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  • Eggs as an Alternative Fuel?

    Posted July 26th, 2008 by Alyssa Royse

    I have to go somewhere that is 7 miles from my house.

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  • Zero Net Energy City - Masdar Development

    Posted July 5th, 2008 by Myles Huddart

    The first zero waste, zero carbon emission city is to be constructed in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Masdar City, a $22 billion complex designed by Sir Norman Foster + Partners, will be kicked off with the completion of a mixed-use positive energy headquarters building, the first of its kind in the world.

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  • The Orion Project: Superheros Save Humanity From Oil Addiction

    Posted April 19th, 2008 by Susan Janvrin

    Imagine a world with clean power plants. All transportation, manufacturing, recycling would be done with near zero impact on the planet. Even better, the energy supply would be free (or low cost) and renewable. There would be no wires and poles, no dirty energy grid and no nuclear power.

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  • I Can't Believe There Are Still...

    Posted November 27th, 2007 by Byron McCann

    ...so many incandescent light bulbs burning when compact fluorescent bulbs have been made available at great prices like $0.99 each by their manufacturers and retailers.

     

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  • Biofuels, OPEC and Agricultural Protectionism

    Posted November 18th, 2007 by Byron McCann

    A good friend who recently moved to New Zealand from Seattle just altered me to an interesting blog post about biofuels and how they may neutralize OPEC's pricing strength and give governments some relief from agricultural protectionism.

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  • Propel Biofuels Opens It First Station in Seattle

    Posted October 11th, 2007 by Byron McCann

    Propel Biofuels, a new biofuels retailer, opened its first "clean fueling point" in Seattle Washington today. Among those attending were Senator Maria Cantwell who expressed the importance of alternative energy and the efforts to make biodiesel more available and convenient to consumers.

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  • Gridlocked Thinking

    Posted September 17th, 2007 by Alyssa Royse

    Sometimes I think that the only reason I watch the morning news is so that I can get that adrenaline rush of energy that only happens when you hear something so inane that you are literally filled with the energized need to scream "are you kidding me?" from the highest mountain top you can find. This, for today anyway, is my mountain top.

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  • Biodiesel - The Ultimate Flex Fuel

    Posted September 7th, 2007 by Byron McCann

    It's little known that diesel vehicles are the perfect "flex fuel" vehicle. Unlike gasoline engines that need to have special features to enable them to burn different levels of an ethanol/gasoline mixture, diesel engines can burn any combination of petro-diesel and bio-diesel without modification. That means now!

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