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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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Hydro-charger launched in Queenstown, New Zealand
Sunday, December 17th, 2006We mentioned the Hydro-charger a couple of weeks ago and mentioned that the official launch of this hydrogen on demand system for internal combustion engines was to be officially launched on Dec 11th. At the event, the Hydro-charger was demoed in “a variety of applications including cars, buses, farm equipment and even [...]
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Mileage From Megawatts: Study Finds Enough Electric Capacity To ‘Fill Up’ Plug-in Vehicles
Thursday, December 14th, 2006There have been concerns about what happens when plug-in hybrids become a reality - will the pollution just shift from cars to power plants due to the need to build more plants with higher capacity? A new study from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows that even if all the cars and light [...]
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Energy saving Hydro-charger to be launched in New Zealand
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006In a recent press release, Renewable Energy New Zealand is claiming that New Zealand company Vision Energy will shortly launch a “breakthrough device that can be retrofitted to any internal combustion engine to save fuel and reduce carbon emissions.” The Hydro Fuel System Hydro-charger was developed by US companies Global Energy Options [...]
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USA Today - rundown on US States’ alternative energy legislation
Friday, November 24th, 2006USA Today has a short article detailing some of recent proposed legislation going on in various US states to increase the use of alternative energy.
The states mentioned include California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Colorado.
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Walmart pushing green concepts
Sunday, November 19th, 2006We’ve linked to a couple of articles in the past about how Walmart has been at the forefront of trying out alternative energy ideas for its stores. Walmart is one of the largest, if not the largest, commercial users of electricity in the world, and they have realized that any savings they can [...]
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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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From C|Net news: LEDs could start replacing lightbulbs soon
Saturday, November 4th, 2006Steven DenBaars, a professor of material science at the University of California spoke at the SEMI Nanoforum this week. He was talking about LED lightbulbs, which he expects to become economically feasible as replacements for regular lightbulbs in about two years, a shift that “could pave the way for massive electricity conservation.” [...]
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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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Prop 87 - California Ballot Proposal for Clean Energy
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Proposition 87, a California ballot proposal which taxes oil drilling and uses the revenue for alternatiive energy projects, is the subject of a Time magazine online article. Polls are showing that its pretty much a dead heat - supporters include Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Google founder Larry Page, and the usual Hollywood [...]
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