Word: fossilize
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...like an environmentalist's fantasy, but there it was on display at the Paris Auto Show last September: the Hy-wire, a politically correct, fully functional prototype that General Motors claims could be road ready by 2010. Other car manufacturers--including Toyota, Honda and Ford--are working on post-fossil-fuel automobiles, but only GM has rethought the car from the ground up, adopting an impressive array of advanced technologies invented both in Detroit and very far from it. Instead of an internal-combustion engine, for example, the Hy-wire is powered by fuel cells like those used...
...thing, the roadside infrastructure that fuels and services today's gas guzzlers would have to be redesigned to dispense hydrogen and reprogram faulty control systems. But if the result were a fleet of safe, fuel-efficient, nonpolluting cars and trucks that reduced or eliminated the world's dependence on fossil fuel, it would be worth the effort. --By Anita Hamilton
...fossil fuels must be burned to manufacture 2 grams of microchips. Also needed: 72 grams of chemicals and 32 liters of water, according to Japanese researchers...
...building will also be Cambridge’s first “green building,” according to Carr, and will be heated with no fossil fuels. Instead, it uses a geothermic process where water is pumped up from below ground; in winter, heat is extracted from the water and released into the building, and in summer, the heat is removed from the building and absorbed into the water...
Since late 1999, Georgia-based Eternal Reefs Inc. has mixed some 200 marine enthusiasts' ashes with environmentally safe concrete to create "reef balls." The use of fossil fuels during cremation is somewhat offset by what the balls give back: they are lowered into the ocean to help rehabilitate damaged reefs. Within a year, corals form...