We may be about to see a radically new technology in thermal energy storage. Researchers at MIT have been been working on ways to store the sun’s energy in chemical bonds. These developments in this “heat battery” or a “solar fuel,” are due to the addition of carbon nano technology.
New technical specifications for Formula 1 racing require vehicles in the pit to operate in electric only mode. Drayson Racing Technologies and HaloIPT are working together to offer completely electric vehicles through electrified racetrack roadways.
The Department of Defense has made headlines for using biofuels to power its’ planes and ships, but clean energy innovations may have a bigger impact by reducing the carbon bootprint of military while saving lives on the battlefield. New technologies are reducing the weight of equipment soldiers carry into battle, powering military bases, and creating a fleet of electric vehicles.
Driving an electric vehicle can be a little stressful if you have to worry about your car’s charge running out in the middle of nowhere. Enter Mitsubishi, who has recently announced the debut of a solar-powered charging station at their headquarters in Cypress, California.
The first ever joint Army-Air Force Energy Forum took place this week, and the participants have a message for outdated conventional fuels: don’t let the door hit you on your way out. At the capacity-booked event, senior leadership, including four- and three-star generals, outlined “the strategic importance and future direction of Army and Air Force energy” in terms of innovation, technology, conservation and sustainability.
GM is in the business of selling vehicles. They also usually make them. Anticipating objections was the object of GM’s recent announcement of a “definitive agreement” with ABB, a back up power and energy storage company. For most an “Electric vehicle” means a battery car. Some question if electric vehicles are truly “clean.” GM wants us to imagine with confidence where batteries go when they “naturally die.”
Project Better Place is about developing an electric vehicle battery swapping system that can enable people to literally replace their battery packs in exchange for another one which was charged while it was at the Better Place swapping station.
For those who want to remain abreast of this clean fuel option, the Collective Biofuels Conference (CBC) is scheduled August 5 – 7 at Vancouver Island, Canada.
Clean transportation news from around from the past week or so, divided up by category….
It lives on damaged, infertile, and eroded soils, improves the ecosystem of forest floors, removes CO2 from the atmosphere and produces a sugary sweet juice at an amazing rate. The Arenga Sugar Palm is arguably Indonesia’s best kept secret.
