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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Susan Kraemer, Gas2.org, November 29th, 2009
Posting note: The first few paragraphs may have more politics than useful information. Endure and read further. I can only hope that we haven't traded valuable assets for empty promises but it sounds like we might be getting some good technology.
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Nick Chambers, Editor, Gas2.org, November 23rd, 2009
The all-electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV isn’t set to hit U.S. shores for another 18 months, but already the company is considering selling a gas version of the car alongside its battery-powered sibling in the U.S. to compete in the same segment as the Smart Car.
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Silvia Christel, Daniel Englande, Greentech Media, November 16, 2009
2010 Technology and Market Analysis- Executive Summary
Overview
Concentrating Photovoltaics (CPV) continues to generate interest and investment worldwide as a unique solution for large-scale commercial and utility-scale solar power generation. This report, building on research conducted in 2008 by the Prometheus Institute and GTM Research, takes a freshly detailed look at the specific technologies, applications, polic…
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Jeff St John, GreentechMedia, November 19, 2009
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers sees the utility owning and controlling solar panels and energy management systems in customers’ homes. Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, wants to own every piece of the smart grid, all the way down to the energy portals in customers' homes and the solar panels on their roofs.
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Susan Kraemer, Gas2.org, November 18th, 2009
A new analysis from Accenture, Betting on Science; Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels, identifies 12 technologies that have the potential to be gamechangers, disrupting fossil fuel demand and reversing course on the disastrous climate changing trajectory that we are on. And, the report says, they could do it within five years.
But rather than simply cheering on these exciting developments, Accenture goes a step further and does a complete an…
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Stylish doors. .. yeah!
Looks great doesn't it?
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Nick Chambers, Editor, Gas2.org, November 18th, 2009
Norwegian electric car maker, Th!nk, has seen some rough financial patches as of late—having gone through a bankruptcy and restructuring—but they seem to be clawing their way back to relevance these days. With a long wait list and more demand for the Th!nk City than they can meet in Europe, think has once again turned their eyes on the U.S. market.
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Richard Black, Environment Correspondent, BBC News website
Fossil fuel emissions are rising with GDP, particularly in developing countries
Average temperatures across the world are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, according a new analysis.
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From Wired How-To Wiki
Arthur Benjamin is a wizard at math. Literally. At Hollywood's Magic Castle, the world-famous conjurer's club, he wows the crowd by multiplying big numbers — quick, what's 57,682 squared? — faster than you can use a calculator. Here he shares three cool tricks. (The answer, by the way: 3,327,213,124. See how easy it is?)
Square off
To square a number like 14, identify the closest round number — in this case, 10. Since you subtracted 4 to get 10, add 4 to 14 to ge…
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The Associated Press (as featured on NPR website), November 16, 2009
A group of businessmen on Monday launched a new coalition to urge the federal government to make a major investment in electric transportation, pointing to electric cars as the best way to confront the nation's dependence on imported oil.
Top executives with more than a dozen companies, including Nissan Motor Co., Fedex Corp., electric utility PG&E Corp. and battery developers A123 Systems Inc. and Johnson Controls-Saft,…
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Nick Chambers, Editor, Gas2.org, November 13th, 2009
In Los Angeles this morning, at the United States unveiling of the Nissan LEAF electric car—set to hit showrooms in late 2010—Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was enthusiastic and clearly proud of the position the Nissan-Renault Alliance has taken as a leader in the development of electric cars and charging infrastructure.
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Nick Chambers, Editor, November 13th, 2009, Gas2.org
According to two unnamed sources
as reported in the Guardian—one current International Energy Agency (IEA) employee and one former—the IEA has been purposely painting an overly rosy picture of the remaining available world oil supplies to…
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Solar Feeds, Nov 06, 2009
The current technology might have enabled us to install a solar plant right on our rooftops, but all that energy is of no use if there isn’t enough storage medium available. Currently most PV plants use batteries as a storage medium, which not only is an expensive way but the low-energy density of batteries makes them impractical for normal use.
Eco Factor: Storing solar energy in the form of hydrogen for fuel cells.
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GreentechMedia Weekly Newsletter, Thursday, November 12, 2009
Global demand for solar cells and panels is likely to drop 17 percent in 2009, says Navigant Consulting. Market recovery won’t come quickly.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Worldwide demand for solar energy equipment is set to drop about 17 percent in 2009, the first time the market has ever experienced a drop in demand, an analyst said Thursday.
Solar cell and panel makers are likely to sell about 4.6 gigawatts this year, compared with about 5.5…
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Andrew Williams, November 12th, 2009, Gas2.org
Back in September we reported that French Car-maker PSA had teamed up with Mitsubishi to make an electric vehicle based on the zippy i-MiEV. Well, this week it seems that the partnership has come to fruition, after Citroen…
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Alternative Energy eNewsletter, November 13, 2009
Three universities of the USA have conducted studies related to renewable sources of energy and it has produced some interesting facts. The first and most important one is that renewable energy policies will lead to employment opportunities. Secondly, it will increase the consumer’s income and thirdly, it will have positive effect on the US economy too. The study Clean Energy & Climate Policy for U.S. Growth and Job Creation: An Economic Ass…
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Alternative Energy eNewsletter, November 11th, 2009
Solar Energy Device Researchers and scientists are putting on endless effort to make the sources of energy clean and green. There are many devices in the market that run on solar energy. The alternative energy atmosphere is charged with anticipation and excitement. But till now one of the biggest dampeners in green energy scenario is the prices. Fossil fuels are available cheaply all over the world. But solar, wind, geothermal or biofuels are…
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Darryl Siry, Autopia, November 11, 2009
With all the excitement about electric vehicles these days, the natural gas Honda Civic GX just doesn’t get any respect. Perhaps that’s because it still burns fossil fuel in an internal combustion engine, which may seem to some like incremental innovation. But a closer look at the car, which debuted in 1998 and has sold several thousand since then, reveals an interesting story about the cleanest internal combustion vehicle in the United States.…
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Andrew Williams, Gas2.org, November 3rd, 2009
Canadian province Ontario is to introduce green-coloured licence plates, available only to drivers of plug-in hybrids and battery-powered electric vehicles.
Sounds like another gimmick? Well, here’s the deal - vehicles sporting the new green plates will be able to drive in the province’s dedicated carpool lanes until 2015, even if only one person is in the vehicle.
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