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Canadian scientist creates atmosphere-saving CO2 scrubbing machine - Miscellaneous

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:55:48 -0000

An ever-present point of concern for the planet’s future welfare, worries over damaging CO2 emissions could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a University of Calgary climate change scientist who’s developed a machine capable of removing CO2 from the air.

More pointedly, David Keith and a team of researchers working out of the University of Calgary have been diligently looking for a way to capture harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air by utilising “near-commercial” technology.

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More pointedly, David Keith and a team of researchers working out of the University of Calgary have been diligently looking for a way to capture harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air by utilising “near-commercial” technology.

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Newsvine - Plug-in cars sparking a power shift

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:08:25 -0000

Traffic was piling up going from West Seattle to Interstate 5 — and that meant Rich Feldman had to drive a few feet and stop, over and over, all the way up the access ramp.

As they looked out at the line of cars ahead of their plug-in Toyota Prius, Feldman and the business executive sitting beside him, John Clark, couldn't have been happier.

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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:17:43 -0000

Shai Agassi looks up and down the massive rectangular table in the Ritz-Carlton ballroom and begins to worry. He knows he's out of his league here. For the last day and a half, he's been listening to an elite corps of Israeli and US politicians, businesspeople, and intellectuals debate the state of the world. Agassi is just one of 60 sequestered in a Washington, DC, hotel for a conference run by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Among the participants: Bill Clinton, former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, and two past directors of the CIA.

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Peak Energy: The Ford Global Challenge - A Green Car That Runs On Air?

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:15:07 -0000

The challenge set by Ford Global Technologies is to design a Model-T for the 21st Century - an inexpensive, innovative and sustainable car. Deakin University is the only Australian university and one of only five worldwide invited to participate in the Challenge, part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the fabled Model T; the car that changed the 20th Century.

Deakin University's 'under wraps' design for the Ford Global Challenge left for Detroit on 29th August carried by Deakin's Tim de Souza (Chief Design Engineer) and Stuart Hanafin (Portfolio Coordinator). Deakin's project is code-named T2 ('TSquared').

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Green Car Congress: Toyota Releases Sustainability Report 2008, Looks to Liquid Peak

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:41:00 -0000

Concurrent with the release of its annual financial report, Toyota has published Sustainability Report 2008: Towards a New Future for People, Society, and the Planet. The report, which is the third since Toyota switched from environmental to sustainability reports in 2006, is structured around three themes: sustainable mobility (products), sustainable plant initiatives (manufacturing), and contributing to the development of a sustainable society—also referred to as “nurturing society.”

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The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:36:43 -0000

If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, offers a navigation system, and gets a whopping 65 miles to the gallon. Oh yes, and the car is made by Ford Motor (F), known widely for lumbering gas hogs.

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Hydrogen Cars Go Cross-Country With Help From Fossil Fuels | Autopia from Wired.com

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:30:26 -0000

Hydrogen cars get no respect. A lot of people consider them the stuff of science fiction, a technology as vaporous as the stuff that drives them. But despite some hurdles even Liu Xiang couldn't clear -- creating a fueling infrastructure comes to mind -- Uncle Sam and the big automakers love hydrogen cars and are driving across the country in a fleet of them to prove they work.

Even if they're occasionally hauled on trucks.

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We Test the Tips: What Really Saves Gas? And How Much?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:06:21 -0000

With gas prices so high, the media is awash with lists of gas-saving tips. Well how's this for a tip? If you listen to us, you can see hybrid-type savings without having to buy a new car.

By changing your driving habits you can improve fuel economy up to 37 percent right away (depending on how you drive). Combine several tips and perform routine maintenance and you will save real dollars, not just pennies.

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Supply and Demand, Prius Style | Autopia from Wired.com

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:10:49 -0000

The value consumers place on goods and services often is a matter of simple economics. When demand is high and supply low, relative worth heads north. This fundamental truth from our friend Adam Smith couldn’t be more relevant to the car business these days.

Visit any dealership and ask how many thousands of dollars in incentives are available on trucks and SUVs collecting dust on the lot. On the flip side, the Prius hybrid's massive worldwide appeal is not only a sign of our energy-afflicted times but proof of what happens when there are more shoppers than cars.

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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 55-mph speed limit may have found its Washington patron

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:24:48 -0000

Is the double-nickel speed limit ready for a comeback?

Congress thus far has shown no movement toward resurrecting the 55-mph speed limit, but one of the Senate's senior members — Republican John Warner of Virginia — says it's time to start the conversation about an energy-saving national speed limit to help spare Americans from usurious fuel costs.

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Fill up your car... at your home hydrogen fuel station | Mail Online

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:33:04 -0000

A fuel station producing enough hydrogen to run householders' homes and cars has been unveiled today.

The British invention, due to go on sale within two years, is roughly the size of a heating boiler and will cost under £2,000.

Its creators say it will revolutionise commuting, help homeowners slash energy bills, and give easy access to a fuel that does not produce carbon dioxide emissions, helping to combat climate change.

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Natural Gas Cars: CNG Fuel Almost Free in Some Parts of the Country : Gas 2.0

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:32:32 -0000

So far, CNG vehicles haven’t made a blip on my radar screen, even though the group Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVA) estimates there are 150,000 NGVs on U.S. roads today and over 5 million worldwide. It took a phone call from sunny Southern Utah to clue me in to recent developments, which include a local refueling station overflowing with CNG-hungry vehicles.

There are about 1500 CNG refueling stations in the US, which is about the same number of commercial stations offering E85 ethanol blends. Utah has a total of 91 CNG filling stations, most of which are reserved for commercial fleet use, but there are 20 open to the public. According to an article by the Associated Press, you could drive Utah from top to bottom and hit 22 different stations offering compressed natural gas.

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Looking at Hydrogen to Replace Gasoline in Our Cars: Scientific American

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:09:47 -0000

The jury is still out on whether hydrogen will ultimately be our environmental savior, replacing the fossil fuels responsible for global warming and various nagging forms of pollution. Two main hurdles stand in the way of mass production and widespread consumer adoption of hydrogen “fuel cell” vehicles: the still high cost of producing fuel cells, and the lack of a hydrogen refueling network.

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AFS Trinity Power – A revolution in Fast Energy Storage™ featuring the Extreme Hybrid™.

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:53:20 -0000

AFS Trinity Power has developed patent-pending technology that makes it possible for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to achieve 150 MPG, go 40 miles in all-electric mode, and use gasoline for additional unlimited miles in hybrid mode.

In July 2007, in order to very quickly demonstrate all of the key attributes of this technology, the company mounted an effort to build two fully operational XH-150 SUV prototypes using off-the-shelf components. The two vehicles—modified Saturn Vue SUVs—were built in less than six months. They were unveiled on January 13, 2008 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit (Press Announcement) and (Salon.com test drive report).

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Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW | Autopia from Wired.com

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:33:46 -0000

With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term "fuel efficiency" with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 235 mpg.

Volkswagen's had its super-thrifty One-Liter Car concept vehicle -- so named because that's how much fuel it needs to go 100 kilometers -- stashed away for six years. The body's made of carbon fiber to minimize weight (the entire car weighs just 660 pounds) and company execs didn't expect the material to become cheap enough to produce the car until 2012.

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India's 50-MPG Tata Nano: Auto Solution or Pollution?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:07:50 -0000

It's Tuesday morning and the streets of Bangalore are, as always, jammed with traffic and saturated with smog. A young tech worker and his pregnant wife navigate the dusty roads on a tiny scooter, a 125-cc Hero Honda. Srinivasan Chandra's hands sweat onto the handlebars as he waits for the light to turn green. The journey from home to office is only 6 miles, but road conditions and rush hour have turned the four-lane highway into a cross between a parking lot and a demolition derby.

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Vacuum cleaner king James Dyson plans solar-powered car | Mail Online

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:06:18 -0000

James Dyson is working on a solar-powered car to match the success of his bagless vacuum cleaner.

Engineers at the entrepreneur’s Wiltshire HQ are developing a lightweight electric motor that could power a family saloon for hundreds of miles.

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10-Easy-Ways-to-Save-Over-a-Grand-on-Gas: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:50:06 -0000

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Genepax shows off water-powered fuel cell vehicle - Engadget

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:27:39 -0000

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Scottish Company Claims Technology Can Double Vehicles' MPG : TreeHugger

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:01:24 -0000

If electric vehicles aren't your thing, then you may be pleased to hear that at least one company is working on giving that tried and true internal combustion engine a major boost. Artemis, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based company, has developed a hydraulic hybrid transmission that could potentially double the mileage of most vehicles -- by accident, as it happens. The firm's original goal had been to simply reduce CO2 emissions on the highway by 30% (a goal it also achieved).

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