Ethanol sales for 2008 for the first time are outpacing those of gasoline in Brazil, a top ethanol producer, the National Petroleum Agency reported Tuesday.
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Head winds are blowing in the face of alternative energy
Tailwinds will soon give alternative energy a boost in the form of the energy policies and subsidies from the incoming Barack Obama administration.
Ford scores marketing coup with thrifty Fusion hybrid
fficient midsize sedan on the market when it arrives this spring, clocking in at 41 miles per gallon, according to data given to Ford Motor by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Chrysler’s plan to beat the Chevy Volt
15 Dec 2008 at 17:14
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Alternative Energy, Electric cars, Technology, Transportation
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Chrysler is pinning a huge part of its future on a plan to produce a full line of electric vehicles, at a reasonable cost to both the carmaker and the consumer.
Harvesting Electricity From Moving Vehicles
13 Dec 2008 at 12:17
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Alternative Energy, Electric cars, Energy, Environment, Technology, Transportation
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Parasitic energy harvesting” might sound like it is part of a Sci-Fi plot where alien beings feed off of the energy emanating from human bodies, but it is actually a means of reclaiming wasted energy.
The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2008 – A Month To Remember
05 Dec 2008 at 18:24
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Alternative Energy, Economy, Energy, Oil and natural gas, Peak Oil
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There is a growing consensus among those who follow such things, that the new high of world oil production (87.9 million barrels a day) reached last July is likely to go down in history as the all-time peak.
Vatican set to go green with huge solar panel roof
By Philip PullellaThe Vatican was set to go green on Wednesday with the activation of a new solar energy system to power several key buildings and a commitment to use renewable energy for 20 percent of its needs by 2020.
Canada’s largest wind farm to be set up in southern Manitoba
Manitoba’s NDP government and the province’s hydro utility said Monday they have signed a deal to develop what would be the largest wind farm in Canada, near St. Joseph in southern Manitoba.
Plumbing the oceans could bring limitless clean energy
The idea of tapping the ocean’s different thermal layers to generate electricity was first proposed in 1881 by French physicist Jacques d’Arsonval but didn’t receive much attention until the world oil crises of the 1970s.
