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The environment-friendly Hydrogen-Powered RiverSimple car should be on your garages soon

Being green and saving the environment is one of the leading trends in America today. You can go simple and opt for trash segregation, recycling, or finally stopping your smoking addiction. However, there are also those who prefer to go the extra mile. They build solar panels on their roofs, construct their houses using environmentally-safe materials, or even plant a whole forest. Then, there are those who buy hydrogen cars.

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RiverSimple unveiled their newest hydrogen urban car last June 16, 2009. Why buy a hydrogen car? The biggest difference is between the petrol and the hydrogen. Hydrogen is less flammable than petrol. Hydrogen, the lightest element, spreads and disperses fast and easily, so if a leak occurs, hydrogen cannot burn. If it does, it burns upward and disappears quickly. It would also give out less heat, thus creating less damage.

Other than resolved safety issues, driving a hydrogen car will be a big help to the envionment since hydrogen cars do not release smoke and do not increase air pollution.

The RiverSimple car, however, can only seat two people. It won’t be the perfect car for a family going to a picnic or a beach outing. Rather, the hydrogen car is excellent for young professionals who need a mode of transportation to use when going to work.

Other than the fact that it is powered by hydrogen, the materials used were very lightweight, so it is possible to drive it with much more ease and comfort than a regular car.

You can find other ecological cars here.

Green Up Your PC

This week is a very special week. To show our love for dear Mother Earth, Geekie will be giving you a healthy dose of ways to say i heart our planet. Boom-ti-yayah!

To start with, why not get rid of those non-biodegradable PC paraphernalia? Your home is not the only thing that deserves to have recycled materials or sustainable supplies. Your home or office PC can benefit from some earth love as well. So yell out earth day and for your PC, go bamboo!

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Ditch that multi-button state-of-the-art mouse with the cosmic lights emanating from it. This is the mouse that will aid in saving our planet. This optical scroll mouse is made of a bamboo housing, so it’s highly eco-friendly. It includes a liftetime warranty, and it’s also compatible with both PC and Mac. So you Apple lovers can also boast out your love for mother nature. Get this bamboo mouse right here, or send it over to an earth-loving friend.

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Why stop at the mouse? This sleek and stylish looking keyboard is made of solid bamboo. At first glance, it looks like a high-end wooden dashboard of some luxury car. That’s probably how you’d feel while you’re typing up your blog entry on this eco-friendly keyboard. Not only is this elegant, it helps save the world as well. You can order your eco-friendly Bamboo Housing keyboard here.

XO-1 : The greenest umpc in town

 

     Also known as the $100 laptop or children’s machine, the XO-1 created by the One Laptop Per Child Association and manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company, Quanta Computer, is an inexpensive yet economical and top of the line laptop designed to be distributed to children in developing nations around the world. This unit would provide the kids access to knowledge all over the world through the internet, and would let them express themselves, explore the world and expand their minds.

      Why is it called the greenest laptop on earth? That is a great question. This laptop simply is very economical and ecological. It doesn’t contain mercury, cadmium, lead, hexavalent chromium and  brominated fire retardant. the design is rugged, it uses flash drive as it’s memory and doesn’t use a hard drive. It is an ultra low powered device, meaning it can save 4x in battery life compared to the ordinary laptop we use at home. There’s more! It’s battery decomposes into  fertilizer with processing!

    

 You won’t find it in shops anytime soon, but here’s a quick guide for the specs of this awesome mother earth – friendly buddy:

Processor : depends, but mostly it uses the GEODE technology of AMD

1 gig RAM

internal LD cardslot

Built in stereo speakers and mic

WiFi enabled

3 USB ports

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     Hope that the developer would develop such  a computer available to the public so anyone can purchase this phenomenal buddy. =)

To keep the design as a low powered device, the XO-1 left all the motor moving parts of the PC such as the hard disk,  cd rom/dvd drive etc.

     Technology seems to be aware of the health of mother earth, a good change that we are alarmed by mother earth’s plead to save and preserve her resources.