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...Some of the original students remain, though FNL intends to cycle a few of them off this season as well. Former quarterback Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) is trying to start adult life in Dillon, having given up art school in Chicago to care for his increasingly senile grandmother; the Taylors' daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden) may out her parents as hypocrites when she insists on transferring to East Dillon over their objections. And tragic hunk Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) is off to college - if he can overcome his low self-esteem and bad family history enough to tough...
...That could be changing. Early next year, four new solar hybrid ferries will set sail in the Hong Kong harbor, using solar collectors to power an electric engine that will shuttle Hong Kong Jockey Club members to the Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course. It's a modest start to cleaning up the city's smog, but if the ferries' owners at the Jockey Club, a nonprofit that holds a monopoly on gambling in Hong Kong and runs the golf course, demonstrate that the solar-powered ferries actually save the organization money, private businesses are likely to jump on board...
...Hong Kong is not the first city to have green ships. Captain Cook Cruises in Sydney's harbor has been running a hybrid Solar Sailor ship since 2000. In Berlin, the mayor christened a solar ferry in July, and Shanghai will have its own Solar Sailor ferry by the start of the 2010 World Expo. Founded in 1999, the company's innovative designs won the Australian Design Award of the Year, and Solar Sailor became the first Australian company recognized by the prestigious Tech Museum Awards. The inspiration for the solar sails, says Robert Dane, CEO of Solar Sailor...
...them across the world's oceans. Cosco, China's biggest shipping company, has inked an agreement with Solar Sailor for giant solar sails to be retrofitted on some of Cosco's tanker ships. The solar wings would be almost 115 ft. long, and Solar Sailor expects the wings to start saving Cosco money after only four years. The Japanese company NYK Line launched the M/V Auriga Leader in 2008, the world's first cargo ship partly run on solar power. With 328 solar panels covering its upper deck, the ship produces enough electricity to continuously power 10 homes...
...Princeton’s Ben Bologna kicked off the start of the game, there were zero people in the stands in front of me. Z-E-R-O in all of Section 35—the traditional student section...