Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'car'
Ethanol wants to cosy up to Detroit
Large sections of the US ethanol business have been writing to the US car makers asking them to support higher volume blends of ethanol in future and tying that message to an innovate or die warning... It could be a...
Fuel from Corn
I saw this image on Flickr (thankyou Mista Fitz) and thought it was a rather strong image of what many people think is wrong with biofuels at the moment. It may not tell the whole story in terms of...
What do you think about this picture
I was sent the link to this in the Biofuelwatch newsgroup. © Chappatte - www.globecartoon.com Let me know what you think about the cartoon....
Cool fleets
After my earlier post about elephants and fuel efficiency, I came across this, coolfleets, put together by the Sierra Club and Donlen Corporation, It lets you compare the price of running a number of different types of car fleet. The...
Clean as you go and there's more potential biofuel
Clean as you go and there's more potential biofuel, three inventors from North Wales have developed a box that can capture the exhaust gases of cars so they can be used to grow algae. There are a number of technical...
Sake a potential biofuel
Sake, the national drink of Japan, could potentially be used as fuel in vehicles in the near future if a pilot project takes off. At this moment, the town of Shinanomachi has produced a cheap ethanol brew from rice that...
OK, so how do we get the ethnol to market
Chatting over lunch, at the First Investing in Clean Fuels forum, we have to wonder how many more rail tank cars will be needed in the US if all the extra ethanol has to be made and moved around the...
Marketing ethanol to the people
This is as nice a piece of marketing for ethanol as you could hope to find anywhere. For me it only falls down when...
Biofuels only by 2025?
Could the G8 make it impossible to register and license cars that run on gasoline by 2025? Would it be desirable? Two economists, Volker Perthes and Friedemann Müller from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, believe that it...
Selective Breeding and gentic modification?
According to a report on allheadlinenews Prince Charlres (heir to the kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is expecting to take delivery of Jaguar cars that are designed to run on biodiesel....
Biodiesel powered Jet Car
Lot of noise in the US about Jay Leno's new custom built “biodiesel” powered jet car, reported on Popular Mechanics, courtesy of Instapundit They talk quite a bit about biodiesel, but......
Basques to the fore with bioethanol
It seems that the Basque people of Northern Spain have decided it is time to move to biofuels, well at least their environmental department. According to the a Basque technology website blog... the Saab 9.5 Biopower will be the new...
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