Tag: Alternative Fuels - Page 8
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First Commercial Algae-to-Biofuels Facility Goes Online
Energy company PetroSun's algae-to-biofuel facility in Rio Hondo, Texas is expected to begin functioning tomorrow, April 1. The farm consists of 1,100 acres of
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German Parliament Building to be Greenest in the World
That big glowing dome on Berlin's skyline? Soon it will be even greener. Plans are underway to make the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, the greenest parliament building in the world. Beginning this summer, the building will run solely on
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Do Average Americans Have Better Answers Than Car Companies?
Listen up, auto manufacturers. When the people start inventing better cars because you are not doing it, you lose cred. So get your gearheads in gear and follow step with the folks in this ABC piece on how to save money by reducing fuel use. For
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New York International Auto Show Is Good, Not Perfect
"We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," says Charlie Territo from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, as we weave our way through the latest and greatest green technologies at this year's New York International Auto Show.
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Facts, Figures, and Charts from Plan B 3.0
If it can be said that I have a hobby, it would probably be data. Numbers fascinate me.
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Biofuels as Help or Hindrance: WorldChanging Digs Deep
Biofuels have been getting a rough ride in the media recently. Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing
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Sacramento Police Sup Up Their Ride
On a breezy Wednesday morning, just as the clouds were breaking, the sun was shining through and the birds were starting to chirp, the Mayor of Sacramento Heather Fargo, wearing a green sweater and green leaf earrings, announced that the city is taking
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The TH Interview: Mike Mason of Climate Care, part 2
Mike Mason is the founder of Climate Care, one of the world's first carbon offset providers which recently celebrated selling 1 million tonnes of offsets so far, and has just opened an office in Australia. Since the beginning, Climate Care has focused
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The TH Interview: Mike Mason of Climate Care, part 1
Mike Mason is the founder of Climate Care, one of the world's first carbon offset providers which recently celebrated selling 1 million tonnes of offsets so far, and has just opened an office in Australia. Since the beginning, Climate Care has focused
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Solar Plane Grounded for Lack of Funds
We first heard about Bertrand Piccard and his plan to fly around the world in the solar-powered SolarImpulse in 2005. Now it's time for an update. After raising $60 million, the swiss adventurer is only $30 million short of his goal, and currently
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Three Ways to Piss Off the French
"Studies" that arrive at conclusions long since known raise a serious question: who finances this work? In one of the most egregious cases of not trusting the available wisdom and having to prove it to themselves, the French National Centre for
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Are Ethanol Mandates Good Economics? Maybe Not.
A few days before the story on oil from waste paper and other sources of lignocellulose hit the wires, the Australian Parliament released its research paper entitled, "The economic effects of an ethanol mandate." It looks at the costs and benefits
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Sweet! Sugarcane is Australia's New Renewable Energy
For the first time in over 125 years sugar cane farmers, in one region of Australia will not burn their crop at harvest time. Instead they will ship the still green waste and cane residue to a new 30 megawatt plants, where it will be burnt to generate
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Most Huggable: Is Wool the Answer?, Biofuel Bonanza, Fluoride Bad for Babies + More
Could wool be the answer to killer cotton?
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Move Over Sheik Oil and Peak Oil. Now it's Geek Oil
Yep, some boffins believe they can make what they call a bio-crude oil, using their secret Furafuel technology. Dr Steven Loffler of Forest Biosciences with Australia’s government science research body, CSIRO and his white coated mates at Monash
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Algae Towers, Carbon Nanotubes Coming to a City Near You
A hydrogen-producing algae tower is one of the Blade Runner-worthy visionary ideas for urban development that emerged during the City of the Future Contest San Francisco, sponsored by the History Channel. (Interest in algae as a biodiesel seems to be
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A Supermarket Powered By Tomatoes? Dream On.
Chocolate, human waste, body heat - energy is starting to come from more and more unusual sources these days, and now it's the turn of the humble tomato, which is powering the checkouts, lights and fridges of a new Waitrose supermarket in
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Soil Health: You Can Help
Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." Our civilization depends on the fertility of soil, yet soil scientist Daniel Richter says the soils of the world have been so changed by humans that it is now
