Thursday, February 17, 2011

Urbee, not Herbie, may be the car of the future

"After nearly 15 years of formulations and hypotheses, Jim Kor and his fellow Urbee Car Project team members have developed a two-passenger hybrid car that can run solely on renewable energy." (via Product Design & Development News).






Check them out at http://www.urbee.net/

Also see:
http://www.dexigner.com/news/22045
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2011/02/16/watch-out-prius-here-comes-urbee
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/02/the-secret-world-of-printing-concept-cars-in-3d/

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

North American Seventh-Day Adventist Church Membership

The North American SDA membership grew from 891,176 to 1,108,158 from 1998 to 2009. The growth rate of the N.A. SDA church is much higher than I expected, and outpaces the population growth of the U.S. by a fairly large margin.




Source: http://www.adventiststatistics.org/