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Sunday, March 4th, 2007From MIT Technology Review - an update on using algae to reduce greenhouse gases and produce fuel. Solix Biofuels, LiveFuels, and GreenFuel Technology (which I’ve posted on previously) are mentioned, along with their strategies. For example, Solix Biofuels is using algae to make “just about anything that can be […]
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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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New Alternative Energy Ideas in Florida
Monday, February 19th, 2007Florida has $15 million in grant money available for alternative and renewable energy projects - this money was made available as part of its 2006 Energy Act passed last spring. When lawmakers passed the Act, they expected to get about 75 proposals, but so far, 180 proposals are waiting to be reviewed […]
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Nissan Altima Hybrid - Great Deal?
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Nissan today announced their pricing for the new 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid, which is the company’s first hybrid car.
Nissan priced the Altima Hybrid $1,800 less than the comparable Toyota Camry Hybrid, and according to this blog entry from Wired Autopia, the payback period for the hybrid over the regular Altima is between 3.5 and 4 […]
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Report: Renewable Energy could deliver 50% of the world’s energy needs by 2050
Monday, January 29th, 2007A report just out by the European Renewable Energy Council and Greenpeace International provides a global energy strategy that would cut CO2 emissions by almost 50% over the next 43 years. This strategy outlines ways to achieve renewable energy supplies delivering 70% of the global electricity supply and 65% of the global […]
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Hybrid Coalition
Saturday, January 27th, 2007According to World Magazine, former CIA director R. James Woosley owns a Toyota Prius with a bumper sticker on the back that reads, “Bin Laden hates this car.” The article talks about the Set America Free Coalition, a group that consists of “tree huggers, do-gooders, sodbusters, cheap hawks, and evangelicals…and Willie Nelson.” […]
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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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Walmart Helping to Develop Hybrid Truck
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Walmart has started working with a company named ArvinMeritor to develop a new diesel-electric hybrid truck. In a news release this week, both companies said that they had agreed to develop a “dual-mode, diesel-electric drivetrain for a class 8 truck.” The Class 8 truck is considered the “workhorse of […]
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Jews Campaign for Oil Conservation
Sunday, December 24th, 2006Whittier Daily News -
“Rabbi Ron Stern has scanned the parking lot at Stephen S. Wise Temple and seen the same gas-guzzling cars that dominate Los Angeles freeways.
He’s turned the ignition of his own SUV and known he was contributing to America’s reliance on foreign oil.
But after realizing that America’s driving habits help […]
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Bush Pledges to Work With Democrats in 2007 to Cut Oil Imports
Thursday, December 21st, 2006From Bloomberg Dec 20th - President Bush pledged to work with Democrats in 2007 to spend more to develop other sources of fuel. In the President’s State of the Union address in 2006, Bush asked Congress for a 22% increase in research spending for solar, wind, nuclear, ethanol, and hydrogen power. […]
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