Monday, May 10, 2010

Gas 2.0

Gas 2.0

Bio-Hydrogen Air Ship Lifts Off Into The Future

Posted: 10 May 2010 10:04 AM PDT

One hundred years ago, television, the Internet, and cell phones were beyond comprehension for everybody but dreamers. For all the science fiction portrayals of dystopia or utopia, humanity has so far soldiered on an unpredictable, and unsustainable path. It is unlikely this planet could sustain another thousand years of mining, drilling, and pillaging of resources while humanity grows at an exponential rate. What the future will really look like is anybody’s guess.

One fanciful, futuristic idea is that of green airships powered by an algae-based bio-hydrogen. Called the Hydrogenase and looking like an unopened leaf, could this be clean transportation for the future?

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Wheego Whip Life Electric Car Could Hit Market As Soon As August

Posted: 10 May 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Tesla has beaten every major automaker and electric car startup to market by years with the first truly successful electric vehicle. Well over 1,000 Tesla Roadsters have been built and bought, and while there is some uncertainty about the brand’s next car, the Model S, Tesla has become synonymous with electric vehicles. So now, the race is on to be number two to market. Will it be the Nissan Leaf? The Chevy Volt? The Ford Transit Connect Electric?

It could be none of the above. Start up company Wheego plans to build their first batch of their “Whip Life” electric cars this summer, if the financing comes through. So what the hell is the Wheego Whip Life?

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OriginOil’s ‘Pond Scum’ Algae Biofuel Needs Less Pond, Gets More Scum

Posted: 10 May 2010 09:57 AM PDT

OriginOil Inc develops a more efficient design for growing algae for biofuel

Algae biofuel pioneer OriginOil, Inc. has come up with a new, more efficient design for growing algae for biofuel, using the kind of microalgae that blooms naturally in ponds.  With the help of lenses that channel solar radiation within layers of algae, the new system greatly reduces the amount of pond acreage needed to grow algae crops. The new system could help algae biofuel leap one obstacle to mass market commercialization, which is the vast amount of real estate and water resources required to scale up an algae growing operation.

OriginOil claims that the new system, called MultiReactor, is up to 20 times more efficient than conventional algae farming.  It looks promising so far in lab tests.  The next step involves one of those sustainable twofers we love so much: OriginOil plans to field test the system in a standard 40-foot container.  If the system lives up to its promise, practically any recycled shipping container in the world could become an ultra-compact insta-algae biofuel farm.
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