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22 May 2007 posted in Green 8 views
AutoblogGreen for 05.22.07 Well, chopping your car in half certainly is one way to reduce weight. And lightweight cars usually get better gas mileage than heavier cars, but I'm not sure if these will overcome the increased fric ...
Tags: mercedes benz, gas mileage, hybrid bus, bob lutz, mpv, honda fit, green car, kia rio, biomass, big rig, wal mart, seat altea, nissan versa, carbon emissions, autobloggreen, abg, energy storage system, full size cars, lightweight cars, system group
27 May 2006 posted in Green 10 views
Hydrogen: Hope or hype? A number of automakers, notably General Motors, are holding out hydrogen fuel cells as the ultimate solution to everything from global warming to the world's dependency on increasingly expensive oil. ...
Tags: automakers, biodiesel, biomass, toy car, hydrogen research, storage solutions, hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen infrastructure, fuel cell technologies, auto fuel, fossil fuel source, automobile future, hydrogen highway, horizon fuel cell technologies, commercial solution, immediate solutions, technology entrepreneurs, viable solutions, opportunity cost, ultimate solution
21 March 2006 posted in Green 11 views
Can the world grow out of its gasoline addiction with the help of biomass? According to a new article in Wired, saw corn stalks and wood scraps may be the salve to ease the world's seemingly insatiable appetite for oil. Scientists are hard at work working on 'bio oil,' bioma ...
Tags: gasoline, one billion, biomass, addiction, new article, oxygen, scientists, petroleum reserves, salve, insatiable appetite, organic detritus, corn stalks, wood scraps, bio oil, pyrolysis
24 August 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 11 views
Willie Nelson gets into biofuels and Texas politics It's not often we get the chance to combine politics, a country music legend, and sustainable energy into an Autoblog post, so pardon us while we enjoy the opportunity. Kinky Friedman, the latest ecce ...
Tags: soybean, willie nelson, biomass, energy independence, diesel fuel, country music legend, kinky friedman, energy czar, texas politics, biofuels, energy market, substantial difference, trouble with the law, vegetable oil, sustainable energy, saudis, jukebox
19 January 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 6 views
Almost a reason to read About.com So I got suckered. I was lured in to an About.com post by Philip Powell on the promise that I was going to get a story about Darryl Hannah's 1983 diesel El Camino that she runs on biomass. Now that's ...
Tags: rudolph diesel, darryl hannah, philip powell, environmentalist, biomass