What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction.
Things have changed a lot since I was driving across the country, or occasionally flying to a new destination and renting a car. I knew there’d be a gas station up ahead, and had a pretty good idea what prices would be when I stopped at the pump. My, how things have changed. There are [...]
A Boeing 747 jet, using 20 percent biofuel in one engine, is expected to take off from London’s Heathrow Airport and fly to Amsterdam in late February. The test flight will be without passengers and is part of a research project being conducted by the airline, Boeing and the maker of the engine, GE Aviation. [...]
Run your car on compressed air? Drivers in Europe may be doing just that by the end of the year with the air car, according to a report from the BBC… [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ov4t1P9bdGw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Like to know more about the air car? Here’s their website.
What do they do with chocolate products they can’t sell? Off to the landfill to decompose and create methane. Wish they could just send it to me. Two young Britons, Andy Pag and John Grimshaw, have traveled more than 4,000 miles across the Sahara using such chocolate as fuel. The two decided to prove the [...]
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Lvb53l_Nfys" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] All that green pond scum I used to avoid could well produce enough fuel to satisfy all the energy needs in the United States. That’s a pretty far out statement, but Glen Kertz, CEO of Valcent Products made it very clear that a process of growing algae vertically is [...]
The highly touted “closed loop” ethanol plant in Nebraska shut its doors last week and filed for bankruptcy. E3 BioFuels used biogas generated from cattle manure, provided by a nearby feedlot containing 25,000 head of feeder cattle. Distillers grain, a byproduct of ethanol production, was fed to the cattle and the process started all over [...]
The U.S. Senate has passed the new energy bill, which now goes back to the House for final approval before going to the president for his signature. But, as they say, there’s no free lunch. While the legislation includes the landmark increase in fuel-economy standards for vehicles and a huge boost for alternative fuels, legislators [...]
The strange part of this story is, the plant never went into operation. As a matter of fact, it’s still under construction. Farmers who invested in the project have lost their money since the Chapter 11 filing creates a federal injunction prohibiting creditors from taking action against the company, Central Illinois Energy. It’s taken five [...]
