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- Chevy Volt: 230 mpg in city driving; Are you a buyer?
- Why the focus on MPG for an electric vehicle?The real question is: How much in increased electricity costs will one incur from recharging this vehicle "at least once a day"?That plus the added price tagare warning me away from this. If I thought I could save money versus buying a...
- Tags: car, mpg, battery
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- 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...
- Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, battery, X-REV, hybrid, car, electric vehicle
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...
- Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Apple moving up in green rankings
- Apple moving up in green rankingsEnvironmental FascistsJust in my 30 years on the planet...Gum never came in blister packs that people throw out.Pop came in glass bottles.You never saw crazy packaging like those for memory cards that have like 50 x more plastic than the card that is housed inside.Groceries...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, hydrogen fuel, Apple Inc., bottle, hydrogen, glass bottle
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Fly the green skies at Mach 5
- The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project LAPCAT. Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example, Popular Science reports that Reaction Engines Limited has designed an hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner simply dubbed A2. This plane would fly at Mach 5...
- Tags: Hydrogen, Plane, Concorde, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Pint-size hydro power on tap
- Pint-size hydro power on tapCrap!Hell froze over and the pope isn't gay! I actually agree with you! ]:)What a scam!You have to ask yourself what pressurizes the water in the first place...pumps, massive pumps!And what drives these pumps...electricity.So in short, you use energy to get the water flowing under pressure...
- Tags: Public relations, pump
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
- The plot behind killing electric cars
- The plot behind killing electric carsGM doesn't sell REAL hybrids!The so called "Hybrid" pickups from GM only turn off the gasengine while stopped. No real electric propulsion. Dodge doesnot sell the diesel hybrid RAM pickup to individuals. The Sprinterhybrid is only in testing. Ford only has...
- Tags: Engineering, Saturn, Toyota Motor Corp., battery, electric car, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Hydrogen fuel cells power Fujitsu data center
- Hydrogen fuel cells power Fujitsu data centerSlight of hand"Although carbon dioxide is expelled when producing hydrogen, the fuel cell will result in about 35 percent less greenhouse gas emissions overall..."Always funny when people believe that CO2 "flys" into the atmosphere. Even the kids show Beakmans World knows that CO2...
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., data center, fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- House: we have an energy bill
- House: we have an energy billTypicalmandates 15% to come from fill in the blank.Congressional arrogance at work again. Just wave your hand and think you can set aside the laws of physics.The best energy bill is one that throws open all U.S. oil reserves to drilling, and lifts the environmental...
- Tags: Transportation, energy bill, Hydro
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Hydrogen turbines generate clean electricity
- The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBL has developed near-zero-emission gas turbines using pure hydrogen as a fuel. But because this LSI (low-swirl injector) technology also can use other fuels, it has the potential to help eliminate millions of tons of carbon dioxide and thousands of tons of nitrous oxides NOx...
- Tags: Turbine, Burner, Adobe PDF, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- TechNet takes on green energy agenda
- TechNet takes on green energy agendaGuess they forgot aboutall that nuclear waste with minimum 10000 year half life.Whatever happened to the multi billion dollar federal project to build long term storage facilities for this stuff that has yet to work and had all kinds of problems with leaks and what...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, nuclear energy, fission, fusion, Nuclear Power Plant, Microsoft TechNet
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- A solar boat to cross the Atlantic
- A solar boat to cross the AtlanticSolar ships? Old tech.Marine engineers have long utilized solar power for propulsion. It's long been known that uneven distribution of solar energy over the planet's surface results in the displacement and redistribution of atmosperic gases. The kinetic energy of the migrating gases can be...
- Tags: sun21, Rhine
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- Power, water and refrigeration in one box
- Engineers at the University of Florida have developed and built a system that can provide power, water and refrigeration from a single unit. This project, funded by the U.S. Army, will lead to units small enough to fit inside a military jet or a large truck. The prototype system is...
- Tags: refrigeration, Lear, turbine
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
- Hybrid-car tinkerers scoff at no-plug-in rule
- Hybrid-car tinkerers scoff at no-plug-in ruleMaybe it's not a good idea to......reprint the cover story of the NY times technology section. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for disseminating information, but usually when articles are reprinted, it's not the verbatim copy of a main article of another publication.AlternativesIt's...
- Tags: Engineering, Electric-car, Oil Prices, battery, BTU, gasoline, Toyota Motor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-04-05
- DOE joins drive for fuel cell cars
- DOE joins drive for fuel cell carsYep, time to step upalternative fueling sources not only on the vehicular but plant level, meet and exceed EPA goals, and get off the dino treadmill.Won't happen.Growing up we were supposed to be on the moon by now. What ever happened to Moon Base...
- Tags: Fuel cells, knowledge, hydrogen, fuel cell, Firestone
- Discussion threads 2005-03-30
- Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell
- Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bellAlarm bells ring to deaf ears in Bush administrationThe current Bush priority is to dig for more oil, not find alternatives. This is a disaster in the making.The best hope is for other developed countries not pouring $1Billion a month into Iraq to invest in...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Mobile Energy, FUD
- Discussion threads 2004-12-15
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