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- The many faces of algae
- From biofuel to cooking oil and skin care products, algae is becoming the new go-to ingredient for a myriad of products. On a visit to Solazyme, a South San Francisco-based biotech company, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi rides in a 100 percent algae-fueled car and samples surprisingly tasty algae cooking oil...
- Tags: Biotechnology, News, kara tsuboi, solazyme, alge, bio fuels, gasoline, diesel, laboratory
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Car Wars in Detroit
- Car Wars in DetroitDiesel Doings at the NAIAS: It's Easy Being GreenIn Detroit, January usually means gray skies. But this January the predominant color is green, since the 2008 North American International Auto Show was seeking to answer the big question “Which shades of green auto technology are going to...
- Tags: Performance management, Diesel, Other Technologies
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Diesel wants to be your friend
- Diesel wants to be your friendJust The Facts not Freedom Fries in Vegetable OIL original diesel fuelRudolf Diesel was born in Paris in 1858. His parents were Bavarian immigrants. Rudolf Diesel was educated at Munich Polytechnic. After graduation he was employed as a refrigerator engineer. However, his true love lay...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Rudolf Diesel, Diesel
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Diesel wants to be your friend
- Okay, folks, if you drive a car, ride in a bus, consume anything ever carried in a truck or ship, or simply are interested in questions about energy supply and greenhouse gases...pay attention. I have an acronym for you to memorize: ULSD. That's...
- Tags: Car, Diesel Technology Forum, France, Diesel, Allen Schaeffer, Forum, Rapeseed, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Sun's data center in a box
- Sun's data center in a boxIf it ran on Gas or Diesel and had a 30 mbps wireless backhaulIf it ran on Gas or Diesel with its own built in generator and had a 30 mbps wireless point-to-point backhaul, then we'd be cooking with a truly mobile solution.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Diesel, data center, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-18
- In L.A., the hybrid is, like, so last year
- In L.A., the hybrid is, like, so last yearNot reallyThe powers that be understand chemistry and physics, which greens and their dupes don't.Biodiesel takes more energy to manufacture than you get by burning it. It's cute now because only a few are using it. Start producing it on a mass...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, biodiesel, oxide, greenhouse gase, Diesel
- Discussion threads 2006-01-06
- Powering a new generation of cars
- Powering a new generation of carsCheap Energy will not happenCall me sinical, but I don't buy into the overly romanticized notion that highly efficient cars, renewable fuels or even cold fusion itself will cause energy prices to fall (overly the long term, anyway). Regardless of how cheap it becomes for...
- Tags: Diesel, Ethanol, alcohol
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
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- 2009 Lincoln MKS
- 2009 Lincoln MKSLincoln takes a major step into the 21st century with the 2009 Lincoln MKS, blowing past the competition's cabin tech and leaving memories of the Town Car far behind. This new, large sedan features a unique grille, a high belt-line, and prominent Lincoln badges on the front and...
- Tags: MKS Inc., Lincoln, car
- Product reviews 2008-09-24
- Cheap oil signal end of greentech bubble?
- Oil futures are dropping to depths not seen for months. Even Hurricane Ike was not able to hike up the oil futures. That devastating hurricane was trumped by the downward spin of the world's stock markets and a slew of other unencouraging economic stats. So...
- Tags: Private Equity, Stock, Stock Market, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentumNovell is on life support[i]He added that Microsoft is buying up to $100 million in SUSE certificates in $25 million chunks.[/i]Novell will be arround as long as M$ provides the cash.The best bet is on companies that stand on their own feet and built everything from...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gasJust drive a low emission car insteadInstead of trying to join the queue for a Hybrid, just choose a low emission car from the normal range.A Honda Fit or other small rentals will give up to 50mpg, and have A/C which...
- Tags: car
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Not so idle: HP earns green transport logo for business products
- It takes more than better attention to energy-efficiency or attention to materials to classify some gadget or another as green tech. That's why Hewlett-Packard has made a concerted effort to have its products vetted as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay logo program, which focuses on the fuel consumption...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Emission, Product, Document Management, Supply Chain, Transportation, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Social media and 'green': two fashion trends to avoid
- I love the ideas behind social media and the move towards all things green but if you want evidence our industry is fashion driven then look no further than John Furrier's 'so what?' thumbs down to Delicious2. Even so, sooner or later, technology has to deliver and it is a...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Social Media, General Motors Corp., Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Kelley names 2008's greenest cars. Or, another reason to buy a way-cute Mini Cooper.
- Kelley names 2008's greenest cars. Or, another reason to buy a way-cute Mini Cooper.2008's Greenest CarsWell this in an interesting subject to me. I for one am proud of Ford for finally manning up to the needs of the American Consumer, releasing the first ever Ford Escape SUV to hit...
- Tags: car, SUV
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Kelley names 2008's greenest cars. Or, another reason to buy a way-cute Mini Cooper.
- Having owned exactly two cars in my life, I have consulted the Kelley Blue Book Web site exactly once: To take a guess at how much my Volkswagen Jetta could fetch when it was totalled last year. (Note, I wasn't driving it when said total happened. Ironically someone totalled their...
- Tags: Car, Alternative Fuel, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Gasoline Quiz: the answer
- One great thing about blogging for ZDnet, the readers here are smart. The most popular answer to my quiz was the correct one. The picture of cheap gasoline above was taken at a typical suburban gas station near Quito, Ecuador. I was there...
- Tags: Green Technology, Gasoline, Ecuador, Planes, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?
- That's it. This is not misleading. Those prices are in U.S. dollars, and they are for a standard gallon for gasoline or diesel fuel. [poll=21] The answer tomorrow. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Gasoline, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- The edge-centric Internet
- Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the Internet. And get paid for it. P2P vs Internet data centers A new project, spearheaded by National ICT...
- Tags: Consumer, Internet Data Center, Data Center, Internet, Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea
- Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...
- Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump
- Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited HCCI engines. An HCCI engine 'combines the efficiency and versatility of diesel engines with the cleanliness of spark-ignition engines.' For...
- Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Engine, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
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