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- Images: How to make your car run on tequila (sort of)
- Start-up E-Fuel shows off a home ethanol distiller the company says can fuel your car in your own backyard for as little as $1 per gallon. by CNET News.com
- Tags: News.com, Run, CNET News.com, Food, It', Food & Beverage, Government, Manufacturing
- Image galleries 2008-05-09
- A new robotic tasting device
- According to the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) Weekly PressPac, French researchers have developed an artificial mouth that chews apples like you and me. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note titled 'Munch-o-matic: Scientists develop the artificial mouth.' The...
- Tags: Food, Compound, Hre, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...
- Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...Here's a better ideaBurn the freaking methanol in an internal combustion engine. Catalyst requirement gone.Sheesh.Just another example that global warming really isn't about global warming. Making and burning methanol is carbon-neutral, but note how the idea of simply manufacturing methanol to...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, methanol, global warming, internal combustion engine, combustion engine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Top Food searches
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. food network 0.85% 2. recipes 0.69% 3. pizza hut 0.57% 4. foodnetwork.com 0.39% 5. www.foodnetwork.com 0.22% 6. papa johns 0.22% 7. pepsistuff.com 0.21% 8. foodnetwork 0.20%...
- Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- VC Supports Next, Greener Generation of Biotech
- Using, not losing, all the carbon. Courtesy Zeachem and Mohr Davidow. Click on diagram for full view. We've had several blogs here recently reflecting the building political anxiety around the current generation of biofuels, esp. those based on using food products. You...
- Tags: Food, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Clean Technology, Zeahcem, OPX, Genomatica, Biotechnology, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- A professor deals with political climate around climate change
- I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...
- Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Earth Day - have a gas
- Earth Day - have a gas...You need to watch Farce of the Penguins... much better than the Disney flick... PS no kids allowed! ]:)
- Tags: Earth Day
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Urban Food deserts in major cities
- Canadian researchers at the University of Western Ontario have studied the evolution of food deserts in urban areas. Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighburhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food. As...
- Tags: Supermarket, Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe
- Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globebiofuels is the latest political scamthrowing subsidies in our fuel tank and giving more reasons to countries to exercise population control is the way we will defend our interests overseas. If we play it smart we might be able to get some...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, biofuel
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe
- I blogged recently about criticism of ethanol and other biofuels in some parts of the world. A meeting of over 180 national finance ministers with World Bank officials just gave the whole issue of food or fuel a much higher profile. Political problems caused by hungry...
- Tags: Food, Biofuel, World Bank, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Biofuels, the debate continues
- Biofuels, the debate continuesbio-fuels are the BIGGEST environmental threatThe truth is bio-fuels are the BIGGEST environmental threat of the near future.Why you ask:#1- You are destroying a food source to fuel highly INEFFICIENT vehicles. The best you can get out of bio-fuels is 20 MPGs, and that is if you...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, biofuel, food
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- Biofuels, the debate continues
- Nature.com has an interesting take on American governmental mandate for more biofuels. You'll have to pay to read the whole piece, but all the talkbacks are free and some quite thoughtful. They come from enemies, friends and interested observers of the whole biofuel issue. Corn lovers to...
- Tags: Food, Natural Gas, Nature.com, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Top Food searches
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. food network 0.84% 2. recipes 0.77% 3. pizza hut 0.62% 4. foodnetwork.com 0.38% 5. applebees 0.23% 6. papa johns 0.21% 7. foodnetwork 0.21% 8. olive garden...
- Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, NB
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- An order of fries and a tank of biodiesel to go. You and your car could feed from the same source.
- There're promises that American gasoline prices will be around $4 later this year. Many nations already pay much more than that, but their cars keep on truckin'. So where's the pain point when people will stop driving? Far down the road, I'd predict. People will give...
- Tags: Food, Biodiesel, Golden State Foods, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Super Walrus Chef: War of the Food (zip)
- A sequel/spin-off of Walthrus: ROTC. Walrus Man is hideously poor and owes money to all sorts of vile gangsters. How can our hero find his way back to the top of the world? Cooking, of course, in this game, you will compete against six opponents in a battle of tastes,...
- Tags: Food, Super Walrus Games, Food & Beverage, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Manufacturing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-03-31
- Biofuel's got an outspoken enemy
- Biofuel's got an outspoken enemyIndia is not the only outspoken enemyI have being very vocal against biofuels for years. And I'm not the only person in this planet.The truth is bio-fuels are the BIGGEST environmental threat of the near future.Why you ask:#1- You are destroying a food source to...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Bio-fuel, Biofuel, food, outspoken enemy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Biofuel's got an outspoken enemy
- The Finance Minister of India has attacked biofuel as an outrageous use of food crops. He specifically cited the United States which he claims uses 20% of its corn for fuel, not food. Once American farm surpluses helped feed millions of people outside the country. Now the...
- Tags: Food, India, Green Technology, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Drop that decaf!
- Drop that decaf!I'd like to see a full-scale studyThey should really focus on [b]all[/b] aspects of the person's diet. Maybe the decaf people were making up for it by eating more of something than the caffeinated ones. For instance, the decaf people might munch on candy/chocolate or chips more often.It...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- A change that's headed right for Green Tech Industrial Park
- We live in an era of change, you and I. Some unprecedented. Never before has the world shared a communications technooogy as flexible and open-ended as the Internet. In the days of newsprint or even broadcast, the concept of unlimited space or storage was inconceivable. I...
- Tags: Food, Green Technology, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- 36% of Americans’ income in 2007 went towards Food, energy bills, and medical care
- 36% of Americans’ income in 2007 went towards food, energy bills, and medical careSo pretty much the same as every yearThat is about the same number as this "studies" find year after year.
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Operational accounting, energy bill, food, income
- Discussion threads 2008-03-23
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