Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

With the progress being made on alternative fuel vehicles along with more stringent emissions regulations, companies are looking to new ways to transport goods, ways that will reduce their environmental impact. photo: Valence Technology Driven in part by tougher federal and state emissions rules and in part by the recession and uncertain fuel prices, many [...]

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Racing goes green with a car developed in Britain that runs on biofuels. With its belching exhausts, acres of tarmac track and tendency to truck tons of cars and equipment around the globe to compete, motor racing could easily take pole position as the world’s least environmentally friendly sport. Potato fuselage?: A look down into [...]

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Today, the idea of producing biofuel to power automobiles is gaining ground in the research and development areas of major companies, including Exxon-Mobile. “ExxonMobil has always been like the grinch that stole clean tech,” says Udupa. “And then all of a sudden they’re investing a lot of money in this one algae company.” The company [...]

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Two new genomic research projects in British Columbia (Canada), largely funded by Genome British Columbia, are investigating two separate aspects of forestry biofuels in the province Dr. Jack Saddler, Dean of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, is leading a C$1.1-million (US$1.0-million) project entitled, Optimizing Ethanol Fermentation From Mountain Pine Beetle Killed Lodgepole Pine. [...]

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The Texas State Energy Conservation Office keeps a list of links related to alternative fuels. That list is on their site at: http://www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/alt_links.htm. The link categories show various initiatives and areas of interest: Organizations Online Resources Fuel Calculator Tools Biofuels Ethanol Biodiesel Clean Diesel Propane & Natural Gas Hybrids Hydrogen & Fuel Cells

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The New York Time summarizes alternative energy strategies afoot with Exxon. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/16/16greenwire-some-see-exxon-investments-into-alt-energy-sig-14080.html “I think they see changes to the energy system coming over the next decades,” said Michael Webber, an energy expert and engineering professor at the University of Texas. “It’s pretty transparent that the energy field will be different 30 years from now. They’re [...]

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