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« Previous EntriesNext Entries »The Energy Blog: Why Both Biofuels and Battery Based Vehicles are Necessary
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Over at TheEnergyBlog, Jim lays out the reasons why both a robust biofuel program and new battery based vehicles are both necessary. Some people think that we should not focus on biofuels and instead put everything into batteries. Jim makes a convincing arguement as to why both are necessary. So [...]
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Science Daily - Cellulosic Ethanol: Fuel of the Future?
Monday, February 19th, 2007Science Daily runs through some of the ways the US could meet President Bush’s goal to produce 35 billion gallons a year of renewable and alternative fuels by 2017. The best way to meet this goal is to produce cellulosic ethanol, according to Chris Somerville, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University [...]
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Scientists are taking 2nd look at biofuels - International Herald Tribune
Saturday, February 10th, 2007Biofuels, long a cornerstone of the quest for greener energy, may sometimes produce more harmful emissions than the fossil fuels they replace, scientific studies are finding.read more | digg story
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Time Magazine - A Tour of the Energy Future
Friday, January 26th, 2007Time Magazine has a really neat article online that lists some of the more cutting edge projects going on in the field of alternative energy. It seems that MIT has taken a bunch of its smartest scientists and created an Energy Research Council to “declare war on the energy crisis.” [...]
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California Prop 87 defeated
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Proposition 87, which would have imposed an extraction fee on all oil company drilling in California, with the money being used to fund alternative energy projects, has been voted down by the California voters by 55 to 45 percent. The San Francisco Chronicle has some more information on the voting, along [...]
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The EnergyBlog - The Little Engine that Could
Saturday, October 28th, 2006The Energy Blog today has an article about a new engine that researchers at MIT are developing in collaboration with Ford. This gasoline engine, which injects a small amount of ethanol at times of peak demand (i.e. acceleration) can deliver the same power as current engines at a much smaller size and weight, [...]
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Business Opportunities in Biofuel and Alternative Energy
Saturday, October 14th, 2006There were several articles in the Investors Business Daily today describing companies working in the biofuel area, including big companies likeArcher Daniels Midland, Royal Dutch Shell, Siemens, and Dupont, along with a small company named DynaMotive Energy Systems that uses a fast pyrolysis technology to change organic waste into a fuel oil they call BioOil. [...]
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Saab combining biofuel and hybrids
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006In an article on BBCNews, Saab unveiled a new concept car called the Bio Power Hybrid, with an engine that combines E85 with a hybrid. No word yet on when this could hit the market.
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Oil’s used for a lot more than driving around
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006Most of the headlines that you see about biofuel are about making fuel for your car. But oil is used for alot more than transportation and energy. Its used to make plastics, and lots of other industial chemicals - even pharmaceuticals. James Dumesic, a University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineering [...]
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From OutsidetheBeltway.com - Biobutanol better than ethanol?
Saturday, June 24th, 2006Outsidethebeltway.com describes a new biofuel from Dupont and BP called biobutanol that sounds very promising. According to the article, biobutanol provides 95% of the energy of gasoline compared to 75% for ethanol. Conventional gasoline engines can use more biobutanol without modifications than the 5-10% blend that is the limit for ethanol. [...]
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