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- Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
- At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the back of a truck and taken wherever the waste oil is being created. They process an end product...
- Videos 2008-12-05
- California will do the diesel dole, breathe easier
- California will do the diesel dole, breathe easierClean Diesel RevolutionDiesel revolution is encouraged in two developments. The first development is the venture to achieve cleaner fuel. The second venture, on the other hand, is to promulgate tougher rules on vehicle emissionsHere is a link that might be useful: http://www.lincenergy.us
- Discussion threads 2008-11-27
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and hybrids
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and hybridsDon't forget the VW 'Clean Diesel' Tech!The '09 Jetta is available with VW's new 'Clean Diesel' TDI engine. I traded in my '04 TDI for an '09 model. What a step up in power and comfort!50 MPG at 55...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- VW model gets "Green Car of the Year" in Los Angeles
- The winning Jetta. Courtesy: CBS Interactive It is a VW diesel that won the award. Specifically: VW Jetta TDI. The LA Award winner was chosen by "Green Car Journal." There was a Ford Fusion in the competition. The little...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
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- Military kicks the tires of green technology
- Military kicks the tires of green technologyMilitary kicks the tires of green technologyIt's greatRE: Military kicks the tires of green technologyWhen was talking to my ford truck parts dealer, he said that this diesel-electric ?Aggressor? Vehicle could be Iraq's first hybrid.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- (Caterpillar D7E hybrid dozer photos)
- (Caterpillar D7E hybrid dozer photos)Good, but is it really a hybrid?I wonder if it's accurate to call it a hybrid since it apparently can't--at any time--run on electric alone. It seems more akin to diesel-electric vehicles like locomotives, that gain efficiency primarily by keeping keeping the diesel engine in...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Fuel Efficiency Adviser
- A typical car's trip computer shows information like average miles per gallon, range to empty, and distance traveled, but if you want to know more about your car's performance--a lot more--then the Fuel Efficiency Adviser deserves a place on your dashboard. Billed as a device to help you drive more...
- Product reviews 2009-06-11
- European publication picks greenest car
- European publication picks greenest carBut it is N/A in North AmericaVolvo and Ford in their infinite wisdom have decided that Americans don't want diesels.So despite my wanting a C30 (after all, it picks up the bloodlines of my P1800ES), it could not be gotten with a diesel in the US.Therefore,...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- European publication picks greenest car
- Surprise! It's a European car brand. What Car? magazine chose the little Volvo diesel S40 as its greenest car of the year. Also getting category awards were Vauxhall's electric Amphera and the American-made Tesla. Not only does the S40 get Prius-type gas efficiency, it has...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- News to know: FTC vs. botnets; Microsoft; Apple WWDC; Twitter
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP. FTC statement Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Typo'd Google domains in Top...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- The non-Ford plan for first plug-in diesel hybrid
- The non-Ford plan for first plug-in diesel hybridIt is about time!With the initial push from the electric motor, a diesel would not have to huff and puff under load to accelerate thus eliminating the condition under which diesels polute the most. If the engine were optimized for it's most...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- The non-Ford plan for first plug-in diesel hybrid
- Volvo is about to esacape the deathn grip of Ford Motor and return to being a Scandanavian auto maker. And they've announced a plan for a 2012 model hybrid diesel plug-in The only other announced hybrid diesel is promised by Peugeot-Citroen and that one is not going to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Hybrids to increase market share, but...
- Hybrids to increase market share, but...Pretty glacial statements . . .Pretty cold language around here. Why the scare quotes around re-tool? Why the talk about hidden agendas again?Do you just hate them because they exist or something? Is there [b]any[/b] way they could earn your trust?Now that they're finally turning...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
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