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- Report: Nissan Expects 20,000 Pre-Orders for LEAF Electric Car
- Algae Biofuel Moves to the Big City: Project Aims to Grow Algae On a High-Rise
- Scientists Use Weed Killer to Make Cheap Sugar-Based Fuel Cell
- Green Rod: 600 HP Natural Gas Powered Hot Rod
| Report: Nissan Expects 20,000 Pre-Orders for LEAF Electric Car Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:59 PM PDT
At a breakfast meeting for Nashville business executives, Carlos Tavares, Chairman of Nissan America, said he fully expects the company to have 20,000 reservations for the Nissan LEAF by the time the car goes on sale late next year. |
| Algae Biofuel Moves to the Big City: Project Aims to Grow Algae On a High-Rise Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:23 PM PDT
The demise of retail giant Filene’s Basement may have a positive effect on proponents of vertical urban farming and algae biofuels alike. Since 2007, the developers of a Filene’s site in downtown Boston have been unable to find funding to move the project forward. But now Höweler + Yoon Architecture and their partner Squared have put forth a proposal to erect a temporary vertical, modular, algae bioreactor high-rise in its place. |
| Scientists Use Weed Killer to Make Cheap Sugar-Based Fuel Cell Posted: 29 Sep 2009 01:13 PM PDT
This is one of those topics I’m just not sure what to think of… When the average person hears the term fuel cell, typically what comes to mind is something that mysteriously makes electricity from hydrogen. In reality the process isn’t all that mysterious—basically the hydrogen is split into its component parts (electrons and protons) and the protons are allowed to flow through the cell, but the electrons are forced to travel another path, which creates the current (and charges the battery or runs the motors or turns on the lights). Although the hydrogen fuel cell is the most common type of cell, you can make fuel cells that use many different things, including hydrocarbons and sugars. They all work on the same basic principal, but hydrogen fuel cells are considered superior because their only emission is water vapor and they produce lots of energy. |
| Green Rod: 600 HP Natural Gas Powered Hot Rod Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:46 AM PDT
Many of the advancements made through racing and hot rodding have been passed down to the passenger car segment. Nothing quite stimulates innovation like pushing a vehicle to its limits. AFVTech, an alternative-fuels conversion company, is building a compressed natural gas (CNG) hot rod based on the classic ‘33 Ford coupe. Equipped with a hand built LS7 engine (the same motor found in the Z06 but massaged to run on higher-octane CNG), AFVTech expects their Green Rod to make 600 horsepower. |
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