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...than just the color of the box office receipts. The producers of the Steve Carrel comedy Evan Almighty worked with the Conservation Fund to make the film carbon neutral, from the first script sessions to the ultra-light DVD packaging. (The movie bombed, but at least it made a lighter impact on the Earth when it did.) This season the action show 24 will set the standard for green production, with all-recycled scripts, biodiesel power and LED lights. (Jack Bauer will not begin chasing terrorists in an L.A. city bus, however.) Given Hollywood's penchant for copying success...
That pressure has pitted manufacturers against one another to come up with thinner, lighter, cleaner LCDs. Sharp plans to build a $3.4 billion factory near Osaka to produce bigger screens more efficiently. Yet, Teragawa says, as flat screens grew in popularity, the products became virtually indistinguishable from one another...
...deep as we were last year. I’m a little disappointed because the saber squad is stronger than [Brandeis], and they beat us, and that shouldn’t happen.” Where the men fell short, the women picked up the slack. Facing lighter competition from still-developing BC, MIT, and Brandeis, each weapon rose to the occasion. The foil fencing trio of Misha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky showed they are rookies no more, starting off their sophomore season with a perfect 27-0 day, and proving they will be a force...
...electric engines, and loads four lithium batteries - a quarter of the aircraft's total weight of 3,300 lbs. (1,500 kg) - which allow the plane to continue flying through the night. Project director and co-pilot André Borschberg says that while labs around the world are developing lighter and more effective batteries, those currently available impose severe limits on the plane's weight. "With twice the battery capacity, we'd have a different plane," he says. And perhaps a more comfortable one: HB-SIA's pilot will sit in an unheated, unpressurized cockpit, in which he'll encounter...
...light. Even Piccard doesn't envision solar planes replacing today's airliners anytime soon, but that's not the point. To reduce emissions, he believes, aviation will eventually need to wean itself from fossil fuels. "To make reasonable use of any alternative," he says, "we have to become lighter and more aerodynamic to reduce consumption." Solar Impulse promises to generate an array of futuristic insights - and some old-fashioned thrills along...