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- E-motorcycle hits S.F. streets
- CNET News reporter Mats Lewan takes the brand new Zero S electric motorcycle for a test drive in downtown San Francisco. Currently, electric scooter-style and offroad bikes can be used on the streets. But the Zero S can reach up to 60 mph, and its creator, Zero Motorcycles, says it's...
- Tags: San Francisco, High-performance, Leadership, Management, News, electric, motorcycle, green, auto, motor, batteries, gas, mileage
- Videos 2009-05-07
- Bad Gas? Pioneer officially ditches TVs, Vizio abandons plasmas
- Bad Gas? Pioneer officially ditches TVs, Vizio abandons plasmasI am ONLY considering plasmaAfter reading way too many reviews, I think that today Plasma is the only way to go.It provides a much better picture.I know it has a higher energy consumption, but I don't care as I only watch 1.5...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TV, plasma
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation?
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Tags: Biofuel, Government, Green Enterprise, Bill Joy, Churchill Club, alternative fuel, gas, oil, innovation
- Videos 2009-02-12
- 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...
- Tags: Free Trade, Finance, biofuel, green, oil, vegetable, waste, diesel, gas, reactors, carbon, technology
- Videos 2008-12-05
- 80% of Americans would switch to hybrid cars if they could afford them
- 80% of Americans would switch to hybrid cars if they could afford themJust goes to show that......most Americans are sheep. Ok, lets do some simple math high school math teachers feel free to use this as a problem in your class. Lets compare a Honda Civic Sedan with...
- Tags: Honda Civic, Honda Motor Co., gas, hybrid car, car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Getting greener at home could be a gas
- Getting greener at home could be a gasGood ideasThere has been many great alternatives, and propane is one of them. But how can it ever get into the mainstream?When you think outside the box, you always get run over by somebody.A case comes to mind in Massachusetts where someone...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, gas, Propane, tax
- Discussion threads 2008-11-16
- 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
- The latest words on cars
- The latest words on carsBatteriesWhat's the plan for all those batteries when they have to be changed out? Not a good prospect for the nation's landfills. The auto companies, bastions of truth no doubt, tell us not to worry about the batteries, but they've got to go somewhere,...
- Tags: Engineering, battery, PZEV, gas, SUV, Toyota Prius, Yaris
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Images: Fiat concept runs on three fuels
- Fiat concept called Multipla Multi-Eco will run on regular gas, a mixture of gas and ethanol (E85) and methane.
- Tags: Fiat, gas, fuel
- Image galleries 2006-09-20
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- X-Prize competition for ultra-efficient car speeds ahead
- X-prize competition for cars1) Ummm, shouldn't that read 5.5 "million" dollars?2) Would it be possible to add some summary of whether qualifiy cars must be in some way fewaible - for example, can travel at least 55 mph for at least 50 miles on a single charge (or what ever...
- Tags: X-Prize competition, car, X-Prize
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Calculator for Science Students 2.9 (Windows)
- This is a very useful calculator for students. The system is designed to quickly carry out calculations and find commonly used reference data. The system contains a scientific calculator that can also calculate molecular mass, and from this main calculator over 80 other calculators and science tools can be called....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Dot Point Learning Systems, Note Pad Area, Measurement Converter, Productivity
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- 2010 Lexus RX 450h
- Photo gallery:2010 Lexus RX 450hRemember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza said, "I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable?" Well, sitting in the 2010 Lexus RX 450h is like being draped in velvet, and, with the economical hybrid drivetrain, it is socially responsible. Lexus vehicles show...
- Tags: Lexus
- Product reviews 2009-11-03
- Washington: lots of talk about global warming
- Lots of talk around the American capital today on the topic of global warming. The CO2 emissions from various political factions and lobbyists alone could raise the global temp another degree or two. And that's not counting the carbon footprint of all the plane travel involved in moving...
- Tags: U.S., Republican, Climate Change, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, European Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- What should open source do in a car?
- Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...
- Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- 2010 Infiniti QX56
- Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...
- Tags: Infiniti QX56
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- What's the key to Apple's success?
- One word: QUALITYA concept absent from WindowslandTDSo sad to see how Apple destroyed the word "innovation"Apple has never, ever, done anything innovative. By applying the term to blatant rebadging of 5 year old technology, you devalue the meaning of the word and insult those who actually [b]do[/b] innovate. For shame.Oh,...
- Tags: Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Smart grid grants
- Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...
- Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?
- There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, U.S. Congress, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms
- A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Universal phone charger OK'd
- The Universal Charging Solution will enable the creation of one-size-fits-all chargers that can be used on any future phone, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations. A standard for a universal phone charger was approved this week by the International...
- Tags: International Telecommunications Union, Phone, Telecom & Utilities, phone charger, Natalie Weinstein CNET News
- News items 2009-10-26
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