Weird but super useful gadgets
I seem to be someone who buys things on the off chance that they will be useful at some point down the road. Thile there are many times when it doesn't feel like this pays off, some of the ...
The California Clean Tech Open, a competition in which participants created technology-enabled, environmentally friendly businesses, announces its winners.
The transportation category winner was KiteShip, which has created giant kites that can help pull commercial ships.
According to KiteShip, nearly 2 billion barrels of heavy fuel oil are burned each year by ship fleets worldwide, creating three times the atmospheric pollution from all the cars on the planet combined. KiteShip's kites are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as ship fuel costs by 25 percent.
Caption by: Andy Smith
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