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When you think of driving a car fueled by hydrogen, are you like the majority of the uneducated public that right away brings up the Hindenburg disaster? Do you think your car will explode in an accident? If you are, please read on and educate yourself and others as to the TRUTH about HYDROGEN!
Hydrogen is SAFER than gasoline!!!When you think of driving a car fueled by hydrogen, are you like the majority of the... more
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"Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out for gas and food, but it could get a whole lot worse. Just ask the North Koreans.
By John Feffer
Gas prices are above $4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39% last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global economy appears on the verge of a TKO, a triple whammy from energy, agriculture, and climate-change trends. Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out at the pump and the grocery store; but, unless policymakers begin to address all three of these trends as one major crisis, it could get a whole lot worse.
Just ask the North Koreans.
In the 1990s, North Korea was the world's canary...""Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out... more
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Interesting ideas for the solutions to this mess we're in.
A dash of Obama criticism, and a dash of hope..
"All of this may sound impossibly idealistic. However, it is far more idealistic to believe we can continue on our current path without massive social and economic breakdowns and increasingly severe ecological disasters. What we have been conditioned to want as individuals becomes immaterial when the planet is no longer willing to support our way of life."
-quoted from the articleInteresting ideas for the solutions to this mess we're in.
A dash of Obama... more
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Can't wait until innovation like this hits our shelves.
Energy from water (not a fuel cell)Can't wait until innovation like this hits our shelves.
Energy from water (not... more
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SAN JOSE, CA (KGO) -- About a year ago, CEO's in Silicon Valley challenged one another to start driving electric. On the eve of a huge conference in San Jose, high tech leaders say the plug-in movement is well underway.
Last week Tom Hayse was getting 40 miles a gallon driving his hybrid Prius. That was before his plug-in conversion and a lithium battery packed in the back.
"With the plug-in hybrid, I'm getting actually getting close to 80 miles a gallon, so I'm pretty happy with that."
Tom is one of 30 Silicon Valley CEO's and community leaders who have pledged to be part of what they call the 'plug-in revolution'.
"If only ten percent of the million or so Prius owners converted their cars like we're doing, the price of the battery conversion would come down," says Sass Somekh, Ph.D of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
SAN JOSE, CA (KGO) -- About a year ago, CEO's in Silicon Valley challenged one... more
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When T. Boone Pickens discusses energy policy with Democrats and Republicans this week, neither side may like all that they hear.
With average gasoline prices above $4 a gallon, energy issues have come to dominate the legislative debate this summer and both parties have sought the counsel of the oilman/investment whiz/wind power promoter.
What does Pickens, a geologist before he was a billionaire, think of the debate?
“There’s nothing they are saying that is going to solve the problem,” he told The Hill.
For example, Pickens doesn’t expect much oil to be found off the coasts. That would seem to undercut the Republican push to open the areas to drilling.
“The public thinks, ‘Well, God. If we got 86 billion barrels of oil sitting out there, why don’t we go drill it and produce it and lower the price of gasoline to $2?’ That’s kind of the way it’s been characterized. Which I think is totally misleading,” he said (editor’s note: A transcription of the interview will appear in the Business & Lobbying section of Tuesday’s edition of The Hill).
That should bolster Democratic leaders who are resisting pressure to drill, although Pickens does support conducting seismic studies to get a better handle on potential resources.
What about Democratic efforts to rein in “speculation,” a push that Democrats in both the House and Senate may make this week?
Pickens doesn’t think much of that idea, either.
“It’s a waste of time. Doesn’t have anything to do with it. … Everybody tries to place the blame, and the blame is our own lack of leadership over the past 40 years on energy.”
Pickens’s main mission in Washington this week is to promote the Pickens Plan (www.pickensplan.com.), his effort to use natural gas as a transportation fuel instead of as a source of electricity.
Wind power would replace the natural gas on the grid. And natural gas would replace gasoline, saving the country $700 billion over 10 years that would otherwise go to buy foreign oil, he said.
When T. Boone Pickens discusses energy policy with Democrats and Republicans this... more
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America is addicted to foreign oil.
It's an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. It touches every part of our daily lives and ties our hands as a nation and a people.
The addiction has worsened for decades and now it's reached a point of crisis.
Click link to read on and join the causeAmerica is addicted to foreign oil.
It's an addiction that threatens our... more
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IT'S TIME TO STOP AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL
America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.
Watch this video and see this solution. Then join if you agree
To view full website and join click here http://www.pickensplan.com/index.php
IT'S TIME TO STOP AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL
America is in a... more
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This 2 minute version of the documentry shows us ho GM had an electric car the would have helped us ween off of foreign oil & GM killed the idea by CRUSHING all the cars, none exist..... Also shows why Bush's hydrogen cell is not a good idea.This 2 minute version of the documentry shows us ho GM had an electric car the would... more
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Since it's 'death' the electric car seems to be under a race for revival.
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India's Tata Motors goes the extra mile in automotive engineering with a Compressed Air Hybrid. According to Clayton B. Cornell's contribution to gas2.org's essay "An Air Car You Could See in 2009: ZPM’s 106 MPG Compressed-Air Hybrid" (15 July 2008), a Compressed-Air Powered car could get up to 800 miles on a single fill-up and top driving speed at 96 mph. Tata Motors is the world's first automotive manufacturer that is licensing the engineering technology from Luxembourg company MDI to produce compression-air powered vehicles for the commercial market, and is expecting to launch the vehicle later this year. Read more from Clayton's article, and how compression-air powered engineering classifies cars that use this technology as zero emissions vehicles.India's Tata Motors goes the extra mile in automotive engineering with a... more
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Humans are consuming more oil, more food ... more of everything than ever before. And as modern societies become more dependent on the resources they exploit, we're beginning to see signs that we may be pushing the planet to its limits. Vanguard and Collective Journalists explore the far-reaching consequences of this global fight for resources.Humans are consuming more oil, more food ... more of everything than ever before. And... more
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With all the talk of Ethiopians starving because farmland is being diverted to planting crops that are to be processed into biofuel, but are uneatable I figured this would be a great read. Thank you Guardian...
The Royal Society, the European Commission and the UK government have all managed, in the last few days, to take the wind out of the sails of the biofuel industry, publishing reports that suggest biofuels could be causing more harm than good, the crops not being as environmentally friendly as first thought, with the Commons environmental audit committee calling for a moratorium on biofuel targets until more research can be done.
What struck me as astonishing about these reports is that they all managed to ignore the one crop which has been successfully used for many years to create bioethanol and biodiesel, is environmentally friendlier to produce than sugar beet, palm oil, corn or any of the crops mentioned in the report and can grow in practically any temperate to hot climate leaving the ground in better condition than when it was planted.
That plant is hemp.
Last year, the Conservative MP David Maclean tabled a question to the then environment secretary, Ian Pearson, asking what assessment had been made about the potential to grow hemp as a biofuel crop in England. Pearson responded:
Research into the potential of hemp as a biofuel crop suggests it is not currently competitive compared to other sources of biomass. However, hemp does have a number of high-value end uses. For example, as a fibre crop it is used in car panels, construction and as horse bedding. In addition, hempseed oil is used in food, cosmetics and various industrial applications. As a result, there is little interest in this country at present in growing it for biofuel production.
So the government cannot point to ignorance of hemp's uses, which makes hemp's omission from any of the recent reports even more perplexing.
The fact that hemp does not need to have land cleared to grow it, grows faster than any of the crops currently used and leaves the ground in a better state when it is harvested should surely be enough for it to be considered a perfect crop to offset the carbon currently produced by fossil fuels and by the less efficient biofuels currently being so roundly criticised by the various official research bodies.
The influential Biodiesel magazine reported last year on the cultivation of hemp as a biofuel and it too could only point to its lack of economic competitiveness (due to its minimal production) as a reason for not seeing it as a viable biofuel. But surely if it was mass-produced, this one drawback could be overcome and its many benefits as an efficient biofuel could be harnessed.
As far as research and implementation of hemp for biofuel, the US is way ahead of Europe and there are a range of websites dedicated to the use of hemp as a fuel for cars.
In the UK, companies such as Hemp Global Solutions have been set up very much with climate change and the reduction of carbon emissions in mind, but there is little, if any, research in this country that has looked into the viability of the hemp plant as a fuel for cars.
So why was there not a single mention of this miracle crop, that, in addition to being able to be used as fuel, can also be used as paper, cloth, converted into plastic and is a rich food source containing high levels of protein?With all the talk of Ethiopians starving because farmland is being diverted to... more
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"While airlines and automakers struggle to minimize their losses as fuel prices keep climbing, at least one transportation company is thriving. French rail operator, SNCF, scored a profit of over $1.7 billion in 2007 and expects to do even better this year. SNCF operates the TGV trains that routinely travel at speeds up to 200 mph in commercial service. Unlike here in the US, rail companies in Europe and Asia have actually invested in the infrastructure and equipment to make train travel fast and reliable. Admittedly, in the days of cheap fuel, Americans had little interest in trains, but maybe they need to reconsider.""While airlines and automakers struggle to minimize their losses as fuel prices... more
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“STOP Wasting Tons Of Money On Gas — Here Are The Secrets Huge Oil Companies Don’t Want You To Know About Hybrid Cars And Running Your Car On Water”Convert Your Car To Run On Water and Gas Today To Double Your Gas Mileage and Save Thousands Of Dollars On your Fuel Costs!“STOP Wasting Tons Of Money On Gas — Here Are The Secrets Huge Oil... more
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Can water really power a car. According to this site, with their easy $150 do-it-yourself conversion kit, any conventional gas vehicle can run on a mix of gasoline and tap water, thus cutting petrol use nearly in half. While I'm sure with fuel prices as high as there are we can expect a never ending stream of suspect fuel and money saving schemes to confuse consumers, and despie the somewhat chintzy web design, here is the video pitch.Can water really power a car. According to this site, with their easy $150... more
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"Smart Energy Stuff offers a variety of solar-powered golf carts, from $6,000 to $9,000. The costs are on par with those of regular electric-powered golf carts, but they come with the added sweetener of one-time state and federal tax credits of up to $990.
"Things are tight," said Njoku, a Nigerian-born New York City transplant who has lived in Fayetteville with his wife for the past three years, "and tight people are holding onto their money. What we're trying to do is give them products that will save them money and also be very green."
Smart Energy Stuff sells other solar-powered products, such as a sun-powered water heater, electric panels and outdoor lights.
A self-professed "solar geek," Njoku said he is a civil engineer and architect by trade with a natural affinity for cars and all things solar."
Just saw this and I think it's great! "Smart Energy Stuff offers a variety of solar-powered golf carts, from $6,000 to... more
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With Gas prices close to $5. per gallon Shell has opened the First Hydrogen fuel station in the state of California. Hydrogen is much cleaner and greener for the environment. The station is located in Santa Monica, CA.With Gas prices close to $5. per gallon Shell has opened the First Hydrogen fuel... more
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By eliminating the need for gasoline and dependency on foreign oil Hydrogen fuel can change the way we all drive. It is much cleaner, and much greener for the environment and California has now opened the first and only one in the entire state. Located in Santa Monica California.
IBy eliminating the need for gasoline and dependency on foreign oil Hydrogen fuel can... more
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Vertigro.
tailoring lipids one algae strand at a time?
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