Two weeks ago I blogged about the German inventor supposedly using dead cats as feedstock in a biodiesel process. This week the amusing bio fuel story is about French nonsense. Apparently the French government does not exactly permit drivers to use vegetable oil in cars, but a large number of French citizens are doing so […]
It’s called the World Solar Challenge, and a Dutch team has won for each of the past 2 races. I know it’s not exactly the near term future of the automotive industry, but I still get a kick out of it. Especially since we do a lot of work with Australian companies. 11 teams drive […]
The Tirade: We need to achieve low oil prices, and ensure that no one country is able to control our fuel supply. We have just passed a new Energy Bill. It does not do so. What we do need to do: Drop the ANWR fight and instead break the back of OPEC, slash consumption, and […]
According to a Bloomberg article picked up by Fuel Cell Today, Toyota has announced its goal of an “all-hybrid” fleet. I think Toyota is rapidly becoming THE powerhouse in clean vehicles. Toyota Hybrid Article Toyota is the world’s second largest auto maker. It is largest producer of hybrid vehicles, and doesn’t seem like it intends […]
Talk about odd. I was really not sure what to think about this one. I guess this is for all you waste to energy guys to chase down in your spare time. This German inventor (who denies it) is supposed to have told a reporter in an article picked up by Reuters that he has […]
Cleantech.org is a a new web portal launching soon as a meeting and resource place for people like us who are looking to commercialize technologies relating to energy and the environment, whether in fuel cells, solar, environmental remediation, water purification, alternative energy, power, wind, renewables, green building, or anything else of similar bent. My company, […]
I read a lot of sites related to energy technology. A few of them really standout, so I wanted to share them with you. http://www.nrel.govThe site for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. NREL is where huge amounts of our tax dollars get spent looking at wacky new solar technologies or the latest […]
Red Herring magazine did an article on the Cleantech sector titled, “Big Oil’s Clean Hedge” that I was quoted in recently. The article heavily quotes ChevronTexaco as it is one of the few oil companies that has a policy allowing managers to talk to the press. Most of the article talks about what the oil […]
