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- 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
- Spark of an idea for future cars
- The internal combustion engine is older than, well, older than Ford Motor Company. But now some research sponsored by Ford and BP may be about to alter the standard car engine. The research is being done at MIT. The research shows that cars can sometimes operate in...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Making ethanol out of biodiesel byproducts
- Making ethanol out of biodiesel byproductsEnough with combustion cycles to produce power...it's time to start advancing the alternatives. Fact is electric is viable right now, but the damn things are priced (thanks to corporate, read oil companies smear campaign and making it damn near impossible to pursue) out of the...
- Tags: biodiesel, combustion engine
- Discussion threads 2007-06-26
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- Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient
- RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Liquids from methane could be better than mere gas(oline)
- methanol from methane?Technical nonsense. Methanol is a partially burned methane, using a catalyst doesn't change that.This is only feasable if the energy liberated by the partial burning of methane to methanol is captured and used.Fuel mileage of methanol is much lower than gasoline.Straight methane as an internal combustion engine...
- Tags: methane, methanol
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000
- GM Spark, photo courtesy of GM. But, of course, this car will not be sold in the U.S. or Canada. The all-electric Spark will go on sale next year in India. There GM partners with Reva Electric Car Co. The standard combustion engine Spark, sells...
- Tags: India, Car, Electric Car, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- (Ultimates: Exotic cars at the Frankfurt auto show)
- OK!I want one! Which one? Guess I better test drive them all, just to be sure I choose well...RE: (Ultimates: Exotic cars at the Frankfurt auto show)Disappointed... In this worlwide Economic Disaster, the auto industry belched out products for the 1% of the world population, the money olygarch... It...
- Tags: Exotic Car, Exotic, car
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?
- It would HAVE to hit $20 a gallonbefore the current price of the Volt makes economic sense. But if they can shave that price down by $12k or so then it would make sense now. I'm personally routing for the latter to happen instead.At $20 a gallon the economy would...
- Tags: gallon, car, General Motors Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?
- GM's now saying the fuel efficiency for their plug-in volt will be the equivalent of 230 MPG in city driving. If the EPA concurs that would make the 2010 Volt the first mass-produced car to top the triple-digit MPG barrier. Volt. This preliminary 230...
- Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Dead Finger Tech: Ducati Monster
- Our editor recently asked ZDNet bloggers to write about the one computing device, peripheral, gadget, or software that we love or are so addicted to that it couldn't be taken away from us unless pried from our dead fingers (Dead-Finger Tech, or DFT). [caption id="attachment_1666" align="alignleft" width="150"...
- Tags: Monster, Motorcycle, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-07-26
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?Tragic endIf GM had been allowed to conduct its affairs based on its own marketing expertise, I would have assumed it would do just fine, once the onerous union agreements were modified.Now, it appears to be doomed. The corporate management puppets are echoing...
- Tags: Government, Engineering, NOW IT, Volt, General Motors Corp., battery
- Discussion threads 2009-07-10
- 2009 Lexus GS 450h
- Photo gallery:2009 Lexus GS 450h Our perfect power train combines high performance with excellent fuel economy, an ideal that the 2009 Lexus GS 450h comes the closest of any car we've seen to delivering. Lexus claims 5.2 seconds to 60 mph, yet this big, comfortable sedan consistently registers fuel economy...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Lexus, Lexus GS
- Product reviews 2009-06-30
- Electric cars in America--the price point
- Electric cars in America--the price pointElectric cars in America--the price pointMy concern in addition to the price of the electric car is where do I plug it in to charge it? If its my house then how much is my electric bill going to be raised while its charging?...
- Tags: C02, disposal, power generation station, electric car, car, price point
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- (Photos: Firing up the British Steam Car)
- (Photos: Firing up the British Steam Car)AmazingThe Stanley Steamer did over 125 mph in 1906 using the technology of the time and here we are over 100 years later and they are still trying to beat that record - and they did it with one boiler in what passed...
- Tags: British Steam Car, Mph, firing, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Prius panic and other money matters
- Prius panic and other money mattersWrong Poll ChoicesRailroad has a strong future - for carrying heavy cargo and containers. Use of trucks is far less fuel efficient, though faster.I don't think rail has much future as a transport of people - the U.S. is too large. High speed rail is...
- Tags: money matter, Toyota Prius
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- Energy from the wind is the best for Earth
- Energy from the wind is the best for EarthI want to know why NOT ONE US reporter has mentioned AIR powered cars.Plug a compressor to it, fill it up and bam, full tank for 300 miles. Use a built in gasoline compreossor and get 300 miles per gallon.Nuclear power...
- Tags: Engineering, Wind turbine, NOW IT, compressor, battery, green technology, car
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs
- Well-known greentech VC Vinod Khosla has an opinion piece in a national news mag today...and it calls for letting Detroit's auto dinosaurs wander around among the financial ferns until they die, or evolve into more agile creatures. Khosla's argument is cogent and backed by much of recent...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., VC Vinod Khosla, Chevy Volt, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- (Mini E, electric vehicle)
- (Mini E, electric vehicle)How about a true testThis proves what can be done. I just have a bug with the test program. It's asking you to pay $850 a month to be a beta tester for one year. At that price only celebrities or someone pretty well...
- Tags: MINI-E, electric vehicle, car, electric car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?
- Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?SimpleStop eating meat and then all that money, time resources and effort that's spent in producing meat for the meat addicts can be put to better use.Less bowel cancer, heart and circulatory disease and hopefully a better attitude towards...
- Tags: cow, meat
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- 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
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