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Canola Oil Powered Car Wins Race from Berkeley to Vegas
A Vegetable-Oil Powered Car in the Race, Photo Credit: SF Chronicle Escape from Berkeley Last week gasless cars raced across California to Vegas, in pursuit of not only a $5,000 prize but also the chance to show the world the possibilities of running a
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Synthetic CO2 Scrubbers, Hydrogen Microcabs and A Tree-Powered Sensor
:: Could synthetic trees be used as CO2 scrubbers?
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A World's First Hydrogen Generation Plant In Japan
Hydrogen, touted by many sources as the carbon neutral "energy of the future", has been receiving more and more attention lately in both environmental circles and the popular press. Although not everyone is convinced hydrogen is the solution to our
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Plastic Turned Into Crude Oil by Plas2Fuel: Carbon Footprint Unknown
A couple weeks back we learned that the amount of plastic in landfills could be worth billions of dollars if it were mined and recycled. Well, if Plas2Fuel has any say in it, a good portion of that plastic (and other plastics that
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Mitsubishi i MiEV Electric Car to Invade Iceland
The Mitsubishi i MiEV is one of the most promising electric vehicles in development (as you loyal TreeHugger readers are likely aware). And now they could become the most prevalent car in Iceland.
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Tar Sand Investments Could Be Oil Industry's Version of the Sub-Prime Meltdown
We've covered the environmental risks of tar sands many times. However, a new report co-authored by Greenpeace and PLATFORM outlines the possible financial risks faced by companies such as Shell and BP which invest heavily in tar
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Jargon Watch: GeoExchange
When I previously wrote a post on Jargon Watch: Geothermal vs Ground Source Heat Pump, suggesting that the use of the word geothermal to describe ground source heat pumps was inappropriate, it caused some controversy in comments, including my
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Dutch Biomass Plant to Use Chicken Manure to Power 90,000 Homes
Image: Paul de Lhama on flickrIn the latest development of large-scale biomass energy production, the Netherlands is now home to the world’s largest biomass power plant running only on – yep, you got it – chicken manure. Though biomass energy schemes
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Former Chief UK Scientist Calls for Complete Removal of Fossil Fuel Dependence
Particle Physics, Mars Landings, or the Future of Civilization? The former Chief UK Scientist, Sir David King, has made the pages of TreeHugger before with his predictions that plans to stabilize atmospheric CO2 emissions under 450 parts per million
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Learn to Build a Do It Yourself Biomass Gasifier
When TreeHugger featured Robert "Chip" Beaman's Wood Powered Pickup Truck, readers commented, aghast at the potential for humanity to destroy woodland resources if transportation infrastructure were to switch to wood gasification. Therefore, for your
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The End of Aviation: What Will Happen When We Can't Afford To Fly?
Bradford Plumer writes in the New Republic about the most radical transition that we may have to make in the post-carbon world: the end of cheap commercial flight. Airlines aren't very profitable with expensive fuel, and 25
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Formula Zero World Premiere in Rotterdam, Motosport at its Cleanest
Rotterdam, home of the first Sustainable Dance Club due to open next month, the Happy Shrimp Farm and Enviu eco-innovators, to only name a few, is now hosting the world's first international championship for fuel cell powered racers this August 22 -
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The TH Interview: Chris Page—The Green Yahoo
Climate impact might not be the first thing on your mind when jumping on a search engine (unless you're searching "climate impact"). But much is going on behind the scenes of these ethereal data dealers of search. Yahoo! has recruited its secret
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Blowing Hot and Cold on Ground Source Heat Pumps
The people at Green Building Elements do their usual thorough explanation of GSHPs, or ground source heat pumps (which I still refuse to call geothermal) saying that :
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Holy Cow! Manure-to-Biogas Could Generate 3 Percent of US Electric Demand
photo by Chris Austin
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A Dung Deal: Making Power from Poop
At a properly run farm, "nothing is waste. Everything is a resource. It's just a matter of harvesting." With 750 cows, Laurie Stanton's farm has a lot of manure to harvest. Martin Mittelstaedt writes in
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Matt Simmons and Peak Oil: How to Silence Fast Money Team
Peak Oil Changes Everything We already know that talk of peak oil makes a lot of people uncomfortable, even if the talking is done by young women in lingerie. But to see just how uncomfortable folks can get when they start hearing about the end of cheap
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How to Save Fuel Costs with a Wood-Powered Pickup Truck
Robert "Chip" Beam built his own wood-powered pickup truck. The wood-burning, or rather wood-gas burning truck is now a sort of mascot for Beaver Energy, the Williamsport, Pennsylvania based startup company Beam and partners Larry Shilling and Aron
