Posts Tagged ‘Alternative Fuel’
By NunoXEI • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Why hire a guy on a lawnmower when you can rent 200 goats to do the same job? I’d have to imagine going the gas-powered lawn mower route would b the cheaper option–but for Google, making a statement about the environment goes side by side with their company slogan of “Do no Evil”.
Google’s Mountain View [...]
By NunoXEI • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Last week I posted news concerning an alternative energy source derived from human waste–and more particularly our “biosolids”. This has lead, quite randomly and conveniently to another bit of waste-to-energy news I’ve come across. If you thought making energy out of crap was exciting, how about making gasoline out of varied waste products?
An agreement between [...]
By NunoXEI • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog
San Antonio unveiled a deal on Tuesday that will make it the first U.S. city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale and turn it into clean-burning fuel. (Reuters.com)
How exactly? Well, you create a way to gather a city population’s feces–and ANY city has an abundance of this potty-matter the industry [...]
By NunoXEI • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Michael Pereira, Greenpeace–Not to long ago we thought that biofuels would be a good way to reduce global warming by cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In reality, biofuels could actually increase GHG emissions if we consider their effects over their entire life cycle.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Martin LaMonica, Green Tech Blog–A growing number of start-ups are betting against the dominant biofuel crops–corn and soy–and looking to sidestep the backlash against biofuels, which are being blamed in part for higher food prices and deforestation around the world.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Matt Jansen, Tech.Blorge–Electricity can be generated using a variety of sources and to deliver it only requires a wire. Other sources like gasoline and propane require extraction, containers, storage space, and physical delivery. Realizing that and the trend toward gasoline price anxiety, Chevy is considering an all-electric version of the Volt.
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
U.S. registrations of new hybrid vehicles rose 38% in 2007 to a record 350,289, according to data released Monday by R.L. Polk & Co., an automotive marketing and research company.
Hybrids made up just 2.2% of the U.S. market share for the year, but they were growing steadily even as overall sales declined 3%.
Lonnie Miller, director [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Biofuels will not solve the world’s energy problem, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell said on Sunday, amid growing criticism of their environmental and social benefits.
The remarks follow protests in Brazil and Europe against fuels derived from food crops. Food shortages and rising costs have set off rioting and protests in countries including Haiti, [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Blog
The air travel industry has been quietly evaluating ways to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. Airlines can only raise ticket prices so high to compensate for rising fuel costs without losing customers, and the industry’s reputation as a climate change villain is an increasing threat to profits. Airlines are facing several incentives to change [...]
