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- Clean Green Breeze in Santa Monica
- Biofuel Oasis: Empowering Alternative Fuel Use
- Q & A With OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry
- Shaquille O’Neal Helps to Debut the World’s First E-Fuel MicroFueler
- Clean Fuels Foundation Launches Florida FFV Awareness Project
- BMW Electric i-Project City Car… Due 2012
| Clean Green Breeze in Santa Monica Posted: 30 Jul 2009 03:38 PM PDT
Editor’s Note: This is the first post from Nevres Cefo, author of Two Cents Per Mile: Will President Obama Make it Happen with the Stroke of a Pen? For more information, please visit his website. I am thrilled, not just about all of the current green action, activism, and blogging…but also the real life examples of people living clean and green. I was in Santa Monica and L.A. while researching for my book and I was overjoyed at the innovation and enthusiasm of all the 100% Electric Vehicle owners and users I met. The city has solar powered carports for all-electric cars, charging garages for government fleets, photovoltaic charging stations, free charging stations in prime parking locations at shopping malls, and the cleanest garages I have ever seen…no oil stains, no smell, no sound while cars are pulling out! |
| Biofuel Oasis: Empowering Alternative Fuel Use Posted: 30 Jul 2009 02:53 PM PDT
Running your car on biodiesel fuel is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. BioFuel Oasis, a women's collective/owned business in Berkeley, offers not only fuel, but a level of expertise and service you haven't experienced in a fuel transaction in years. Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, normally from soybeans. You can grow the beans to produce the oil, but the most environmentally conscious way is to use recycled oil from restaurants. Because diesel engines have much higher compression than gas engines, they can burn a range of fuels, including the stuff they use to cook French fries. |
| Q & A With OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry Posted: 30 Jul 2009 10:06 AM PDT This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post. Earlier this week we covered the announcement that OriginOil had created a Live Extraction process for converting algae to oil coined, ‘milking’. This is just one of several big breakthroughs the company has had during the past year so I decided to catch up with CEO Riggs Eckelberry to get his take on algae to fuel. Q: Due to this breakthrough technology (Live Extraction) and some of the others you’ve recently announced, how soon do you think you’ll be able to use this technology to produce algal fuels at a commercial scale? A: Due to the lag in actually building large scale projects, the ability will come long before the fact. Also, we won't build or produce ourselves, but instead we will provide technology and devices, and help design, build and maintain these sites. The next step is a pilot plant which could occur as early as next year. |
| Shaquille O’Neal Helps to Debut the World’s First E-Fuel MicroFueler Posted: 30 Jul 2009 01:00 AM PDT
Who needs a gas station to fill your tank with ethanol? Not you. GreenHouse has just announced the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into ethanol. The first installation of the E-Fuel MicroFueler was in the home of none other than basketball great Shaquille O’Neal, who lives in Pacific Palisades a subdivision in LA. The E-Fuel MicroFueler coverts the organic waste into ethanol for about two-thirds the cost of gasoline. The final product is E100 (100 percent ethanol) which burns cleaner emitting significantly less emissions into the air. The only vehicles designed to run on E100 are the IndyCars which in 2007 became the first motorsports league to sanction a renewable fuel. |
| Clean Fuels Foundation Launches Florida FFV Awareness Project Posted: 29 Jul 2009 11:24 PM PDT
A national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) was officially launched in Orlando, Florida today at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit. The project is a cooperative effort between key Florida state government interests, gasoline/E85 distributors, the ethanol industry, and several nonprofit environmental and energy advocacy groups. Ironically, Florida has one of the largest contingencies of FFVs in the country. Out of the current 8 million FFVs on the road, 500,000 are Florida residents. I know most of you assume they are in the Midwest but can you say snowbirds? Like many other states announcing initiatives to spur the development of alternative fuels such as ethanol, Florida is no different. At the helm of this initiative is Charles Bronson, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. |
| BMW Electric i-Project City Car… Due 2012 Posted: 29 Jul 2009 06:53 PM PDT
BMW’s new City EV is to be a four seater that is even shorter than the other i-Project BMW offering; the electric Mini Cooper. That’s hard to imagine from this picture; this car looks more sedan sized. Electricity will be stored in a water-cooled lithium-ion battery pack that is expected to provide a 100-mile range. Compared with most companies aiming at 2010 electric vehicle deliveries (at least in their press releases!) 2012 is a comparatively sedate delivery schedule. This is despite having produced a series of perfectly functional BMW electric cars going way back…that never made it to mass production. For the 1972 Olympic games held in Munich, for example - BMW provided a fleet of bright orange electric cars: |
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