dragonc | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2006 | alternative energy, driving, grease oil
Quoted: The owner of four McDonald's — in Amory, Aberdeen, Houston and Vernon, Ala. — recently converted his Volkswagen Beetle and the company's Ford pickup truck to run on used vegetable oil drained from his fryers.
- dragonc | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2006 | tango, transportation, alternative energy, cars
Quoted: Introducing the high performance, road-hugging, ultra-narrow Tango
For starters, it's smaller. Or rather, smallest. At 39 inches wide and 8 feet 5 inches long, it's skinnier than some motorcycles and shorter than many a living-room couch. It runs on batteries, not gas. And, if the thing ever makes it out of Spokane and into consumer production — a big if — this two-person, commuter concept car could very well alleviate air pollution, cruise past freeway congestion, shimmy through urban gridlock and actually find a parking spot.
- dragonc | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 16 2006 | transportation, alternative energy
This is the COOLEST story ever about an engineer inventor in Spokane who designed and built the Tango, my new dream car, which George Clooney traded his BMW for.
Quoted: FOR PERSPECTIVE, here's what went into a much ballyhooed pledge by the U.S. government and American motor companies to develop an 80-mile-per-gallon Supercar by 2004: a decade of political squabbling, $1.5 billion in taxpayer money, years of foot dragging by the Big Three automakers, constant engineering. In the end, Ford, General Motors and DaimlerChrysler each built a 72- to 80-miles-per-gallon, diesel-electric hybrid concept car. But the companies opted out of retooling assembly lines for mass production, instead continuing to flood the marketplace with gas-hungry SUVs they knew they could sell for higher profit. (The saga was well chronicled last year in the Chicago Tribune.) The problem wasn't engineering vision or technical know-how; it was lack of political and corporate will.
- dragonc | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 04 2006 | alternative energy, oil crisis, sustainability
I got a pass last night
Quoted: TerraPass allows consumers to easily and affordably eliminate the environmental impact of driving their cars by purchasing carbon emission offsets. Help prevent global warming. TerraPass is a global warming solution that reduces carbon dioxide air pollution. Your car puts several tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year. TerraPass takes it back out. Easy, effective, affordable.
- dragonc | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 03 2006 | hybrid, architecture, green building, alternative energy, sustainability
I want to be a beta tester for this house.
Funniest comment:
"Allowing for a totally emissions-free lifestyle"?
Are the occupents holding their breath? =)Quoted: Hybrid Technologies, the same company that had a hand in the Mullen GT, is almost done building the Hybrid Living Home. Through a bevy of alternative energy and 'smart home' features, the house is designed to be completely off the grid, and is designed to be compatible with Hybrid Technologies' Lithium-battery powered vehicles, allowing for a totally emission-free lifestyle. In what amounts to a you-want-it-they-got-it list of alternative energy technologies and eco-friendly building materials and practices, the house is an engineering and eco-space showcase. Check out this list of specs:
- dragonc | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 16 2006 | alternative energy
An Australian's quest to show America how alternative fuel is done (and possible).
Quoted: "Coolfuel is anything besides gasoline,” explains Murphy. “You can grow it, squeeze it, fry it, heat it up, or catch it. Heck, you can even eat it."
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