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Who Killed the Electric Car?

To give some context to the big 3 U.S. car companies’ plea for a bailout, we are rerunning this 2006 documentary film (92:25 min, 10 segments) that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of GM’s battery electric vehicle.

Segments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Earth Report 2008

This National Geographic film looks at the events that have swept our planet in 2007 and the effects they had on the landscape, the atmosphere and humans. (47:26 min)

Solar Energy Breakthrough

A technology breakthrough in Israel enable researchers to collect much more energy per solar panel which could make solar power competitive with traditional energy sources (3:48 min).

Biofuel Rush in Myanmar

Refugees say Myanmar’s military government is forcing farmers off their land as it rushes to grow plants for biofuel production. Al Jazeera’s Selina Downes reports (2:36 min).

The Air Car

Australia’s Beyond Tomorrow looks at Compressed Air Car Innovations in France and Australia (8:52 min) that may hit the market soon.

  • Edgar Cayce

    Decoding the Past – The Other Nostradamus
  • Frontiers: Sci-Tech

  • Parallel Universes
  • Michio Kaku Talks About ETs and the MultiVerse
  • Kaku: 3 Types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations
  • Time Travel by Virtual Reality
  • Human Version 2.0
  • The Intelligent Revolution
  • Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs Boson
  • Nanotechnology Takes Off
  • China Watch

  • Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium
  • Olympic Water Cube [H2O]3
  • China’s Sexual Revolution
  • Uyghur - China’s Other Tibet
  • The Story of India

  • The Series - Volume 1-4
  • Plus:
  • The Life of Buddha
  • City of the Gods - Angkor, Cambodia
  • Food Around the World

    Street Food: Beijing | Cairo | Mumbai | Nairobi | New York | Penang
    No Reservations: Vietnam | Indonesia |
  • Someday We Will Have a Cool Map

    Africa > North Africa
    Egypt | Kenya | Morocco | Niger | Uganda

    Middle East > Afghanistan | Iran (Persia) | Iraq | Israel/Palestinian

    South Asia > Bangladesh | India | Pakistan
    Southeast Asia > Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Thailand | Vietnam
    Asia > China | Japan | Tibet

    Canada | U.S.
    Latin America > Brazil | Guatemala | Mexico | Nicaragua | Peru | Venezuela

    Europe > Great Britain | Greece | Italy | Macedonia | Russia | Spain | Germany

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