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Thursday, June 18th, 2009If you want to trade in your gas guzzler for a new more fuel efficient car, there’s a good chance you can get a substantial cash voucher for your old car. The US Senate today passed their version of the cash-for-clunkers bill - it will give rebates to new car buyers buying more fuel efficient [...]
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Plastic from sugar, not oil
Saturday, September 27th, 2008Genomatica, a San Diego based company, plans to have a pilot plant up and running next year that will produce 1,4 butanediol (BDO) from bacteria. Currently, oil is needed by plastic manufacturers to make BDO. BDO is the base chemical in the production of plastics.
‘”We are able to couple the growth of [...]
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Cyclone Power Technologies clean, green waste heat engine
Sunday, June 15th, 2008EngineeringTV has a couple of video interviews and demos with Harry Schoel, whose company Cyclone Power has developed a self-starting engine called a WHE (waste heat engine) that operates in a low pressure, low temperature range. What this means is that the Cyclone Power WHE can run on low temperature waste heat - think [...]
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Seeking Alpha - Oil Prices, Electric Cars and the Wisdom of Carlos Ghosn
Thursday, January 31st, 2008I found this very interesting article over at SeekingAlpha.com today. In it, Jim Kingsdale talks about 3 lessons from Carlos Ghosn, who is chief executive of Renault-Nissan. The three lessons are:
The world is split into two distinct economies, one stable and one growing rapidly.
Jevon’s Paradox is alive and well in India [...]
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Auto Industry shows off fuel-efficiency
Sunday, January 13th, 2008The Associated Press has a pretty nice summary of what they’ve seen so far at the North American Auto show, which started today. While alot of what gets shown in these shows are concept cars that never will become available, there seems to be a consensus that this year’s auto show may be [...]
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Sierra Nevada brewery a fuel cell pioneer
Sunday, December 16th, 2007It takes alot of energy to make beer. So when Sierra Nevada’s founder and owner Ken Grossman decided he wanted to cut his energy bill, he installed a large solar panel arrary over the parking lot, and now he’s building an even bigger system on top of his brewery buildings.
But he isn’t stopping there.
Sierra Nevada is now generating methane as a result of recycling of its waste water. ’We are producing methane as [...]
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Global Resource - Squeezing oil and gas from old tires and other stuff
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Popular Science’s Green Tech recently gave Frank Pringle and his company, Global Resource, it’s “Best of What’s New” award for 2007. Mr. Pringle has developed a recycling machine, called the HAWK 10, that uses microwaves to break down and extract oil and gas from waste such as old automobile tires. This isn’t [...]
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Google thinks green to power its business
Monday, November 12th, 2007Computerworld has a nice wrapup of all the different things that Google is doing to reach its goal of creating 50 megawatts of renewable generating capacity for its operations by 2012. From 9,212 solar panels covering eight rooftops at Google’s Mountain View, Calif headquarters to older flourescent bulbs with newer more energy efficient [...]
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Toyota getting hit after opposing toughest fuel-economy legislation
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Lots of bad press for Toyota after the carmaker sided with US carmakers in opposing the toughest of several fuel-economy proposals now being debated in Congress. Toyota, despite its lead in the hybrid race, opposes the proposed 35 mpg by 2020 proposal in the Senate n favor of the Hill-Terry House bill that [...]
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Ethanol, schmethanol
Monday, October 1st, 2007I saw a small blurb in Computer Power User about Amyris Biotechnologies, a firm that “uses genetics to transform a sugary liquid mixture into a petroleum-like mix that, right out of the box, could be run through existing pipelines, gas stations and automotive engines with no retro-fitting necessary.” Intrigued, I did a little [...]
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