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EV News: Tesla Model X, 1907 Electric Car With 80-Mile Range, Electric Trains...
Beyond our own electric vehicle (EV) stories, here are some topic EV stories from around the interwebs from the past week or so: Trains Hybrid Trains are the Future: EU to Fit KERS Systems to...
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UK Scientists Plan To Recycle Power Plant Emissions Into Fuel
Scientists of the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh are working on photo-catalytic reduction technology which would recycle carbon dioxide emissions from power plants into liquid and gaseous fuels for...
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China’s Growing Methanol Economy
This post first appeared on RealClearEnergy By Zana Nesheiwat Could methanol be the feasible path towards replacing petroleum-based fuels? Balancing dependence on Middle East oil against increasing...
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Dave’s Top 10 Cleantech & Energy Stories From Last Month
As part of staying current, literally hundreds of clean energy articles are reviewed each month. Thank you, Google. Dozens of relevant stories are found and reported to my network at month’s end and...
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Florida’s Newest Ethanol Plant Makes Energy from Garbage
A new facility in South Florida is turning organic garbage and yard clippings into fuel-grade ethanol, and is ramping up to deliver more than 8-million gallons of renewable, sustainable, low-emissions...
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MIT Study: 200,000 Premature Deaths Caused by Emissions
After spending over 15 years surrounded by race cars, engine dynos, motorcycles, and loud, angry combustion-engines in general, it was easy to form a positive opinion on ethanol. Simply put, the...
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10 Top Cleantech & Environment Stories From September
Here’s my latest monthly report of the “Top 10” most compelling non-CleanTechnica clean energy and environment-related news stories encountered last month. These articles may have an impact on your...
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Ethanol Doesn’t Lower Gas Prices — Gas Prices Not Substantially Affected By...
The widespread use of ethanol hasn’t substantially reduced the wholesale cost of gasoline, according to new research from MIT. The new findings contradict earlier research that attributed an observed...
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Need An Alternative Fuel Station? Now There’s An App For That.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released a new app, the Alternative Fueling Station Locator, listing the location and details of 15,000 alternative vehicle fueling stations across America....
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Breaking Down The Numbers On Ethanol: Inside The Associated Press Biofuels...
Originally published on ClimateProgress by Jeff Spross The Associated Press released a scathing new report on environmental degradation driven by American biofuel policy on Tuesday — which promptly got...
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Switzer Doubles Horsepower, Keeps MPG The Same In Flex Fuel Nissan
Tym Switzer and the crew at Oberlin, Ohio–based Switzer Performance have made a name for themselves by building incredibly powerful ethanol-fueled super cars that are seriously fast and utterly...
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13 Huge Clean Energy Breakthroughs Of 2013
Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Kiley Kroh. While the news about climate change seems to get worse every day, the rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility...
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Science Smackdown: Key Points On Renewable & EV Revolution From Mark Z Jacobson
I just recently ran across this video below. I actually shared it not long after it was published, but that was a year and a half ago. The video includes excellent talks by Mark Z Jacobson, Mark...
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Solar Panels & Solar Plants — A Solution To Several Problems
Originally published on PV Solar Report. By Rosana Francescato A new study looks at the benefits of double-purposing land for agave cultivation and solar panels. The advantages of this ingenious...
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Think Green Jobs Can’t Grow? 6.5 Million Workers Think You’re Wrong.
The world added nearly a million green jobs in 2013, extending into developing countries on solar's surge, says the International Renewable Energy Agency Think Green Jobs Can’t Grow? 6.5 Million...
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First Industrial-scale Municipal Solid Waste to Biofuel Facility Opens
Originally published in the ECOreport The first industrial-scale municipal solid waste to biofuel facility opened in Edmonton on June 4, 2014. Enerkem’s waste-to-biofuels and chemicals facility will...
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7 Interesting Global Renewable Energy Trends From NREL (Charts Galore!)
The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory's 2013 Renewable Energy Data Book provides insight into dozens of global energy trends. Here are 7 to watch 7 Interesting Global Renewable Energy Trends...
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Buh-Bye, Corn Ethanol: Joule Makes The Same Thing From Recycled CO2
The company Joule is giving nightmares to the corn ethanol industry with a new round of $40 million in financing to scale up its recycled CO2-to-fuel plant Buh-Bye, Corn Ethanol: Joule Makes The Same...
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Camelina Biofuel A Solution To Food vs Fuel Biofuel Conundrum?
There are few clear-cut answers to using biofuels to meet our increasing energy demands. Among questions being debated: Are we growing crops for food or fuel? Who, if anybody, gets shortchanged? What...
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New Corn Ethanol Study Finds Renewable Fuel Standard “Created More Problems...
A ten-year review of the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by researchers at the University of Tennessee (UT) found that the RFS is “too reliant” on corn ethanol, and the production of this biofuel is...
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