This is Jessica Williamson and you are watching ZapRoot.
For any of you who don't have a TV, radio, a cell phone, carrier pigeon or friends, Barack Obama won US Presidential Election. Proving once and for all that he is truly a superhero, maybe we are still drunk on champagne and those crazy Socialists dreams about healthcare, education, banking, and environmental protection, but come on, how is that the black man named Barack Obama become President of United States without superpowers? So we are drinking Kool-Aid until the inauguration comes in January, and Barack starts disappointing us. Until then, a superhero he remains and here are our top five green dreams for 2009.
1. Make the air breathable: If not with a single breathe, how about some enforcement of The Clean Air Act.
2. Can we make food resemble food again: But that's when your skill set would prefer whole foods from the FDA rather than Monsanto and DuPont.
3. Barack, we know can't bring back dead animals or people. This isn't Pushing Daisies, but you can re-protect some of those animals that George Bush thought would be better off without.
4. We know offshore drilling had to come back with Sarah Pellings screaming, "Drill Baby Drill", but like all good old lady's come back, taking men into skinny jeans for instance, it's sucks! It will be 20 years before we see any results, so why don't we encourage fuel efficiency? You could roll out and stretch police motorcade, invest in public transportation, we need it, and it's just going to cost more later on. Finally, this is like telecommuting in your underwears, the new symbol of success.
5. Stopping global warming: You know that will fly around the earth back in time thing, otherwise Al Gore is going to have to do another PowerPoint, and nobody wants that.
But any of you-- come I'll show you Obama green dreams at ZapRoot.com. This link connects your net. The latest technology looking to give cars a run for their money, and the efficiency department is air. That's right, good old natural air, compressed, that is the idea, works like that. You compress air at super high pressure into custom carbon fiber air tanks, and you slowly release the air through jets that drives pistons just like a regular car. Critics have been getting calls by the MDI, the French company that developed the technology for years, thinking that the idea would never make it to the market, but last year they signed a deal with the Indian company TATA to bring their cars to the Indian market.
And now we are getting one tip, a company called Zero Pollution Motors plans to bring a hybrid version to the US. It would run on compressed air up to 35 mph, and then on gas up to 90mph. The design has been entered into one of the Auto Exprize competition, because it will get over 100 miles per gallon. They say they will be here in 2010 with a price tag of $17,000, but they will be buried in red tape, and spend millions on crash tests, and before one never hits the American street.
So for the US, this still might be, just a lot of hot air. Congratulations to Mike, last week's Blog Posts winner, it was about saving money and electricity with close driving rack.
There is a Blog Post winner each week on our community site, so come on in ,and get in the game. There is a link in our show, now sponsored by buygreen.com and now for some green gadgets. Alright, it's time to turn to the President beside you, punch them, then punch yourself for not thinking of this. It's a three plug wall outlet. Why have nobody thought of this before? Say you want to get people jazzed up about renewable energy. Well, you got to show them what is that, and up until now, it hasn't been easy.
Enter 3TIER, a company that just relates high resolution map for wind, solar and hydro energy for the western hemisphere; not technically a gadget, but called nonetheless, and to make usable that wind energy, check out the Helix, and your cool looking vertical wind turbine, and check out this neat idea from Heineken in 1963. A bottle that can be used as a building brick. You can finally put that drinking habit to get use. They set alcohol as a modern productive, and check out the Wash Up, a conceptual design that combines toilet and a close washer.
After the closer washed, it just uses that water to flush the toilet with. You just really want to make sure you have got a good grip on those when you are unloading at, and check put the Husqvarna's solar powered lawn mower, for about 40,000 bucks, your entire lawn gets mowed, and small pets get compost without even having to lift a finger.
Thanks watching and learn how to compost your pet at ZapRoot.com.
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