Nissan Ships Its Electric Cars on a Solar-Diesel Ship
Named the Nichiomaru, which means “king of Japan,” the ship is the first Japanese vessel to make use of both solar panels and an electrically controlled diesel engine. It’s also got […]
diesel
Disaster Zone Dutro — Hino Motors Sends Hybrids North for Rebuilding
Hino Motors, best known for producing light trucks and cars (called kei trucks and kei cars in Japan), has more or less donated nearly 60 little trucks to the disaster relief efforts. The trucks they sent up there are their fairly new Dutro Hybrid […]
Early Christmas in London: New Fleet of Hybrid Buses Arrives
London got its first shipment of a new fleet of hybrid buses this week, just in time for Christmas. The new bus is supposed to be the most environmentally friendly of its kind, according to Business Green, and is allegedly 15% more fuel efficient than existing hybrid buses. We … [continued]
Clinton Global Initiative Brokers Waste-to-Fuel Partnership
Practical solutions to recently-understood manmade problems like the great Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and others like it around the world) generally seem few and far between, especially given the minimal penetration such problems have made into our collective consciousness. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t people working on them. Fast … [continued]
Solar Powered Cellphone Towers In India To Reduce 5 Million Tons CO2 Emissions, Save $1.4…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Indian government is likely to come out with a mandate that would require telecom operators to transform their cellphone towers from being powered by diesel generators to solar panels. [social_buttons] The ministry had earlier invited proposals for establishing power supply technologies … [continued]
Local Environment to Influence Transportation
Sustainability advocates long ago adopted the mantra “buy local” to limit the carbon footprint of the goods purchased. Distributed energy that’s closer to the end user through smaller solar and wind power, is having an impact on the energy sector. The next industry to become more geography-centric in purchasing will … [continued]
Fungus Discovered That Makes Diesel from Cellulose
The setting for this discovery sounds like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. A fungus that grows in Ulmo trees in the Patagonian Rainforest is the source of a significant discovery. “This is the only organism that has ever been shown to produce such an important combination of fuel … [continued]
Trucks Reduce Emissions by 83%
Truck stop electrification is boosting fuel efficiency and minimizing dependence on foreign oil from idling trucks There are 1.3 million long-haul diesel trucks with sleeper cabs in the United States, with most drivers averaging over 100,000 miles annually. These trucks are highly affected by skyrocketing fuel prices and are dependent … [continued]
