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Hemp Hemp Hemp: Becoming Legal, Its Time Has Come

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Hoorah Hoorah Hoorah! This is an Army exaltation, like when the whole Company, Battalion or Regiment gets a... more

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Algae Farm Aims to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel

1) Use algae to produce oxygen and Ethanol. 2) Feed oxygen to coal plant - get CO2 in return. 3) Feed C02 to algae to get more... more

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Toasted Chicken Feathers Make Better Hydrogen Tanks for Fuel-Cells

Hydrogen fuel cell technology is full of promise, but it's being held back by the problem of storing the dangerous gas safely... more

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Britain's first electric hire car launched

Adapted Toyota Prius can be charged from mains electricity. Pay-as-you-go car club members will be able to demonstrate their... more

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Hydrogen-powered Riversimple Urban Car unveiled, makes your hybrid green with envy

Smug about your 65 mpg Prius potential? Don't be. A little car from up-start Riversimple looks set to deliver the equivalent... more

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All You Need To Know About Biodiesel

he following is a guest post by Chelsea Green's Makenna Goodman: I remember a time when defenseless kids with hippie moms... more

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Cheaper fuel economy weakens auto safety

Though automakers are pushed by the Obama administration to produce smaller and lighter cars to contribute to cheaper fuel economy... more

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Obama to curb vehicle emissions

President Barack Obama is to announce strict limits on vehicle pollution that will set national standards across the US for the... more

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BP Ultimate takes you further

Ultimate Unleaded can take you up to 28 miles further, per tank. With such efficiency, we’ve worked out that if all the... more

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Paperwork Caused Fuel Waste in California Fire Fight

LOS ANGELES - When the fire devastating Santa Barbara broke out, tanker planes had to fly twice as far to load water and retardant... more

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This is my first article to tell people the best ideas to have sustainable fuel while having sustainable living and keeping the living standards good for all Americans including homeless Veterans.
Some people thinks in order to help the environment people need to be controlled, we need to suffer to help mother nature, pay high prices and unnecessary taxes, live in controlled apartment complexes instead of making homes more like nature and growing and planting more trees, and having fuel sources which would make our water standards of living poor because Ethanol (In my opinion) can take so much water and corn cobs America would go into a good crises and water crises which means high water bills, people can't have fun in their own pools, and lead to food riots and resource gangs and militants.
If thats what environmentalists want anymore then they must be screwed up because I have ideas that will save the environment and the American People.

Here are my ideas on sustainable fuel without sacrificing the standards of Westerners and finding a fuel source that doesn't suck like ethanol.

Well to first start I had made plans on scribd on how to make self producing energy stations that make money by producing the power themselves then selling that energy to cars that need them a much better and more cheaper business model then the middle man giving money to the oil companies causing prices to be way higher then what they should be.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9940103/Energy-Independent-Fuel-Stations-for-Cars-and-Energy-Independent-Electricity-for-Homes-and-Businesses

and so I decided to write an article to help the environment and economy with a sustainable fuel idea and put an end to the war against the poor.
One of my sustainable furl ideas is that we use energy as our main source of fuel, and that we start contests to where the government will award a grant to whoever makes the best energy generators that use no resources and then start mass producing them to people that wanted to run a gas station or already runs a gas station but this time it won't be gas, it will be a energy station to where cars come in and their cars have enough fuel to go more miles then the usual miles to the gallon on gas. The cars still have an alternator using the power of the wheels turning for things like the cigarette lighter (like a power port to hook up laptops, battery chargers, etc etc). The charging stations can use whatever clean fuel source at their disposal (No govt. regulations to screw things up again) except if the source hurts people but this system would be better then even mass transportation and even cars these days. The car would be quieter and even would run better and may be even weigh less which means it uses less energy fuel to run the car. It would also cut out the big oil corporation which has screwed the American people because there's no alternative to gas and even if there was it would be expensive. So if the stations where the ones to produce the fuel then it would bring back small businesses, allow small businesses to grow and yet stay small, it would mean all communities can make more money again bringing many old abandoned towns back to life and would cut out the greedy uncontrolled (Thanx to Bush) out of control corporations that would bring us into a depression for a buck. That means in English it would cut out the middle man portion and make former gas station owners into the fuel makers and distributors. Another sustainable fuel idea is to use garbage as a fuel source because part of the reason our environment is so polluted is because of so much landfills and utilizing that garbage could help put a death to landfills and then those landfills will be gone and more can live in areas that would have became landfills and less trees would be cut down which means we will still have oxygen instead of more carbon then oxygen.
So this is all I have to say, we can help the environment without tearing apart our living standards.This is my first article to tell people the best ideas to have sustainable fuel while having sustainable living and keeping the... more

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Biodiesel craze sparks string of fires

For some, trying to live green and beat high gas prices comes at a cost. Trying to live green and beat high gasoline prices,... more

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Greasy Rider

Running diesel engines on grease isn't anything new, but for those interested, there's a doc that's on the Web that... more

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Earth Day: 10 Big, Really Hard Things We Can Do to Save the Planet

Traditionally, this is a day devoted to making green accessible to all. It's a day when each of us is invited to take small,... more

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Global manhunt over $40 Million fuel theft

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - A former U.S. Army contractor convicted of stealing $40 million worth of fuel from a military base in Iraq... more

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Polar Meltdown Triggers International Arctic Landgrab

"Now that global warming is eliminating ice and changing coastlines, the five coastal nations are eager to start drawing lines on the seafloor.

But rights to polar resources won’t be determined by planting flags in a frontier-style land rush. Rather existing treaties will parcel out new territory based on submarine geology. That legal framework puts a whole new emphasis on mapping and exploring the ocean floor at the edge of what is technically possible, because those efforts will determine what areas a given country can exploit later. When the murk settles, the Arctic will likely hold on to only two small basins as the common heritage of humankind. The rest will be at the mercy of new ownership.

The rules for claiming seabed resources stem from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, this agreement grants countries sole rights to an area within 230 miles of their coastlines, measured typically from the low-tide mark. There is one exception: if the submerged margin of the continent juts beyond this so-called exclusive economic zone, a country may extend its claim to seabed resources accordingly.

Although some questions will ultimately come down to a judgment call, amicable solutions are not a fantasy. Crews of American, Russian, Canadian and Danish research vessels demonstrate an impressive degree of collaboration and collegiality. Breaking ice for one another, they jointly search for data that often cannot be shared from one ship to the next. “For any national product with high national interest, we must keep things classified,” Christiansen says. “But if we support one another in data collection, we will likely make the same sorts of arguments in submitting our claims.”

It’s not just scientists who have a precedent of cooperation to follow. At the other end of the world, the Antarctic Treaty freezes all territorial claims indefinitely and bans exploitation of the region’s mineral resources until 2048. Of course, the Arctic has been populated and developed for too long for sovereignty to be retracted, but political alliances for the global good are possible. In the meantime, geologists don’t question the economic motivation of their windfall of short-term grants—they just work the field and hope it lasts."

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