Rent Green: Will Electric And Hybrid Car Rentals Take-off?
Higher taxes, shrinking paychecks and increasing gas prices have many consumers weighing the decision of whether to take a vacation or opt for a staycation. Many are looking at various means of...
View ArticleResearch Uses Mirrors To Make Solar Energy Cost Competitive
Could mirrors be the next big breakthrough in the push to make solar power a competitive player on the alternative energy sources field? Virginia Tech Professor Ranga Pitchumani believes the...
View ArticleElectric Vehicles Cut Costs For City
Proponents of electric vehicles claim the technology is the future of transportation, but many skeptics remain unconvinced. However, electric vehicles may have found a champion in Nanaimo’s fleet...
View ArticleEWICON Bladeless Wind Turbine Generates Electricity Using Charged Water Droplets
Most agree wind energy is one of the best clean energy sources, but it is not without its downsides. Two points of contention by its opponents is it is too high maintenance and a threat to birds that...
View ArticleVertical-Axis Wind-Turbines Might Increase Wind Power Output
To earn a place as a viable alternative fuel, wind power must become cheaper and easier to maintain. John Dabiri, a Caltech professor, hopes to achieve those goals and more: quieter wind turbines that...
View ArticleHybrid Cars List: 5 Favorite Alternative Energy Cars of 2013
Hybrid Cars just released their 2013 list of favorite alternative energy cars, and it is a sweet list composed of a nice mix of all electric, plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles. Which models made the...
View ArticleAlgae To Crude Oil: Minutes In The Lab Versus Millions Of Years In Nature
Move over, Mother Nature – researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have figured out how to compress millions of years of chemical processing into a few minutes to produce crude...
View ArticleElectric-Car Range Extenders: Hydrogen Fuel Cells? French Tests Start Soon
Overcoming range limitation, or range anxiety as it is often called, is an essential step for the electric vehicle industry. Consumer and commercial acceptance of electric vehicles will be more...
View ArticleIs The Price Tag Too High For America’s Green Navy?
If you think the price of a gallon of gasoline for your family car is too high, how do you feel about paying an average of $26 per gallon to fuel our Navy fleet? While the biofuels industry claims the...
View ArticleNew Hydrogen Fuel Production Process Discovered By French Researchers
Is hydrogen fuel a clean, renewable alternative energy source? Automakers are debuting more vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells, but these fuel cells are costly and not as energy efficient as some other...
View ArticleThe Rawlemon Project: A Beautiful Way To Harvest Solar Energy
“Harvesting solar energy is cheap and sustainable, but one thing it requires more than anything else is space (more than direct sunlight, even). For example, to generate an average of around 12kW of...
View ArticleEV Transformers? Would You Buy An Electric Amphibious Car?
“In the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, there have been a few attempts to use electric cars for emergency power – but now this newest concept takes things a step...
View ArticleFossil Fuels Take A Beating As Clean Energy Costs Drop
“Spending on renewables declined 14 percent to $214 billion last year. The amount of new capacity fell at a slower rate, 8 percent, to about 81 gigawatts, according to a report today from the Frankfurt...
View ArticleIs Stanford University’s Start.Home The Green Home Of Tomorrow?
“The home-building industry represents a ripe opportunity for green innovation, and Stanford’s Start.Home hits the mark with a clever interdisciplinary blend of civil engineering, computer science and...
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