Airlines Intend to Purchase and Use Biomass Fuel For Their Fleets

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  Seven airlines have signed an agreement with Solena Fuels LLC for the future supply and use of jet fuel taken exclusively from biomass to be produced in California. Solena Fules Green Sky California biomass liquids facility in northern California will use post recycled urban and agricultural wastes to make up to 16 million gallons [...]

Tiny French Electric Plane Sets Records (video)

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This independence day, we should also take some time to remember our country’s history and give the French a little love. With that in mind, then, let’s go back to last weekend’s Paris Air Show, where French pilot Hugues Duval still has a fair bit to boast about with his latest accomplishment:  breaking the electric-powered [...]

4th of July (Should Be) End Dependence Day

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Electric carmaker Coda released a new video, cleverly titled “End Dependence Day”, just in time for the 4th of July! Of course, Gas 2.0 has been covering a world that is coming to terms with its oil addiction – with its oil dependence – since 2007, so the ideas put forward in Coda’s video are [...]

Myth No. 6: Ethanol Gets More Subsidies than Oil

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When I wrote “5 Ethanol Myths Exposed – as Crap!” a few days ago, I knew that it would upset some people (cognitive dissonance, and all that), but I was more surprised by the number of people leaving comments like this one, below, left by Steve Shurts. Your article (re. Argonne’s study) ignored the real [...]

Formula 1 Settles on Turbo V6 Engines for 2014

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The organisers behind Formula 1 have been pushing a green-tech agenda in recent years, all in a bid to remain relevant in the face of growing environmentalist pressures.  To their merit, they’ve quickly developed KERS  into a vital, race-winning technology which is being trickled down into more “real world” products from Volvo and Porsche (among [...]

Pew Environment Wants Stricter CAFE Standards (video)

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Political activist group Pew Environment (not that kind of pew-pew) is asking for Americans to push the Obama administration towards higher CAFE standards, and it’s using the video to help show Americans that higher fuel-economy standards could translate to significant cost-savings. If Americans want to lobby their representatives for higher mandated mpg numbers, though, they’ll [...]

Scion iQ EV Confirmed for US Launch in 2012

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My enthusiasm for Toyota’s little iQ has been well documented here on Gas 2.0, and its arrival on US shores in 2012 has been hotly anticipated.  Now, however, it looks like I’ll have a tough choice to make:  gas-powered, or electric! The electric iQ’s impending arrival on US shores was announced at Toyota’s US dealer [...]

5 Common Ethanol Myths Exposed – as Crap!

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Fact or Crap is a fairly popular board game that pitches itself as an “edgy” version of Trivial Pursuit.  If you like trivia and enjoy saying that something “is crap”, then, you’ll probably enjoy it … and – as regular readers have probably guessed by now – I love it!  So, when I saw the [...]