tires Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:37:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Backfire – Michigan Says Burning Tires is a Renewable Energy Source https://www.greenoptimistic.com/backfire-michigan-says-burning-tires-renewable-energy-source-20141208/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/backfire-michigan-says-burning-tires-renewable-energy-source-20141208/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:37:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50516 “Tire burning” and “Renewable Energy” doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense to me, especially considering that tires are made from synthetic rubber, which comes from petroleum, which is NOT a “renewable” resource. Please tell me, then, what fuzzy commodities calculator Michigan legislators are using to come up with House Bill 5205? Sponsored […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/backfire-michigan-says-burning-tires-renewable-energy-source-20141208/feed/ 1 50516 Scrap Tires and Concrete Transformed Into Ecological Building Blocks https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scrap-tires-and-concrete-transformed-into-ecological-building-blocks-20091203/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scrap-tires-and-concrete-transformed-into-ecological-building-blocks-20091203/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:52:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5645 Concrete is one of the best materials the world has ever seen - you can see it everywhere. The problem is that when you want to dispose it, you suddenly have a problem - a big one. The same story goes with scrap tires - once used, they can hardly be dispensed of, or, in the best of cases - recycled.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scrap-tires-and-concrete-transformed-into-ecological-building-blocks-20091203/feed/ 2 5645 "Amphibious Hybrid" Electric Car Designed for Any Terrain https://www.greenoptimistic.com/amphibious-hybrid-electric-car-designed-for-any-terrain-20090802/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/amphibious-hybrid-electric-car-designed-for-any-terrain-20090802/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:26:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4240 Car designers Jaap Van Der Voort, Tiemen Stelwagen, Janne Leppänen, Roope Kolu and Tuulia Miettinen have designed a zero-emission concept car that can run on any type of road, including on water.

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