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A few automotive thoughts, if I may… Ford’s newest vehicle, to be on the market later this year, is the C-Max: Aside from the atrocious name — are they now measuring corporate success by the number of cheap shots people take at their product names? — this looks like a winner in the ye olde marketplace. Somewhat . . . → Read More: Driving the future Frito-Lay buying 100 more Smith Electric Vehicle trucks in 2012; natural gas coming for tractor fleet: PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division will purchase 100 Newton Series 2000 all-electric commercial vehicles in 2012 from Smith Electric Vehicles, bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. Over the past two years, 176 Smith Electric Vehicles . . . → Read More: Fleets and EVs Bill Chameides, whose work is always worth your time, has an excellent piece up at The Green Grok, The Carbon Footprint of Oil Sands Oil: For years, I (and many of my colleagues) most often turned to work by Alexander Farrell and Adam Brandt (then both of the University of California, Berkeley) that was published in 2006 . . . → Read More: Footprints, always the footprints Vehicle Technologies Program: Fact #712: January 30, 2012 Top Vehicles in the U.S., 2011: See the page for the data. Do I really have to launch into the whole argument about how utterly absurd it is for Americans to be buying this mix of vehicles in 2011, or what that says about the astonishing level of RDS (reality . . . → Read More: Top selling vehicles in the US If you’re at all plugged into the enviro news via Twitter, RSS feeds, or even blogs (how quaint!), you probably know that the hot news is that President Obama is set to reject the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. As with almost anything that’s triggered this much emotion and clash of wills (or . . . → Read More: Keystone XL is a lesson waiting to be learned If you could wave your handy dandy magic wand and create a single technological breakthrough that would make a huge impact on our intertwined climate and energy challenges, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something better than a killer battery. Find a way to make a battery pack that greatly exceeds the range . . . → Read More: Yet another battery breakthrough If you’re itching for a new example of, “this sounds great, but…”, then I’ve got a real winner we can ponder, as described in the article, Carbon dioxide super-scubber? Potential good news in global warming fight.: Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the . . . → Read More: Scrubbing CO2  Comments are closed  Climate change, Coal, Geoengineering, Natural gas, Oil, Public policy, Uncategorized OK, now this is intriguing, even if the article is from April(!?)… New Car Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry: researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid . . . → Read More: The Wave Disk Generator If anyone here needed further proof that some days it’s not worth chewing through the leather restraints, we have a new Science paper of more than passing interest. A third effect of anthropogenic aerosols on the climate: In a paper published in the journal Science, Natalie Mahowald at Cornell University reports on a third effect of . . . → Read More: Do anthropogenic aerosols play an even bigger role? The International Energy Agency released their report, World Energy Outlook 2001, this morning. The full press release [emphasis added]: The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future which would have far-reaching consequences, IEA warns in its latest World Energy Outlook See Related Publication or Event 09 November 2011 London — Without a bold change of policy direction, the . . . → Read More: Doc alert: World Energy Outlook 2011 2 comments - (Comments are closed) By the numbers, Climate change, Coal, Natural gas, Oil, Renewable energy, Uncategorized |
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