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TRANSPORT

British Airways Making Biodiesel Fuel, Natural Gas & Fertilizer

Hey, it’s wonderful to see British Airways getting a biodiesel fuel policy plan together in such a large and positive way and helping the environment.
I have heard that this fantastic development comes with benefits of renewable energy by building a ‘Jet Fuel Plant’ in East London which will in fact bring new employment to around [...]

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Motor Sports

So, moving from one extreme to the other, let’s take a look at motor sports. Everything that can move seems to be raced these days, from Formula One cars to lawn mowers on steroids, and there’s no doubt that such races are incredibly popular.
All over the world, racing motorised vehicles draws millions of ardent fans [...]

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Accident Prevention

Being involved in an accident is every motorist’s worst nightmare. Statistically speaking, the longer you drive the more likely you are to have one. It doesn’t really take a rocket scientist to work that one out though, does it?
An accident can be anything from bending a bumper/fender to a serious collision causing injury, or worse. [...]

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What’s New on ‘The Motoring Scene’?

To start with, the price of fuel has gone sky high! But then I’m pretty sure you will have noticed that with so many factors at play in the recent rocket ship ride of oil prices, far be it for me to offer any more sage analysis than what you may already have heard:
1. That [...]

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Gadgets Galore – - Latest Must Have Trends for Car Owners

Cars are status symbols – there’s no getting away from it. People can bang on about them being a means of getting from A to B but very few of us want to drive around in a car we don’t feel proud of.
While most of us want a car that’s on the “A” list, that [...]

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Police Cars – What’s Special about Them?

They move fast, they have flashing lights on the roof, and they have sirens that can be heard a long way off. But surely that isn’t all that’s special about police cars?
There’s no standard design for these extremely vital and increasingly sophisticated vehicles, and no manufacturer can ever claim to have designed a police car [...]

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Some Fun Transport

This issue covers:
4×4s – The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful.
Boy’s Toys – Bringing Motoring Up To Speed.
Police Cars – What’s Special about Them?
Green Fuel – The Facts.
1. 4×4s – The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
It seems that wherever in the world you wander, or even drive for that matter, you’ll find the 4×4 [...]

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Global Warming – Biodiesel and the Kyoto Protocol

I thought I would chat about some aspects affecting the production of biodiesel.
The Kyoto Protocol goes by a number of aliases: The Kyoto Treaty, The Kyoto Accord, or The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
It does not stand alone but is actually an amendment to a larger body of work [...]

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Alternative Energy – Biodiesel

Efforts to find affordable replacements to current vehicle fuel choices, biodiesel has quickly become one of the leading alternatives.
Biodiesel is considered a renewable eco-friendly resource derived from vegetable oil or animal fats. Once the vegetable oil or animal fat is processed, it becomes a combustible material, like the petroleum-based diesel currently used today in many [...]

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Algae Blooms

Is it a plant? Is it an animal? Algae are very unusual! Algae are microscopic organisms, and are usually considered to be just simple aquatic plants. Pond scum, really. But it may surprise you to learn that some algae display characteristics we would normally associate with an animal. Characteristics like motility and a cell structure [...]

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