92 mpg DIY Diesel Insight
| 92 mpg DIY Diesel Insight From SlashDot:“Just replaced the gasoline engine in a Honda Insight with a Diesel engine. On a 3,000 mile cross-country shakedown journey the car averaged 92mpg over 1,800 miles. Around a very hilly town in Northwest Washington, the car is averaging 78mpg. These mileage averages are without the electric side of the vehicle fully functional. With [.] |
| China, US near climate-change deal over fuel efficiency. China and the US, the biggest sources of the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet, have stood in the way of an international climate treaty for almost as long as there have been efforts to craft one. Now, the two countries may be moving toward agreement. |
| How to Harvest Savings by Greening Leases By Climate Corps FellowGreen leasing is becoming more popular in real estate these days as building owners and tenants find themselves codependent when it comes to reducing consumption. |
| Research finds higher acidity in Alaska waters. A marine scientist says the state’s marine waters are turning acidic from absorbing greenhouse gases faster than tropical waters, potentially endangering Alaska’s $4.6 billion fishing industry. |
| China says climate talks stymied by political interests. Little progress has been made so far on a new pact to combat global warming, with “commercial and political interests” continuing to prevail, China’s senior climate change official said on Monday. |
SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar worked jointly and have come out with their precious device called SunCatchers(TM). They exhibited their four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). SunCatchers are the new dishes that will be utilized on commercial-scale by 2010. Chuck Andraka, [.]Posted in: Industry, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power |
| Kickin the Tires on the Hybrid Truck Market By Rachel BeckhardtBack in 2000, EDF and FedEx joined forces to develop a hybrid diesel-electric delivery truck and selected Eaton Corporation to build it. The idea was that the drive train Eaton built EUR which reduces fuel consumption while cutting pollution EUR would eventually reach economies of scale and transform the industry.A recent GreenBiz article about Eaton [.] |
| Energy Day and Night from Solar/Fuel Cell Combination Splitting Water by efficient, catalyzed electrolysis to give hydrogen and oxygen gases, and combining this with solar cells for the generation of electricity; See video link.  |
| Video: More on Those Forged Letters By Keith GabyPeople are using the word “astroturfing” a lot lately, but this video makes it clear that the people working for the lobbyists trying to block cap and trade legislation stooped to a level even lower than that. Angry? Share the video with your friends! |