All Blog Posts Tagged 'fuel' (75)

Wind Energy Might Do

JAIPUR: The state got its first wind mill farms in 1998 and since, there has been no looking back. From a mere 2 MW plant to almost 1,000 MW the end of this year - wind energy capacity of the state has increased manifold, helping the environment by limiting the carbon emissions. Despite the fact most state power generating plants are based on fossil-fuels, Rajasthan has taken a major step to tap no… Continue

Added by BruceD on December 10, 2009 at 9:16pm — No Comments

With Plug-Ins and Hybrids Dominant, Is Diesel Dead in the U.S.?

Popular Mechanics, December 4th, 2009 This year’s LA Auto Show is buzzing with real-life and concept hybrid and all-electric cars. But in the clean diesel corner, the crickets were chirping. Will Americans ever be ready for clean diesels? This post originally appeared on the Popular Mechanics website.

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Added by W. Dan Chance on December 4, 2009 at 7:54pm — 4 Comments

Renewable energies are not just America's dream…

One thing I am certain of is that America, the west and other "civil" people have wonderful ideas that know no border. For this reason I believe with a high degree of certainty that America is behind in innovative thought implementation. Perhaps we will lose the greatest race of the 21st century to be free of the trappings of globally destructive practices. However, there is a glimmer of hope that a moon shot toward sustainable living via wind, solar, tide and yes, coal could save our sovereignt… Continue

Added by Mark Patrick McGrath on November 20, 2009 at 9:23pm — No Comments

Algae Biofuel

What can replace fossil fuels in our motors? Algae Biofuel. I'm going to explain how this proven and renewable energy source, which we can grow in our own country, can solve some of the problems we face with energy, pollution, environment, health and economy. What's keeping us from growing our own fuels? Currently, we don't have the farms constructed to grow the algae and, fossil fuels have been cheap enough to keep us from converting. Now that petroleum fuel has lost some of its affordability,… Continue

Added by Jose Serrano on October 28, 2009 at 12:47am — 2 Comments

WIH Resource Group Forms New Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV) Group on Linked In

Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV) was created in response to what we see as the extremely negative consequences of our country’s ever-increasing dependence on foreign oil, and we believed strongly that the air quality benefits of alternative fuels would help improve not only the environment, but people’s health. AFV is founded and co-sponsored by WIH Resource Group (http://www.wihrg.com) and Waste Savings, Inc. (http://www.wastesavings.net), both companies are based in Phoenix Arizona. Their resp… Continue

Added by Bob Wallace on October 20, 2009 at 6:23am — No Comments

Ford Standing Proud As US Hybrid Sales Come on Strong

Nick Chambers, Editor, October 16th, 2009 The American hybrid landscape is shifting under our feet. With the perceptible movement of a slow landslide, Ford hybrid sales have been dramatically increasing over the last year—sales in September were up 73% from last September. According to Automotive News (subs. req’d), this brings Ford within a few thousand units of overtaking Honda to become the second largest seller of hybrids in America.

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Added by W. Dan Chance on October 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

Wind, Solar and Generator Backup Power System

Wind, Solar and Generator Backup Power System WHOLE-HOUSE ENERGY CHECKLIST: 50 Steps to Energy Efficiency i… Continue

Added by James Everitt on August 18, 2009 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

What can LPG or CNG do for your Diesel Fueled Vehicle?

Dear Fellow Soldiers, Midwest Energy Solutions finally has a mixing system that can be added to a diesel vehicle, that injects propane or natural gas in small amounts that increases engine performance and the time between service intervals because it decreases engine oil dilution and contamination, it reduces diesel fuel costs because it increases the fuel mileage, it increases horsepower and torque, decreases harmful combustion temperatures and smoke which increases engine life, it decreases h… Continue

Added by Michael Batten on August 13, 2009 at 5:57am — No Comments

Natural Gas Fuel; A Bridge To....What?

Last year T. Boone Pickens brought the concept of natural gas as a vehicle fuel into the national stream of consciousness when he launched his “Pickens Plan”. Since then the concept has evolved to the point where there are several pieces of legislation making their way through Congress (Natural Gas Act of 2009)and the Senate which will encourage the more widespread implementation of this “green” fossil fuel. Recent estimates of the natural gas reserves in the United States indicate that we have… Continue

Added by Mike Johnston on August 3, 2009 at 8:24am — 7 Comments

Will Toyota Corner The Hydrogen Vehicle Market In 2015?

Recently Toyota announced that they would be introducing a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in 2015 which would "shock" the US auto market. Assuming that to be true one has to wonder more about how they are going to do it than if they are going to do it. Toyota isn't stupid and to evolve transportation in a new direction would be a marketing coup even bigger than what they achieved with the extremely popular Prius hybrid. The development of a cheap fuel cell vehicle that is priced competitively with… Continue

Added by Mike Johnston on July 27, 2009 at 6:55am — 1 Comment

Good Science / Difficult Marketing...Hydrogen from Urine?

Producing hydrogen from urine You do two things at highway filling stations: fill up one tank and empty another. Ohio University chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine. Chemistry World reports that the catalyst could not only fuel the hydrogen-powered cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater. Gerardine Botte of Ohio University uses an electrolytic approach t… Continue

Added by Robert Schultz on July 23, 2009 at 8:36am — 5 Comments

Much Ado About Hydrogen

Here's a great slideshow presentation on Hydrogen:

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

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Added by Renew_H2_Man on June 5, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Wind at work

Coming into Lubbock, Texas this afternoon the first thing I could see on the horizon was a large wind generator. Not one of the small ones, no one of the large commercial type units. The interesting thing about it was it was in town, so I had to see where it was located. On the east side of Lubbock where they have a windmill museum with just about every type of windmill you could think of. For the first types used to pump water all the way to the large wind generator. Why am I telling everyone a… Continue

Added by Mark Swafford on March 23, 2009 at 8:25pm — No Comments

Understand Fuel Reformers And How They Could Change The World

I was pleasantly surprised last week to see Exxon running a TV commercial on the fuel reformer that they have been working on since at least 2007. If you haven't seen the commercial yet you can take a moment and go to the Exxon site and view it at this link. I am writing this story because I really think that everyone… Continue

Added by Mike Johnston on March 14, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

So, Where are all those Fuel Cell Buses Anyway?

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Added by Renew_H2_Man on March 2, 2009 at 11:20am — No Comments

Big Question??

I have a question about why we can't get something to reduce the consumption of fuel in the cars we are presently driving? All the talk about reduction of dependency of foreign oil is all future reference. I have heard several incidents over the years of inventions that reduces the consumption of fuel in vehicels. But the big oil, and/or auto-makers bought up the patents and shelved them. If there is something that can be done now, why can't we get access to it, and start this process now?????? Continue

Added by Randall W Chapman on February 28, 2009 at 10:10am — No Comments

Fuel-an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions

FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry—from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America" —from… Continue

Added by Renew_H2_Man on February 28, 2009 at 4:11am — No Comments

Who thinks this is false? Who will take care of those who do the dirty work?

by CHARLES BEXLet them fail. They have used barbaric tactics to long against our will. They have abused our rights as free comsumers. They have taken advantage of all who have paid into this horrific sham. Even the technicians who work on these Vvehicles have been bleed. There are a few and proud, who will replace the drainage and make you and I prouder than ever to invest in something full of integrity and honesty. Excuse this update, I ran out of time. The automakers have lost face with its em… Continue

Added by CHARLES BEX on February 24, 2009 at 8:24am — No Comments

The Truth About Vapor Fuel

Like many others, we have heard stories of vapor systems that achieved incredible mileage. We have spent the last seven years, and a great deal of our client’s money, to determine what actual benefit, if any, there is to fuel vapor technology. Lean Burn We found that fully vaporizing fuel prior to entering the combustion chamber is beneficial in several… Continue

Added by Ray Bushnell on February 12, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Where Have All The Subsidies Gone?

I saw a legislator on CNN yesterday talking about how renewable energy gets a huge amount of money in government subsidies and how that ought to be taken away. That made me wonder just how much fossil and nuclear fuels recieve in subsidies and how much Exxon raked in while we were all paying 4$ a gallon for gasoline during their 14 billion dollar profit quarter last year. I found a page from the Energy Information Agency… Continue

Added by Mike Johnston on February 6, 2009 at 7:36am — 1 Comment