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Lucia Glacier
The Lucia Glacier was reported flowing at an unprecedented 2 meters an hour! Glaciers usually only move 120 meters a year! As it moves towards the end of the sea, massive chunks break off the glacier. When these big chunks of ice break off, it has a seismic impact. Earthquakes can occur when these chunks fall off. Scientists never saw this coming. What the scientists believe is that the west Antarctic ice sheet will go first. If ice sheet melts, we’ll see a rise in sea levels 23 feet and if west Antarctic that’s 16 more feet totaling to 39ft. This means most of the earth’s coastal cities will be underwater if both glaciers were to liquefy. |
Energy Conserving Cars Don't want to wait for Toyota to come out with that 100-mpg hybrid? You don't have to, thanks to the people at CalCars. Headed by a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, the geeks at CalCars can help you take a standard Toyota Prius hybrid — which currently gets nearly 50 mpg — and tweak it so that it runs almost entirely on the electric  engine, powered via a standard 120-volt outlet. That means that your
hybrid can run almost entirely on electric power for most short
journeys, with the gas engine in reserve for longer trips. The
conversions are still rare and pricey right now, but mainstream auto
manufacturers are working on their own custom models, and many experts
think that plug-in hybrids could be the wave of the future. |
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