Galileo: Energy and Transport

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Tall ships make a comeback as oil price hits exports

A British schooner docked in Penzance yesterday carrying 30,000 bottles of wine on a voyage that enthusiasts believe will herald a return to wind power in merchant shipping.

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School Bus Tricycle in India

In human history, poverty is the default state. Only in the recent past did the average person (and only in certain countries) emerge from what we would now consider 'abject poverty' (back then it was just normal). This tricycle 'school bus' from India is an example of 'getting by with what you've got'.

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Israel-world’s leader in electric cars?

What would happen if you cross-bred J. R. Ewing of “Dallas” and Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club? You’d get T. Boone Pickens. What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green billionaire Texas oilman now obsessed with wind power, and Shai Agassi, the Jewish Henry Ford now obsessed with making Israel the world’s leader in electric cars?

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IKEA's Bicycle Trailers

IKEA of Denmark is now starting a new concept at their Danish stores.

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Building a Better World, One Delivery at a Time

More Cargo Biking


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The Train That Never Stops

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Cargo bikes

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Green Bombardier Jet

Analysts predict Bombardier's new CSeries jet to sell like hotcakes

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