Former Congressman Bob Inglis’ new energy economy plan includes adding the cost of Middle East wars, pollution, and climate change to the cost of fossil fuels and eliminating clean energy technology subsidies. […]
Biofuel fans have been following the bio-powered ships and aircraft of the Navy’s Green Strike Group as it tools around the Pacific in this year’s Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise, but advanced biofuel isn’t the only green innovation on display. The Navy is also using the Green Strike Group to show off … [continued]
According to the Forze blog, the team recently competed “…the first entry ever of a hydrogen fuel cell racing car in the Formula Student competition.” The race, part of the Silverstone circuit, featured the team’s hydrogen vehicle vying against approximately 100 petrol-powered cars. […]
For all you urban energy harvesters out there, here’s a little something to go with your micro wind turbine and your rooftop solar thermal-electric array: a small-scale, energy-efficient system for harvesting algae in preparation for producing algae biofuel. Called the Model 4 Algae Appliance™ harvester, it was developed by … [continued]
General Electric (GE) Industrial Solutions and PayPal are teaming up to create a user-friendly payment system that charges users’ electric vehicles (EV) at any of GE’s Wattstations. The deal between PayPal and GE Industrial solutions will allow drivers a secure and easy way to pay for charging their EVs at GE’s … [continued]
Hotels are notoriously wasteful energy consumers, guzzling resources in an effort to keep guests happy. Scandic Hotels have taken a different route in the lodging business: informing customers of how they can be a part of an environmentally friendly lodging system. In the video above, Jan Peter Bergkvist, developer of … [continued]
The U.S. Navy appears to be steamrolling easily over a Republican-led effort to quash its biofuel initiatives. Early last week, the Obama administration announced a Navy-supported $62 million biofuel research program, and it followed up a few days later with another $420 million effort by the Department of Defense to … [continued]
Food waste offers a tantalizing source of renewable biofuel, and orange peels are a perfect example of the potential. According to the American Chemical Society, we are sitting on a veritable gold mine of citrus waste. Global agriculture produces about 15.6 million tons of orange and other citrus waste annually … [continued]
Genomic researchers say the same fungus that ended coal formation millennia ago may now be able to boost biofuel and bioenergy production. […]
The U.S. Navy’s Green Strike Group has just sailed out to show off America’s biofuel-enabled power to the world this summer at the RIMPAC maritime exercise, so the timing is perfect for yet another biofuel announcement. This one involves the Navy, the Department of Energy and the Department of … [continued]
