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Turkish students create hydrogen-powered 1300-MPG car

“In preparation for the inaugural Global Green Challenge across the Australian outback, a team of Turkish students have assembled a hydrogen-powered vehicle that has an efficiency of 568 kilometers per liter (roughly 1,335 mpg). In order to get across the outback, they hope to only use three liters of fuel in the vehicle, dubbed the SAHƒ∞MO. The SAHƒ∞MO weighs 110 kg–a carbon fiber frame keeps the weight down–and the scary thing is that these Sakarya University students want to up the efficiency to 1,000 km/L.

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Turkish students create hydrogen-powered 1300-MPG car

Environmentalists angry at perceived failure of G-8 on climate

What Barack Obama hailed as a “historic consensus” on climate change at this week’s G8 summit in Italy has been greeted with widespread disappointment, and even outrage, by environment and development campaigners. Greenpeace activists on inflatable boats yesterday painted a coal ship in Civitavecchia, near Rome, with the message “G8: FAILED” at the end of a week of protests in Italy and elsewhere calling on world leaders to set a more ambitious agenda. More than 100 activists occupied, painted, blocked and hung off cranes at five Italian coal-fired power stations, pointing to coal as “the world’s worst climate killer”

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