A new facility in the UK, Adnams Bio Energy anaerobic digestion plan, using brewery waste and local food waste will begin producing renewable gas which can be used as liquid fuel among other things. Working in partnership with National Grid, the facility expects to generate up to 4.8 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year – [...]
December 8, 2009 – 12:38 am
While all of the world leaders will be gathering in Copenhagen this week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to come up with new and creative ways to reduce climate-altering emissions and make plans for a low-carbon energy future; a simple solution is right in front of our noses: natural gas. Gasoline prices this [...]
November 9, 2009 – 3:43 pm
I need not strain myself by explaining that people and governments are both stubborn when it comes to going green. Global warming is nearly an impossible sell and as for energy, well, “if it ain’t cheap, it won’t compete.” Governments, worldwide apparently do not have the cajones to legislate a significant cut in oil consumption. [...]
October 27, 2009 – 12:39 pm
The race is on to find a way to mass produce affordable fuel from pond algae. Sound strange? Here’s the scoop: Factors such as fluctuating oil prices and the hopes of easing climate change have caused the hunt for creative knew energy sources. The icky pond scum known as algae grows remarkably fast and is [...]
October 16, 2009 – 5:41 pm
The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid. It is touted as the most advanced minivan ever created. You can put either gasoline it, or hydrogen, doesn’t matter which. (Different tanks. Can’t mix gasoline and hydrogen in the same tank. Bad news.) It runs on both. If you fill it with hydrogen, it becomes a zero-emissions vehicle, [...]
Looks like the world is waking up from it’s gasoline gorging party. Slowly, but surely. The latest step happened just today, with Nissan’s unveiling of its 2010 Leaf. (Get the title now?) It’s a cute little hatchback, but it’s not a clown car, as it comfortably seats 4 to 5 people (depending on tush size, [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama may still be trying to sort out the American economy, but he hasn’t gone back on his promise to use his executive powers and influence to develop renewable energy programs as well as those more friendly to the environment. In a speech he gave on March 19th, the President said: “So [...]
January 8, 2009 – 7:46 am
(Washington, D.C. – January 7, 2009) Citizens for Energy Freedom, the grassroots movement of the Set America Free Coalition, will be holding its Energy Independence in 2009 conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Jupiter, Florida, on January 17-18, 2009. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, [...]
