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Following the success registered by the opening of their first commercial scale algae biodiesel factory in the United States, PetroSun has recently made a deal with a Chinese firm in order to help it build a similar plant in their country.Shanghai Jun Ya Yan Technology Development Company has reached an agreement wit... |
2 October 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Codemasters is showing off the map that will be featured in its upcoming Fuel, saying that it will cover more ground than any other racing game ever launched.David Brickely, one of the developers at Codemasters, told Videogamer that the 5000 square mile map which would be the bedrock of racing game Fuel had taken fou... |
26 September 2008
03:24 GMT |
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Sapphire Energy, a San Diego company set to come up with an algae fuel for cars, has recently received financial support from Bill Gates. The company announced that it was on the verge of reaching $100 million in the next round of collecting. Prior to Gates, Arch Venture Partners, Wellcome Trust, and ... |
18 September 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Peak oil (lowering oil supplies), once ignored as a problem for a distant future, is bound to happen soon. Although this fact is far less known, copper, phosphorus and some rare chemical elements face the same impending doom. Actually, it's us who are facing it. You may not be aware of what the disappearanc... |
13 September 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) has launched its own application and GPS-based service for iPhone owners. iGas helps drivers shop for the cheapest fuel by displaying the ten nearest gas stations with the prices in low-to-high order.Oil Price Information Service specializes in supplying retail gasoline and diesel... |
27 August 2008
00:44 GMT |
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Previous racing titles from Codemasters, such as Colin McRae: DiRT or Race Driver: GRID, were considered by many truly revolutionizing, but the publishers seem to want even more. Therefore, they have signed an agreement with Asobo Studios to publish Fuel, a game that apparently will also revolutionize the genre by b... |
20 August 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Well, it doesn't really look like the car of my dreams, but it does bear some resemblance to the flying cars from 'The Jetsons', and best of all, it can run more than 100 kilometers with only one liter of fuel. Too bad it doesn't fly, though. Volkswagen's One Litre is currently the most econo... |
14 July 2008
10:31 GMT |
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The Rights and Resource Initiative warns that by 2030 yet another massive chunk of the tropical rainforest will be gone in favor of agriculture as the demand for food and biofuels increases. The organization also points out that the governments of developing countries are rather reluctant in applying any reforms at a... |
14 July 2008
09:46 GMT |
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We are living in a civilization based on oil. It is an issue that makes us extremely vulnerable. That's because of the global "Peak Oil." The oil production follows a bell curve. Its peak is the moment when oil has been 50% depleted. After the peak, oil production decreases while its price starts to go up.Many s... |
10 May 2008
06:48 GMT |
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This is exactly what plants do during the photosynthesis: stealing the hydrogen of the water using light. Hydrogen would be a very clean fuel, and a recent Penn State research has made a step further towards this direction. "This is a proof-of-concept system that is very inefficient. But ultimately, catalytic systems... |
18 February 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Well, not exactly... I mean they will not reach superluminal speeds or something, not to talk about the high acceleration capabilities or thrust. Astrium, the contractor of the construction of the BepiColumbo spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in 2013 in a mission to planet Mercury, stated that the probe will r... |
21 January 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Horse pulled vehicles dominated roads until the development of viable inner combustion engines, around 1900. The first self-propelled truck was presented in Paris in 1769. This vapor vehicle was designed for carrying heavy weaponry and traveled with 4 km (2.5 mi) per hour. But the slow speed turned it rather into a c... |
18 January 2008
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Missiles were first launched 8 centuries ago by the Chinese, during their battles with the Mongols. The first Chinese missiles were propelled by gunpowder. When arrows and spears were stuck to it, the missile made a dreadful weapon. The Mongols were so impressed, that they made their own missiles employed against the... |
17 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Angstrom Power Inc., a company based in Vancouver, Canada, together with Motorola, the US mobile manufacturer, have completed a six-months trial using a new technology that promises to reinvent the way mobile phones are powered. Angstrom developed a revolutionary mobile solution intended to replace the standard Lith... |
16 January 2008
07:59 GMT |
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We are in the middle of a dreadful global warming that could melt all the Arctic glaciers by the middle of this century. Humankind is in a struggle to find all kind of technologies reducing the emissions of greenhouse effect gases. And one of the main emitters of these gases are cars. Sun-powered cars would emit no p... |
7 January 2008
02:50 GMT |
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When technology advances made humans to attempt flying during the 19th century, motorized flight proved impossible as the engines of those times were too heavy. The German engineer Otto Lilienthal tackled the issue differently: he first decided to perfect the art of gliding through air, achieving the required ascenda... |
5 January 2008
05:48 GMT |
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We live in an oil dominated world: who gets it holds the power. That's why the western world is struggling to find new fuels that would free it from an oil-and-gas based economy, which renders them vulnerable to the blackmail of some oil-and-gas rich countries, like many in Middle East, Russia or Venezuela, wher... |
12 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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It may look like a 100-foot-long (33 m) noisy water spider coming from a science fiction movie but Proteus, a so-called Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel, is real and the latest in the navigation. It was developed for many purposes: from military uses to biological research, ocean exploration and sea rescue. "The lightwei... |
11 September 2007
03:51 GMT |
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We hope this is of a better quality than the Chinese T-shirts, but they also did it. Shanghai Pearl Hydrogen Power Source Technology Co revealed the first environmentally clean hydrogen fuel-cell bike at the 9th China International Exhibition on Gas Technology, Equipment and Applications which took place last week at... |
11 September 2007
02:43 GMT |
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Plastic is everywhere around us, and nowadays we almost drink from nothing else than plastic containers. It's so fancy to carry with you a plastic bottle and drink your water / juice / soda little by little. But while US bottled water sales are going up by an annual 9.7 %, on a market estimated at approximately ... |
16 August 2007
07:06 GMT |
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There are many advocates for the cell-powered vehicles as an environmentally friendly alternative to the standard gas and other oil-based fuel burning vehicles. But others say that the market won't embrace this variant as these vehicles would be too slow. Now, a group of Japanese students has come to prove the c... |
6 August 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Did you grow up with "E.T" and "Star Wars"? Now, the only thing that stays between you and your own flying saucer are $90,000. But unlike in the SF movie, the current flying saucer is just a car-sized hovercraft that won't take you to another planet: it will fly just up to 10 feet (3 m) high. The hovercraft is n... |
6 August 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Although not very obvious, there is a link between termites, cows and cars: bacteria. Some of these little critters are helping cows and termites digest cellulose, and some can produce electrical current and could be used in fuel cells that could power up future ecological cars.A group of researchers at Penn State Un... |
28 July 2007
04:32 GMT |
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Currently available internal combustion engines must achieve ignition in their cylinders to create combustion. Typically engines use either a spark ignition (SI) method or a compression ignition (CI) system.So far, no engine could switch from one ignition type to the other, which is what gave the current gasoline/di... |
27 July 2007
10:03 GMT |
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The Pentagon opened up a web-based system for soliciting ideas on space-based solar power and it wants as many citizens as possible to participate to the quest for potential applications of the technology, according to one of the officials leading the effort.Although the idea isn't exactly new, it's the fi... |
26 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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Internal combustion engines are now powering the vast majority of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, boats and are also used in various industrial applications. They are so widespread because they can provide high power to weight ratios together with excellent fuel energy-density.However, their efficiency is relative... |
19 July 2007
10:53 GMT |
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The race to find new alternative energy sources is fully underway and some cities and even countries are seriously involved in the issue of cleaning up the air we breathe. In order to avoid being caught by surprise by the upcoming fossil fuel shortage, some people want to switch to ecological ways of producing elect... |
17 July 2007
11:26 GMT |
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Electric cars are an environmentally friendly alternative to old internal combustion engines that use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere. For now, they have their limitations regarding the autonomy, because electricity is very hard to store in conventional batteries and because recharge stations are still rare.... |
11 July 2007
05:49 GMT |
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A new invention could make fuel cells much more reliable and less expensive, using very small crystal sizes to create cubic zirconia and greatly decreasing the temperature at which fuel cells can operate.Though fuel cells could one day replace the internal combustion engine, there are still some technological proble... |
10 July 2007
11:22 GMT |
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A new prototype robot will mimic the shape-shifting swifts, the most agile flying birds in the world and will infiltrate their flocks to spy on them with miniature cameras. There is hope that they will go unnoticed by real birds.Swifts (Apus apus) are some of the most efficient birds when it comes to active flying (... |
9 July 2007
02:49 GMT |
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This weekend, Boeing, the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, the second largest by deliveries and the second-largest defense contractor in the world, will unveil the latest creation, the 787-9 Dreamliner, an environmentally friendly aircraft it hopes will revolutionize the industry of air travel.It... |
6 July 2007
11:25 GMT |
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That's exactly what a scientist is doing: she digs for platinum. In fact, she's not even digging, she's just searching for the precious metal in the dust on the roads and she estimates many kilograms of platinum are being sprayed onto streets and roads each year.Platinum comes from an unexpected sourc... |
6 July 2007
09:47 GMT |
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Biodiesel is one of the green alternatives and US production of this fuel is at an all-time high, with new biodiesel plants being constructed in record number. However, there is one problem, the fact that this process is still costly, takes a lot of time and produces toxic byproducts.A new, revolutionary catalyst c... |
3 July 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Many people are beginning to realize that global warming is not going to go away by itself, as engines that burn gasoline emit pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, that cause global warming. The US Department of Energy is very interested in a new proposition that involves using enzyme emulations to transform chemica... |
2 July 2007
08:17 GMT |
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Hydrogen fuel-cell technology sounds almost too good to be true. You combine cheap and plentiful hydrogen and oxygen gas, the fuel cell generates electricity and the by-product is simply water. But there's something more involved.So far, the biggest downside of hydrogen-powered cars is the fact that it is very... |
2 July 2007
03:38 GMT |
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Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world's non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some companies' agendas. The search for viable biofuels is well on its way and more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "gree... |
27 June 2007
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The search for viable biofuels is well on its way, as more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "green cars" that use alternative fuel sources. Making cellulosic ethanol seems to be a good idea. Making cars run on this fuel instead of the polluting fossilized fuel is an even better on... |
26 June 2007
10:33 GMT |
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The race to find new alternative fuel sources is fully underway and some countries are seriously involved in the issue of cleaning up the air we breathe. Ethanol is a good example of such an application, diesel engines can very well run on used cooking oil and even newer sources are being taken into account, like c... |
26 June 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Hydrogen-powered cars seem to be the best solution to the problem of fossil fuels pollution. The ever increasing concerns about global warming and the future shortage of natural fuel sources have given the automotive industry and researchers from other fields alike a new impulse in developing new technologies.Though... |
25 June 2007
10:48 GMT |
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Feet, yards, inches, miles, gallons, ounces, these may mean something to some people around the world, while others struggle with online converters or, worse, software designed to convert these values, that are not reliable most of the times.How about fathoms, rods, chains, furlongs, leagues?Did anybody hear about t... |
19 June 2007
12:59 GMT |
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A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device. It produces electricity from external supplies of fuel (on the anode side) and oxidant (on the cathode side). These react in the presence of an electrolyte. Generally, the reactants flow in and reaction products flow out while the electrolyte remains in the... |
5 June 2007
15:16 GMT |
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One of the giants of the aircraft industry is considering the possibility of installing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell which would provide backup power in aircrafts in emergency situations when the main power goes offline.Boeing started a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories to examine the feasibility of us... |
31 May 2007
04:19 GMT |
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This must be the crowning achievement in the field of alternative fuels. After the electric car and the one powered by hydrogen, this new product has the potential of successfully replacing the small city cars, which cause so much pollution.It's called Air Car, it's developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy... |
29 May 2007
12:13 GMT |
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An important breakthrough has been made in the field of hydrogen-fueled cars. The new storage technology has overcome one of the biggest shortcomings of current technology by increasing the car's autonomy up to 300 miles.A team from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laborator... |
24 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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No meal is complete without a little bit of sugar. In fact, adding a little sugar even to a salty meal enhances its taste. By 2020, you could add sugar to your car to make it more efficient in producing hydrogen.This is not a sci-fi theme and even the U.S. Department of Energy's 2006 Advance Energy Initiative p... |
23 May 2007
04:30 GMT |
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What is the world's biggest internal combustion engine? Here are some clues: it's running on diesel and it's used to power the world's largest ships. The name is Wärtsilä RTA96-C and it's the largest piston engine in the world. The turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is manufactured by the... |
16 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Electric cars are an environmentally friendly alternative to old internal combustion engines that use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere. For now, they have their limitations regarding the autonomy, because electricity is very hard to store in conventional batteries. The more efficient cars are hybrids, using b... |
16 May 2007
08:38 GMT |
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The Dragster is a modified automobile, purpose built for Drag Racing. It can be a heavily modified already existent vehicle, or it can be custom made according to race specifications.Drag racing is a parallel sprint race, for a distance of 300 meters, the classical "quarter mile." These supercars can accelerate from... |
11 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Hydrogen-powered cars seem to be the best solution to the problem of fossil fuels pollution. The ever increasing concerns about global warming and the future shortage of natural fuel sources have given the automotive industry and researchers from other field alike a new impulse in developing new technologies.David ... |
10 May 2007
16:31 GMT |
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In a normal internal combustion engine, the movement of the pistons turns the crankshaft, which is linked to a camshaft that opens and closes the valves, directing the flow of air and exhaust into and out of the cylinders.A new computational model greatly increases the engine performance from one combustion cycle to... |
10 May 2007
16:16 GMT |
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