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geneva motor show
Lotus Completes Omnivore Engine, Feeds It Alcohol
Talk fuel efficiency and words like "direct injection," "flex-fuel" and "variable compression ratio" are common. But they aren't usually combined with "two-stroke." Unless you're Lotus that is. More »
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By Wes SilerComment by Ash78: Sweet. I'd hate to see the question come down to "fuel efficiency and energy independence" vs "fighting the CO2 Boogie... 9 Responses | Other threads
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the royal family
Queen Converts Bentleys To Biofuels
The Queen is going green, converting her two custom $15 million Bentley Limos to run on bio-ethanol, preempting an effort by Bentley to do the same for its entire fleet.
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By Wes SilerComment by Jim-Bob: How can an Ethanol conversion improve fuel economy? The Stoichiometry is way off with ethanol (or is it methanol?) requiring... 5 Responses | Other threads
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80 MPG 400 HP '87 Mustang X Prize Contestant Heading To SEMA
When Doug Pelmear and his notchback Ford Mustang nearly broke the internet with his claims of some magical engine tinkering returning 110 MPGe (80 MPG) — while making 400 HP — we were skeptical to say the least. That "MPGe" figure is there because the car runs on ethanol, so the extra "e" on the end signifies the energy equivalent to a gallon of regular gasoline. Now Pelmear is taking the 110 MPG Mustang on a cross-country road trip to prove the skeptics (us) wrong, ending at this years SEMA show where he probably won't be popping the hood so everyone can poke around. The car is being entered in the Progressive Automotive X Prize contest as well, where it will compete against others with the goal of 100 MPG in a four-passenger car. We're going to continue waiting, edible hat in hand, for scientific measurements to back up his claims. [WNWO, via MustangRevolution]
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By Ben WojdylaComment by smalleyxb122: I would love to believe this is legit. If he's truly done it, he deserves all of the millions that... 15 Responses | Other threads
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I Cant Find E85
E85 Gas Pumps Pass 1,800 Mark, Still Can't Find One In Sarah Palin's Alaska
A new report shows the number of E85 ethanol pumps in the U.S. has grown nearly 28% in the past year, surpassing the 1,800 mark with 1,693 available for public use. The states with the most E85 pumps are, as you'd expect, in the corn belt, including Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri. Just don't expect to find them in every corner of the country: Despite the growth in E85 availability, seven states still don't have any E85 pumps, including Alaska. Considering E85 expansion is part of our current national energy policy, it makes us wonder if Governor Palin should revise her favorite chant to "distill, baby, distill." More »
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ethanol
Ethanol In Gasoline Reportedly Wreaking Havoc On Small Engines
If you've been having trouble with your small gasoline power equipment lately, MSNBC reports that you're not alone: Small-engine mechanics nationwide are seeing a spike in engine damage they claim is attributable to the increasing use of ethanol in gasoline. We're not talking about E85 here either; apparently, it's the much more common (and in some places ubiquitous) E10 blend, which is 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline, that technicians are blaming for gummed-up carburetors, internal rust and lubrication issues. More »
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By Andrew StoyComment by CBR2200: or you can get a *gasp* electric lawnmower. 4 Responses | Other threads
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i feel gassy
SwiftFuel Is Just Like Fuel, Except Probably Full Of Crap
Today brought us news of a purported new solution to high gas prices: SwiftFuel. Currently intended as a replacement for leaded 100-octane aviation fuel, SwiftFuel claims to be ethanol-based, but somehow free from ethanol's negatives such as its lower energy density, incompatibility with gasoline, and propensity to destroy rubber components. How do we know all this? The company's MySpace page told us so. But since we realize social networking sites sometimes contain minor misrepresentations, we decided to dig deeper. What we've discovered, and more importantly, what we still don't know, after the jump. More »
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By Andrew StoyComment by X5SoB went to Jamaica!: This stuff sounds like it was developed by Walden Farms Foods(Google it!). more » | Other threads
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i feel gassy
Avoid E85 Like A Plague Of Corn-Eating Locusts
Filing up your E85 vehicle might initially feel better due to prices that are, on average, about 20% cheaper than regular octane, but the joke is on you. Because gas engines burn the typically corn-based fuel less efficiently, the adjusted cost of E85 is $4.321 per gallon compared to gas that averaged about $3.962 on Friday. Even in states that subsidize the cost of the fuel, like New York and Iowa, the difference still results in prices that are equal to or worse than the price of regular gasoline. Though this still means you are using less dino juice, we feel that this is offset by the disruption of food crops and the fertilizer runoff that is impacting the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe you should look into Algae power. [Kicking Tires]
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Coors Puts Beer Waste To Use As Ethanol
As we continue our march towards the end of the highest-priced gas day of the year, let's turn to something a little bit more enjoyable to think about — like beer! Who says you have to harvest football fields worth of corn for one gallon of ethanol? Molson Coors Brewing Company, the company behind the delectable Coors Light has announced that it is the official E85 ethanol producer for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Wait, what? Seriously? A beer company is the ethanol sponsor for the Democratic National Convention? More »
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alternative energy
GM Says Challenge X Is The Future, We Say We Want It Now
Looking at the array of biodiesel hybrids, ethanol hydrogen hybrids and fuel cells on display in Central Park this morning, the impression we got was GM is looking to these technologies as the future. All we could think was how much they should be the present. You see, this wasn't a display of pie-in-the-sky concepts or prototypes, but actual vehicles capable of competently carrying humans and all of them designed and built by students on a limited budget. If a couple of pubescent geeks still waiting for their first pocket protectors can put a functioning biodiesel hybrid on a driveway, why isn't GM doing so right now? More » -
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Biofuel Comparison Chart Highlights Hypocrisy
The problem with the green movement isn't its goal of conservation — that's admirable — it's the gullibility many of its proponents suffer from and which big companies and governments are able to exploit to sell them on far-from-friendly products and policies. Take biofuel for instance. Many of its sources use more energy and effort than they're capable of producing, yet they receive subsidies and publicity over sources that might actually prove sustainable. This chart, put together by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer neatly sums this up. We only spot one glaring omission, poop. More »
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2008 la auto show
Cadillac Readying Hybrid Chopper For LA Auto Show
The Cadillac that ain't your father's may be just be two-wheeled. Word of a new Cadillac motorcycle sporting gee whiz ethanol hybrid technology has just surfaced in D Business. The Caddy that leans will be built by V20 Consulting in New York and shown off at the next LA Auto Show. The irony of an outside company building a technology demostrator isn't lost on us, but it isn't the first time the General has collaborated with someone on a motorcycle. Just a couple hundred feet from the Detroit offices lives the first Caddy chopper, built by and currently for sale at Great American Chopper in Clawson, MI. More » -
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Coskata Breaks Ground On Ethanol Plant, Could Make Fuel For $1 Per Gallon
Kings of ethanol and new GM buddy, Coskata, has announced it has broken ground on an new cellulosic ethanol plant in Pennsylvania that could be churning out the alternative fuel as early as next year. Coskata claims it can produce the two carbon alcohol at a cost of $1 per gallon so unless they aren't interested in getting to step three, expect pricing on the more renewable fuel to be higher than that. Regardless, it will likely beat the hell out of that $5.40 gallon gas bullshit going on in California. More »
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alternative energy
The Great Corn Conspiracy: Ethanol Additives Damaging Certain Boats
Many of us around these parts maintain a bit of skepticism when it comes to the prospect of corn-based ethanol serving as a long-term gasoline substitute, or even a viable short-term patch before our great hydrogen-powered future. Fun though it may be to make ethanol-powered Vettes and Corn gas Koenigsegg's, the idea of corn-based ethanol comes with a few problems including the environmental impact of production on the US Gulf Coast, energy efficiency and the inevitable war between Illinois and Nebraska over Iowa's fertile land. You can add to that list the deleterious effect that gas with a small percentage of ethanol has on fiberglass components in boats. Seriously. More »
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alternative energy
Union Pacific Rail Hops On Green Train Like Some Treehugging Hobo
Sometimes we're astonished by the kinds of spin we witness around Green issues. Take Union Pacific, for example. They just dropped a press release that touts their contribution to the environment—because they ferry around hybrid cars and are expanding their rail network, to the tune of a cool billion, so that they can better serve the American ethanol heartland. Are we questioning their motives? Yeah, kinda. More »
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racing news
Volvo C30 Is Mean Green Racing Machine
Those Swedish hippies are at it again. For 2008, Volvo is racing in the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) with a C30 hatch that runs on bioethanol fuel. And to make sure everyone knows it, they've paintedpsychedelic flowers"GREEN RACING" all over it. Allegedly, the car is based on a standard production C30, but there's no mention of a C30 STCC Street Version. Bummer.
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By Mark ArnoldComment by Bentoboxx, Now part owner of General Motors: Isn't Green Racing like Military Intellegence, Jumbo Shrimp, or Sober Lohan???? more » | Other threads
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geneva motor show
Saab 9-X Is A Hybrid Of Concept And Reality
The Saab 9-X BioHybrid Concept is allegedly more than just another far-fetched yet stylish show car. Actually, this vehicle is supposed to hint strongly at an upcoming 9-1. For now, GM claims the car is powered by a 200HP 1.4-liter turbo four-banger, with magical Swedish hippie hybrid trickery. GM also feels the need to tell us that the engine can run on E85— as if that's even newsworthy anymore. No word on where the ignition key will go. But you know how Saab loyalists are about that extra-special quirk. Press release after the jump. More »
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By Mark ArnoldComment by dfwguy: @Bento: What is so intriguing about a "Start" button. Mama's '59 Rambler had a start button AND push button shift. more » | Other threads
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d.c. auto show
Ford Extending E85 Corn Goodness To E-Series, Navigator and Expedition
More exciting action from the D.C Auto Show as Ford snuck some E85 news into the 2009 Ford Escape press release. The company's E-Series vans, Navigator and Expedition will be able to run on E85 fuel this year, which is good news for the small percentage of the people reading this that have access to the approximately 0.01% of gas stations in the United States that actually offer Ethanol and are suddenly in the market for a bold-faced commercial van. Excuse us if we're not that excited. We really wanted them to announce they were building an E-Series van that runs on straight vegetable oil. Press release below the jump. More »
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Comment by RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment: @vortec42: So, gallon for gallon, ethanol still doesn't provide more power. It simply can be used in high compression/boosted engines which... more » | Other threads
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detroit auto show
Detroit Auto Show: Ferrari to Reduce Emissions 40% by 2012
Ferrari announced two goals for upcoming vehicles: to increase power-to-weight ratios and reduce emissions. To go along with some fairly ugly green stickers, their ethanol-fueled F430 prototype boasts 10bhp extra — bringing the total to 493bhp — and 5 percent lower emissions. It could be on sale by 2010, forming part of the company's pledge to shrink overall emissions 40 percent by 2012. Apparently, 5 percent at a time. -
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Detroit Auto Show: GM>>Next Press Event
GM's new green push, dubbed GM>>next, shows what happens when a global multinational throws a few tens of millions in public relations and directs marching orders toward facing down rival Toyota's reputation, deserved or not, for greenness. It's the marketing wrapper under which all of GMs's alternative energy projects exist. One of those is GM's backing of E85 Ethanol, the increased production of which they're saying will reduce the use of fossil fuels to the tune of 30 percent by 2030. In between, the speculation on corn will continue to drive the price of dairy products, Cheetos and high-fructose corn syrup through the roof. The visual metaphor for the press event was extreme juggler Chris Bliss, who did a truly outstanding juggling number to the tune of the Beatles' "Carry That Weight." The balls were yellow, the color of GM's Ethanol initiative, corn itself, and many other things like Rick Wagoner's tie, bananas and one-fifth of Toucan Sam. Can midwest plus corn equal page inches? They also introduced the Hummer HX concept, whose V6 is set up to handle E85. GM also announced a partnership with Ethanol producer Coskata, which says it's got a way to make production more efficient and get more energy out of every drop. Harumph. Do these guys know how much Corn Flakes are now? Like $800 bucks an ounce.
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industry news
Senate Passes Revised Energy Bill, Hybrid Escalades For All!
After much back and forth, including a veto threat and failure to get cloture, the energy bill has finally passed the Senate by a vote of 86-8. To get the votes, Democrats had to compromise on utility reductions and increasing taxes on oil companies. The new bill will require automakers to reach a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of 35 mpg by 2020, as well as increase ethanol use to 36 billion gallons a year. More »
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Fuel Economy Rules Near Completion, Automakers Shift to Bicycle Production?
It looks like automakers will have to meet the dreaded 35-mpg fuel economy standard despite the gazillion dollars they claim it will take to get their cars sipping gasoline like it's Dom Pérignon. Senate and House members are working out the final details of a bill that will likely have a significant impact on what we drive over the next decade and then some. Automakers had been lobbying against the initial bill, expressing specific concern over wording that would require cars and light trucks to meet the same 35-mpg benchmark. The latest edition allows vehicle to meet standards lower than 35 mpg based on their weight and size as long as an automaker's entire fleet meets the 35-mpg standard. Click through the jump to find out what other changes are expected — and what the chances are that Toys 'R Us (how the hell do you type a backwards 'R' on a computer?) will bring back that $50 Dodge Viper bike. More »
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By tingwallComment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: @DANIO3834 - Being an engineer, i blame the management at the Detroit automakers for making the specific choice castrating their... more » | Other threads
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Termite Gut Microbe Study: Cheap Cellulosic Ethanol Soon?
Wouldn't it be great if we had a super-cheap way to make ethanol out of cellulosic materials such as switchgrass and wood chips? The problem is that you need to turn the cellulose into simple sugars before you can ferment it into ethanol... but termites have managed the trick for gadzillions of years, so why not figure out exactly what magic takes place in their guts and replicate it on an industrial scale? Some white coats at Caltech have taken a big step in that process, performing a vast genomic study of the microbes in Nasutitermes termites' guts and identifying more than a thousand potentially useful enzymes. Hooray, soon we'll all be running 16:1 compression alky-burners! [MIT]
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Enterprise Opens First Ethanol Branch
Because there aren't enough things for rental car companies to screw up, Enterprise is now opening an all flexfuel branch in Kirkwood, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis). This is another salvo in the war to seem the greenest, with other companies offering carbon offsets and hybrids and the like. The new location will be adjacent to the city's first E85 pump, so that drivers can actually put ethanol in their rentals. GM makes a fairly large fleet of ethanol vehicles, so you should still be able to rent the full range of products in flexfuel form. Press release below the jump. More » -
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Diesel Tops Hybrids, E85 in RAND Study
Those funky number crunchers at the RAND Corp have found that owning a diesel is slightly more cost efficient for the buyer than a hybrid, but that owning either contributes to the betterment of society. The study also found that E85 kind of blows, relative to the other options. Diesel was the overall winner as it provided the highest savings over the life of the vehicle ($460 for cars, $1,249 for SUV's and $2,289 for trucks), compared to hybrids ($198 for cars, $505 for trucks and $1,066 for SUV's). E85 cars actually cost their owners more over the lifetime of the vehicles, though still assure that someone missing part of their spine will be elected president. Full release after the jump: More »
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new cars
Audi A5 E85 Edition Spotted In San Francisco
The folks at CNet's Crave blog were out driving an Infiniti G37 on the curve-tastic streets of San Francisco when they came across a brand-spanking new, and as-of-this-moment unavailable, Audi A5. Even more strange was the car was branded with white lettering declaring that it runs on E85 and that it was powered by the 2-liter turbocharged Euro engine instead of the 3.2-liter V6 it'll have when it comes stateside next year. [via Crave] -
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Ethanol will not make cars "greener." Period. [Economist]
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Buy Ethanol At GM's "E85 Days Of Summer" For 85 Cents Per Gallon, Get Free Corn Chips!
We normally couldn't care less about automaker pre-produced segments, and we'd never post them. That is until we found this one for the General's "E85 Days Of Summer" — a seven-city summer tour to promote the use of ethanol. We mean, come on — the lack of imagination, the abject literalism, the amateurish delivery, we give it three thumbs up! [via GM FYI Blog] -
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Michigan State University Receives Federal Grant Monies For Ethanol Research
"On the banks of the Red Cedar, there's a school that's known to all. It's specialty is farming and those Spartans know their alcohol. Spartan scientists are never beaten, all through the federal funding fight! Fight for the only formulations, E-eighty-five. Go right through for MSU, watch the fed funding growing. Spartan applications are bound to win, they're written with a vim. Rah! Rah! Rah! See their team is weakening, we're gonna win this cash!
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Corn Demand Up, Pizza Prices Skyrocket
In an odd confluence of modern supply and demand, cheese prices are expected to jump sharply in the coming months. Rising gas prices are spiking the cost to move the milk around, and the corn used to feed the cows is more expensive due in part to increased demand for Ethanol. Papa John, Fat Jimmy, and Pizza the Hut have warned that more expensive pizza is on the way. Processed nacho cheese product costs appear stable at this time. More »
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Cohorts of Count Grishnackh May Ban Norwegian Gas-Power'd Car Sales
Some Norwegian politicos seem to have let all of those Burzum records go to their head and are intent on killing the gasoline internal-combustion engine as dead as Mayhem frontman Euronymous. Ruling Labor, Socialist Left and Center party wonks are checking to see if a ban on gasoline-powered vehicle sales would be illegal, forcing a move to biofuels on the part of automakers who want to do business in the Scandanavian nation. According to Truls Wickstrom of the Transport Committee, "Most of the major car makers are banking on flexi-fuel." Yep, Truls. They're also banking on hydrogen, electricity and diesel. Except Ferrari. Ferrari don't play that. More » -
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El Presidente Congratulates Milka Duno
El Presidente Chavez says he is happy Venezuelan driver Milka Duno and Citgo will run the Indy 500, even though no gasoline will be involved. The surprise is that Al Gore or any other American politician didn't beat El Presidente to thisaggrandizementpolitical punch, considering Indy cars have been running on alternative fuel of the alcohol kind since the '60s. This year the traditional methanol has been replaced by a home-brewed ethanol special corn blend. Milk will still be served to the winner on Sunday, who El Presidente says will be Milka. More »
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one for the road
For Goodness Sake! Rice Wine to Fuel Cars in Japan
Japan is the world's second-largest consumer of gasoline, and its first largest consumer of rice wine. Those two markets don't have a lot in common, unless we're talking about the risk of a besotted Salaryman heaving into your lane on the Koshu Kaido. But actually, a pilot program in the mountain resort of Shinanomachi will soon produce sake for the sake of ethanol biofuel. The government-funded project will give local farmers a way to rid themselves of farm waste like rice hulls, while helping Japan reduce dependence on imported oil. We're holding out for a Top Sake dragster class. More » -
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E85 Worse For Environment Than Regular Gas?
The AP's Seth Borenstein is reporting that there's a Stanford study out this week using some kind of a computer model to claim burning ethanol's worse for the environment than burning straight gasoline. His model indicates an extra 20 people would die each year if "...all vehicles in the United States ran on a mostly ethanol fuel blend by 2020." Well, seeing as I can't find a station selling that level of corn-enhanced gas in a fuel tank's distance of where I live — I'm thinking his model's not so realistic. Plus, we'll all be in flying cars and stuff by then. More » -
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WTCC Moving to Bioethanol
Starting in 2009, the World Touring Car Championship will move entirely to bio-derived ethanol to fuel its racing vehicles. In 2008, ethanol-motivated racing machines will compete alongside both gasoline and diesel cars before the entire field makes the switch the following year. The FIA is backing the move and aiding in research of fuel types. It'll be interesting to see how the ethanol cars compete against the diesel and petrol vehicles in the thick of the action; we actually wish that the diversity of fuels in the series would remain, as a way to spur development across the board. More »
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Comment by no_slushbox: Ethanol = 100+ octane fuel, should be good for compression ratios and turbo boost. How it competes against gas... more » | Other threads
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E85 for All Our Friends: Bush and Lula Party in Brazil
President Bush is in Brazil today causing a ruckus, creating traffic jams, and hanging out at at a mega fuel depot touting the new biofuels agreement between Brazil and the USA. Brazil is the world's largest single producer of ethanol, making theirs from sugary cane instead of corn. While chumming around with Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bush said he wants to promote the trade of ethanol as a world commodity, but has no interest in lifting the 54-cent a gallon tariff on the ethanol already coming to the USA from Brazil. Conspiracy theorists and Senators are already grumbling about the formation of an OPEC-style ethanol and biofuels cartel. More »
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You Want Cellulosic Ethanol? Ante Up, Washington!
According to this article out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a new plant is Louisana that will make 1.4 million gallons of ethanol from cellulosic sources (e.g., wood chips, corn cobs, etc.) will begin production next year. But that won't be enough, states the article, and it never will be if the feds don't step in with some research bux muy pronto. All I have to say is I'm gonna build a 14:1 compression motor as soon as I can get cheap pure alcohol at the corner gas station. More »
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India Walks Walk, Talks Talk on Renewable Fuel
While D.C. fat cats here in the land of the free bluster on about the political bandwagon that is ethanol, several organizations in India actually seems to be doing real work on the subject of renewable fuels. Instead of playing into the hands of the "ethanol has super potential" crowd, the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is working with some fungi and a plant called the Jatropha curcas to develop a self sustaining biodiesel industry. The best part? If you eat one of the nuts from the plant, you feel ill, two, and you may blow chunks, and four you may die... cool. Oh and it also produces oil that can be readily modified into fuel oil with heating energy of up to 26400 kwh/ha (which comes out to about the energy equivalent of 252 gallons of petroleum diesel per acre). Yowza. Scientist Alok Adholeya (snicker) and others at TERI spent five years... More » -
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Jalopnik Does Math Good: A Corny State Of The Union Address?
Ok, so here's what we know. Earlier today FoMoCo issues a press release tauting six states receiving a test fleet of new E85-fueled hybrid Escape SUV's (gallery below). On top of that news, but wholly unrelated, there appears to be some kind of a run in stocks of companies involved in E85 production today. We've also heard unconfirmed reports the ethanol lobby plans to open up a bigger office in Washington, DC. How can these seemingly unrelated things all be happening today? To explain, let's put it together into a handy math equation below the jump. More »
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By Ray WertComment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: A better way to economically produce fuel from corn and switchgrass is if Bush and his buddies in the Archer-Daniels... more » | Other threads
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Renault Announces Green Cars by 2010
Carlos the Jackalope's minions have announced plans to have a hybrid fuel-cell vehicle on European roads in 2010. Designed primarily as a city car, the runabout will feature a pack of lithium-ion cells recharged via regenerative braking. Also, the Trafic and Master vans will go the way of GM's large vehicles and run on E85 for the 2007 model year. A flex-fuel Megane is also in the works, and by 2009, half of the vehicles the company sells will be E85 capable. More »
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