place is a name for an innovative company focused on building massive scale Electric Recharge Grids as infrastructure supporting the deployment of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) in countries around the world. And Tel Aviv is one first to embrace Project Better Place vision.

Renault-Nissan the first automaker, to announce partnerships with Project Better Place to begin a mass deployment of electric cars making it possible for consumers to choose an electric vehicle that is much less expensive to operate, does not emit pollution or greenhouse gases and provides a better driving experience from their current automobiles.

Their promotional website praised the State of Israel for having a foresight in implementing an appropriate tax policy, and setting out a vision by which it can become the first industrialized nation to end the stranglehold of oil on its economy and environment. Renault-Nissan, likewise, has shown great vision and leadership , when agreeing to become the first major automaker to produce electric vehicles on a mass-scale to integrate with our infrastructure .

Project Better Place try to adopt the mobile phone business model where the motorist pays the equivalent of their current annual petrol bill for a mileage plan, they could be given the car to use, and it would become theirs after four years. Other mobile plans could operate - all you can eat unlimited mileage, pay as you go, and so on. The plan is to have the first of the cars on the road in 2009, 100,000 in 2010 and Israel off oil within ten years.

The motorist can recharge their electric cars at around 500,000 battery exchange stations and roadside charge points which which allow the cars to be charged whenever they\'re parked.

This is really a radical and brave undertaking I surely hope they succeed, so many other big cities would follow for mass adoption of ev and hybrid. The future of electric world is getting near.

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not." Vaclav Havel
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This week, Barcelona began importing potable water by ship as part of a broader effort to meet needs. Its reservoirs are down to 20 percent capacity. It spent USD$68 million to ship in drinking water from the southern city of Tarragona.

Spain’s average rainfall fell down 40 percent last year, many cities have restricted residents from filling their swimming pools or watering their lawns. But perhaps no municipality has developed such diverse and creative solutions as hard-hit Barcelona.

A biology professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Frank Fish discovered that bumps on humpback whale, called tubercles, enable a whale to make tight turns and capture prey with astonishing agility.

Fish'sexperiments revealed that significant drag occurs at a much steeper angle on the humpback fin than it does on a sleek flipper. Each tubercle redirects and channels air over the flipper, creating a sort of whirling vortex that actually improves lift.

Fish is now using this technology perfected by nature to produce fans with serrated blades that use 20 percent less electricity than traditional models. This finding contradicts conventional designs that strive for the smoothest possible edges.

The technology can be used in a huge range of machines such as turbines, compressors, pumps, and fans that use blades or rotors – most anything that cuts through air, water, steam or oil.

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