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 the cockpit [...]
Green racing? Briton develops car from food (from CNN.com)
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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“Green goo” biofuel gets a boost (from CNN.com)
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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 kept enthusiasm [...]
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Two Genomic Research Projects in British Columbia Tackle Issues in Emerging Forestry Biofuels Industry (from Green Car Congress)
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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.
“Trees are [...]
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State of Texas’ Energy Conservation Office (SECO): Alternative Fuels Links
August 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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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Some See Exxon Investments Into Alt Energy Signaling ‘Paradigm Shift’ for Big Oil (From The New York Times)
July 31st, 2009 · No Comments
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 an [...]
