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- An order of fries and a tank of biodiesel to go. You and your car could feed from the same source.
- An order of fries and a tank of biodiesel to go. You and your car could feed from the same source.biofuels are follyTheres three big things wrong with biofuels.1. Around the world in places like Malaysia, there has been a marked increase in removal of rainforest in order to...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, biodiesel, biofuel
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- 25 environmental threats in our futureBio-fuels: The biggest environmental threatSorry for the "tree hugging" people who think that bio-fuels are a solution to the energy crisis. But the truth is bio-fuels are the BIGGEST environmental tread for the future.Why you ask:#1- You are destroying a food source to...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Bio-fuel, Biofuels, food, crop, environmental threat
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death
- Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of deathBiofuels are a huge con jobThere is no way that it is energy efficient for the US to move to biofuels. It may work in Brazil where they burned down their rainforests to produce nice fertile land to grow sugar cane. But, in...
- Tags: Biofuels, Biofuel
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- BioFuels: now what?
- BioFuels: now what?Sorry but this is still not the full answer.I can see the use of bio-fuels for heavy construction equipment and military hardware, but for daily drivers and power plants? No, it's not a solution and still puts excessive amounts of CO2 and other harmful pollutants into the air.Burning...
- Tags: Biofuels
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
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- Cleantech draws more investments in Q3
- Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Most Americans support energy infrastructure overhaul
- Energy overhaul is not the issueThe issue is ENERGY EFFICIENCY.Products from 30 years ago specially cars were more energy efficient than todays.What is the point of changing technologies, if that technology is less efficient that what we have today.One example: Biofuels. Not only are we destroying organic material to burn...
- Tags: smart grid, energy usage, grid
- Discussion threads 2009-08-16
- New and better solar cells
- New and better solar cellsIf enough new and better monkeys flew out of my buttthey could make wind power work, provided they didn't need to eat, breath, and crap.If if if if if if.How about a solar tech that doesn't require the mining and use or production of heavy metals...
- Tags: solar cell, environment
- Discussion threads 2009-07-25
- Researcher: Pee power in our energy future
- Don't waste that bodily waste, convert it. That's the system suggested by Ohio University researchers. They are converting urine into hydrogen for fuel cell fuel. Are we really flushing away a great source of energy? The team of engineers are using a nickel-based converter that...
- Tags: Researcher, Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.
- How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.as long...........as they dont touch my beer ,wine , pastis,whisky,they can do all they want with fuel .....if a see one fed near a keg its gonna end up bad RE: How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.This...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, alcohol, Ethanol
- Discussion threads 2009-07-18
- $20/gallon gasoline: heaven or hell?
- Gasoline prices rank with beer prices and taxes as economic issues nearly every American reacts to. Now one writer has engineered a book designed to play to everybody's gasoline paranoia. Nobody we know controls the price of gasoline, but we are sure somebody can or does or should....
- Tags: China, NPR, Gasoline, Christopher Steiner, Globalization, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Biofuel fraud exposes some big names
- Biofuel fraud exposes some big namesGiven that bio-fuels are a scam by themselvesBiofuels are nothing but a sweet scam. Not only do you get a final product that gives you less than half of the millage of regular fuels, but they also cut the lifespan of the engine (even...
- Tags: biofuel, Biofuel fraud
- Discussion threads 2009-07-05
- Oil shortages are over, we're gonna squeeze it from diatoms
- Oil shortages are over, we're gonna squeeze it from diatomsI won't gripe about the lawyer crack.You can even throw in used car salesmen an politicians.Interesting thing about diatoms. They live in water. The article you linked to neglected to mention whether or not the diatoms in question live in ocean...
- Tags: carbon, carbon dioxide, pollution
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- EPA to become the most controversial agency in nation?
- EPA to become the most controversial agency in nation?EPANow the Obama admin wants the EPA to monitor and tax cattle and pigs since they produce Methane, allowing the EPA to put controls on without legislation. Up go prices for meat already being pushed by suspect proposals for biofuels!Ethanol Biofuel:...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, biofuel, agency
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- EPA to become the most controversial agency in nation?
- The Environmental Protection Agency drew plenty of harsh criticism and lawsuits during the Bush Administration. Well, policies and names are largely changed. But the EPA as bull's eye is NOT changing. Farm groups say more ethanol biofuel will raise prices of everything you love: from beef to...
- Tags: Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?It is too early to say, there are a lot of issues to solveA hydrogen economy is still just a dream on a sheet of paper. Making this a reality is probably 10 to 20 years away, given that we don't find a better...
- Tags: Hydrogen car, Obama, hydrogen economy, Hydrogen Production, Diesel Engine, hydrogen, hydrogen car, car
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?
- Has the dream of hydrogen-powered cars gone up in a puff of vapor? Has it evaporated? Was it all hot air? It was back in 2003 that the American President asked for over a billion dollars to make our auto fleet more hydrogen-powerful. Some hydro-advocates still...
- Tags: Car, Hydrogen, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energy
- To change,or simnply more of the same without all that pesky government intervention. To have, or to have not. That seems to be the question. There's now a draft of new federal requirement for alternative energy. And there is a proposed push toward biofuels....
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Biofuel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Ethanol, our trash and our economy
- This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....
- Tags: Southern California, Biofuel, Trash, Landfill, Plant, Blue Fire, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Greentech investments continue, but declining
- A survey found considerable greentech investments around the world for Q1, 2009--the same Q1 that had stock markets dyspepsic, investors shy, and governments throwing money at every shadow that moved. The Cleantech GroupT, along with Deloitte, have just released preliminary 1Q09 results for clean technology venture...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Obama rolls out help for green tech
- President Barack Obama put $1.2 billion where his mouth has been on green technology. At a Monday morning event at the White House Obama announced the availability of $1.2 billion in basic research dollars at Energy Department labs, News.com's Martin LaMonica reported. That money will fund research...
- Tags: Green Technology, Barack Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Research & Development, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
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