del.icio.us links for February 1, 2008

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Project Better Place’s Announcement is Story of the Year – RenewableEnergyAccess.Com

   Renault-Nissan and Project Better Place recently announced a plan to make Israel oil-free by 2010. They are going to do this with vehicles with swap-out-able batteries, and a system of 500,000 re-charging facilities across the country.

2. The Green Picture: Introducing the MacBook Earth – GroovyGreen.com

   Website DVICE has put together some amusing takes on the MacBook line. The MacBook Earth. Who wouldn’t want a solar-powered laptop made from clay that you could simply throw into your garden when you’re done?

3. CIA Goes Green, Or So They Tell Us – TreeHugger.Com

   The Central Intelligence Agency’s new facilities in northern Virginia are going LEED, with a 22,000 square foot green roof, 40% savings in water by using low-flush toilets and waterless urinals, 21% savings in energy

4. The Aerogenerator: 9MW Vertical Axis Turbine – TreeHugger.Com

   Aerogenerator above, which is being developed by a Scottish firm called, imaginatively enough, Windpower (we can’t find a link to their site). We previously covered the design of this baby in its early stages, via The Guardian

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1. Aptera Test Drive A Success! – MetaEfficient.Com

   It ready available for pre-order, and priced at about $27,000. There will be two models of the Aptera: an all-electric version that goes 120 miles on a charge (for 2008), and a gasoline version that will get 300 mpg (for 2009).

2. The Largest Building In The World To Be Green – MetaEfficient.Com

   As you would expect from a Foster + Partners project, the self-contained city within a city has green energy management at the very heart of the design. Crystal Island will generate low carbon energy from solar arrays and wind turbines

3. Solar and Wind Powered StreetLights In Tokyo – MetaEfficient.Com

   These self-contained streetlights that generate 100% of their power from the sun and the wind. During the day, solar power is stored in a battery at the base of the light pole, includes a small vertical-axis wind turbine.

4. Microsoft bids $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo – Reuters.Com

   “Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc.” OK, so where did Microsoft get $44.6 billion from?

5. Amazon Hears the Future, Buys Audible.com – GigaOM.Com

   Amazon.com sees where the future of media is heading, and is slowly amassing the properties and contracts it needs to make sure its retail empire is at the forefront. Today’s $300 million agreement to buy digital audio book reseller Audible.com

6. Nightingale-Song.Com

   The nightingale’s bookmarks – Translate into R2D2 language – Learn things about the day you were born – Scry the crystal ball – Compose Kako birds MIDI tunes – Send a singing telegram with a duck

7. KHRONOS PROJECTOR – Alvaro Cassinelli – K2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

   The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process.

8. Russians behind zombie PC threat – TheFirstPost.Co.Uk

   The campaign is likely to peak on or around St Valentine’s Day, the day of the year when people are most likely to click on an anonymous email and open the link inside. The threat is a return of 2007′s devastating ‘Storm’ trojan.