Truly, plug-in vehicles look to be a key near term leap forward toward a better energy future in the transportation system. The Chevy Volt made a splash as a potential PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) for the passenger market. Now, an effort is surfacing to do this with utility vehicles and vans in southern California. […]
Plugging in that truck and van …
February 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Plugging in that truck and van …
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Algae bio-diesel …
February 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Algae bio-diesel …
Algae bio-diesel has been gaining increasing attention in the past several years.  Algae has relatively high oil content, after processing the remnants can be used for other things (even burning for electricity, with the ash as fertilizer), and the path to producing algae ‘seems’ so straightforward: water, sunlight, and nutrients. And, one of algae’s great […]
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Dressing “cool” for a Warmer World … Diesel …
February 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Dressing “cool” for a Warmer World … Diesel …
Perhaps the name is right — Diesel, as in diesel fuel that is helping warm the world, has an aggressive and ever so hip ad campaign that shows us that living in a world suffering the havoc of Global Warming doesn’t, after all, need to mean that we won’t be fashionable. After all, one of […]
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