Here’s another new discovery towards the green revolution! Rolls Royce has come up with a brilliant modified version of an open rotor propeller plane installed with a less noise making engine as opposed to its original loud engine.

The engine has been tested with results showing a remarkable cut down on greenhouse gas emissions to 30% and also a great save on fuel costs as compared to the modern turbo jet engines.

Although CO2 from airplanes is barely 2-3% of the total global emissions, the rate of travel has gone up by 6-7% with the airline travel efficiency making improvements of only 1% a year. As solar planes are not being thought upon in the near future, the propeller plane is a feasible option for increasing travel efficiency and cutting down on fuel consumption.

Apart from Rolls Royce, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Snecma are also venturing upon the open rotor propeller plane. - via GreenDaily

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Carbon Sciences has recently declared that it has made an important breakthrough that can convert CO2 emissions into fuels. This would cut down on the 62 billion metric tones of CO2 - root cause of global warming, which is let out into the atmosphere every year.

The technology will use these harmful emissions and convert them into useful sources of energy.

As CO2 requires a lot of energy to break them into hydrocarbons that is used for fuel, Carbon Sciences is working on a technology, with the help of chemical and bioengineering principles that would hasten up this process. Since this process is highly energy efficient, they’ll set up a CO2 transformation plant that would use the CO2 released by a larger producer such as a power plant, and transform it into useable fuels.

This breakthrough technology promises that it can successfully give the world a cleaner atmosphere by closing the loop on carbon releases. - via Inhabitat

Japan is not always first out of the gate. Okay, not usually first out of the gate but they do know how to take an idea and run with it, make it better and make it more expensive, too.

Enter the eco-coffin and if you need 5 reasons to buy an eco-coffin in Hong Kong … and anywhere else let me know. You may also be interested in eco-funerals if they are green enough for you.

Japan is just now making the idea her own. Tri-Wall K. K. is challenging funeral convention in Japan and asking customers to make a final statement, to think outside the box. Instead of expensive wooden boxes, how about one made from cardboard…an ecoffin. Good word, eh?

The ecoffin uses half the wood of a conventional coffin and requires half the energy for combustion.

What’s more, the company plants ten red pine trees in Mongolia for each coffin that is used in a carbon offset mechanism.

99% of Japanese are cremated. Japanese laws do not require crematoriums to report levels of CO2 emissions either. And everyone in Japan is going to die sooner or later.

Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has given guidelines to crematoriums requiring them to improve their incinerators and reduce emissions.

The part I don’t get is Tri-Wall’s ecoffin is more costly than a regular pine box. Um, why not just use a refrigerator box? Seriously. And what about recycling the boxes? I guess I can’t see that happening.

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Not sure what you will think but the pre-historic family we all know, The Flintstones, got arrested in Brussels, Belgium, while driving towards the European Parliament building.

It wasn’t Fred or Wilma to get the penalty, but six Greenpeace activists dressed as cavemen driving the “Flintstone car”, that protested on the influence of the auto industry on proposals to curb carbon dioxide emissions from car. This week the European Parliament will start debating on the legislation that forces down CO2 emissions from cars, with fines on manufacturers that fail to comply.

“Our activists and their zero-emission vehicle are raising the alarm about the influence this dinosaur industry exercises over EU climate policy,” said Greenpeace transport campaigner, Melanie Francis.

Not sure about you but I remember the pedal powered ‘Flintstone car’ driver that got his traffic ticket dismissed, so I hope nothing happens to these six well-intended cavemen.