Monthly Archives: June 2009
Toyota (TM): 100 MPG By 2015, Or Bust
Toyota’s (TM) new management means to use every tool at its disposal to bring down the amount of fuel its cars need to operate as the price of oil continues to rise. Katsuaki Watanabe, who is leaving as the firm’s president, told that annual shareholder’s meeting that the world’s largest car company would take out even more expense than the 800 billion yen it announced earlier this year. Toyota also announced that it would launch a new fuel cell car by 2015. The car would have to get substa Continue reading
Bullet Trains and Virus-Powered Car Batteries – Vegetable Oil Conversion Kits for Autos and Trucks – where is all this stuff? – and batteries powered by carbos and sugar from 2007 – when do we get to use that?
** U.S. Stimulus Puts Bullet Trains On the Fast Track By Tim Padgett / Miami Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 Florida is considering plans to build a bullet train similar to France’s Train a Grande Vitesse [etc.] http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1906025,00.html?cnn=yes *** Very Nifty (and good pictures, too) – my note And, I did a search for vegetable oil conversions on Google looking for Atlanta, Georgia ones and found this which was really not in Georgi Continue reading
Is it Really Green?
Sainsbury’s brings green power to the checkout with ‘kinetic plates’ Energy will be captured every time a vehicle drives over “kinetic road plates” in the car park and then channelled back into the store. The kinetic road plates are expected to produce 30 kWh of green energy every hour — more than enough energy to power the store’s checkouts. The system, pioneered for Sainsbury’s by Peter Hughes of Highway Energy Systems, does not affect the car or fuel efficiency, and drivers feel no dist Continue reading
Zeroth strategy for waste oil disposal in Nigeria
By Emeka Chiakwelu www.afripol.org Strategist@afripol.org N igeria is relatively an emerging industrial nation, with dilapidated automobiles roaming the nooks and corners of the country together with the outdated industrial machineries are generating thousands of litres, if not millions of waste oil and lubricants. So are the emissions of the alarming quantities of atmospheric pollutants including photochemical pollutants, smog, gas flaring, sulfur oxides and fluorid Continue reading
Biodiesel Expansion Saving the Environment
by Carl Lederman Biodiesel expansion is a perfect solution to the world’s energy concerns, in theory. However, there is much more research to be done. The U. S. And many other countries rely on other countries to provide most of the fuel which they use. This along with concerns regarding the results of the long term use of fossil fuel, causes the country to strive towards developing alternative fuel choices. Fuel costs have reached an all-time high. This is another reason that alternatives a Continue reading