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  • Peugeot to Showcase Diesel-Electric Hybrid in Frankfurt

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    Not too long ago, Peugeot announced its intention to deliver a diesel-electric hybrid to European drivers, and said that its diesel-electric hatchback would achieve over 70mpg. Now, says DailyTech.com, “Peugeot is coming closer to the goal with the announcement of the 308 Hybrid HDi. The 308 Hybrid HDi uses a 107HP [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2007, 5:34pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Volkswagens: Now With Carbon Offsets Standard

    Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today that they have partnered with Carbonfund.org to offset one year of carbon emission from each new Volkswagen vehicle sold in the United States from September 1, 2007 through January 2, 2008. Here’s the press release. “We developed this partnership to help bring our customers to [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2007, 5:09pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Qantas Airline Launces Carbon Offset Program

    Australia’s Quantas airline announced it will launch a carbon-credit program in September to allow customers to purchase carbon credits to offset the carbon dioxide emissions of their flight. “The environmental programs we will be supporting through this initiative have been independently verified and authenticated by the commonwealth government Australian Greenhouse Office,” [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2007, 4:10pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Hydrogen-On-Demand May Power Consumer Electronics

    Hydrogen-on-demand technology may make it possible to power laptop computers and even smaller electronic devices with hydrogen fuel cells - which would run far longer than lithium ion batteries currently typical in electronic devices. TechNewsWorld.com reports: Would you like a portable power source that could run your laptop five times longer [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2007, 12:04pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Hydrogen-Powered Ford Fusion Sets Lands Speed Record

    Ford Motor Co. has has become the first carmaker to set a land-speed record for a production-based hydrogen fuel cell car. A Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 was clocked at 207.28 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah the company said. The Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 was [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2007, 11:53am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • DoE Boosts Enzyme Research for Cellulosic Ethanol

    The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement that will make available up to $33.8 million to support the development of commercially viable enzymes - a key step to enabling bio-based production of clean, renewable biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol, reports TechnologyNewsDaily.com: With a minimum 50 percent [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2007, 3:53pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Tiny Bubbles

    Ecotality LLC’s magnesium-based system for storing hydrogen in a fuel cell gets a mention at CNET’s Crave blog in this post about effort to develop a good solid-state storage method for hydrogen. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy research lab, has come up with a new formula for [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2007, 12:15pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Ford Sharpens the Edge

    H2Daily.com reports that Ford Motor Company “is currently working on a successor to its hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrid concept, the Edge,” with aerodynamic and structural modifications to the existing concept designed to make it lighter and sleeker and improve fuel efficiency and performance. Ford also is “concentrating on model [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2007, 11:59am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Renewable Energy a Job-Generation Machine

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    New research suggests that the growth of the renewable energy industry could generate hundreds of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers, reports Solar Today, a magazine published by the American Solar Energy Society in Boulder, Colorado. According to new research, the number of U.S. jobs created as a result of rapid [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2007, 12:37am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Does Your State Tax Home-Brewed Biofuel?

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    In the wake of writing this post about a North Carolina man fined for not paying his state’s motor fuels tax on some home-brewed bio-diesel he made for use in his own vehicle, I checked with the Tennessee Department of Revenue and determined that Tennesse does NOT tax home-brewed biofuels [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2007, 1:43pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Conflicting Goals

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    Are America’s environmentalists ultimately at odds with efforts to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil? Just about everyone claims the U.S. must urgently become “energy independent,” yet at the same time just about every policy that may actually serve that goal is met with environmentalist opposition. That contradiction has impeded [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2007, 11:28am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Greenpeace Goes After Teddy K. on Cape Wind Project

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    Greenpeace is airing an ad in Massachusetts in support of the Cape Wind offshore wind power project, which is opposed by that noted environmentalist legislator Sen. Ted Kennedy. This is one of the few times I am in total agreement with Greenpeace. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKEix5ssng[/youtube] Previous posts here at Ecotality about the Cape Wind [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2007, 9:25am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • 31,500 Metric Tons of Fun

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    The Pacific Research Institute looks at the carbon footprint of the Live Earth concerts: The carbon footprint of the Live Earth events weighs in at 31,500 metric tons, according to estimates of John Buckley of carbonfootprint.com, cited in the UK’s Daily Mail. Compare that to the average Briton’s carbon footprint of [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2007, 10:37pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • This is Just Stupid

    Number of comments: 4
    From the Charlotte Observer comes a story of government tax and regulatory policy working at cross purposes with official policy aimed at reducing the use of fossil fuels. Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil. So last fall the Charlotte musician and [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2007, 3:16pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Iowa Coal Plants Could Offset Clean Power

    by Maria Surma Manka of Green Options Originally Posted August 22, 2007 Two proposed coal-fired power plants in Iowa could negate the state’s efforts to cut emissions with clean, renewable power. LS Power Group wants to build a 750-megawatt (MW) plant near Waterloo, and Alliant Energy wants a 630 MW coal plant near [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2007, 3:08pm EDT
    by Green Options

  • Ethanol is Bad For You.

    Number of comments: 5
    A new study published in the journal Science last week concluded that burning of oil-based energy products combined with the planting of additional forests would be better for the environment than increasing the manufacture and use of biofuels such as ethanol. Really. The authors of the study say governments should drop biofuels [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2007, 2:40pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Not-So-Green

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    Nashville, the city where I live, has a sizable and vocal “green” community, and has for some time. Because of them, Nashville no longer has a trash-to-steam incinerator that once helped heat and cool more than three dozen downtown buildings, and it has a fairly aggressive curbside recycling program. And yet, [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2007, 2:13pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • The Oil Iditarod

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    “Environmentalists and climate-change gurus will be disheartened to note that the polar ice melt has touched off not calls for a new Kyoto confab, but rather a geopolitical Iditarod for untapped undersea sources of fossil fuel,” says Dan McGroarty in a commentary in today’s Investor’s Business Daily about the growing [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2007, 11:09am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Reduce, Reuse, Respect the Brew: Beer-Making for Environmentalists

    Number of comments: 2
    By Green Options Blogger Gavin Hudson. Originally published Aug 17, 2007. Hands up, all who enjoy a good beer from time to time! But what about the energy consumed making and transporting all of those glass bottles and (for the rest of us—who are we kidding?) aluminum cans? Mining the aluminum [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2007, 3:38pm EDT
    by Green Options

  • Nothings Sure But Death and Carbon Emissions

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    Writing at EnergyTribune.com, Robert Bryce comments on Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth: It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it. That’s my conclusion after finally sitting down to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Oscar-winning documentary that has turned [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2007, 12:49am EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • Did NASA report that 1998 was the warmest in the US?

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    Editor’s note: We welcome guest blogger Tim Lambert of Deltoid first published the following on August 12, 2007. In this piece, he takes issue in part with a piece that appeared the Ecotality Blog. Tim’s piece caused a stir as evidenced by the 130 comments to date.  Because of the corrections [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2007, 11:50pm EDT
    by Guest Blogger

  • JAccuse Robert J. Samuelson, JAccuse

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    J’Accuse Robert J. Samuelson of facilitating inaction in the fact of Peak Oil. J’Accuse Robert J. Samulson of putting this nation through your peddling of false information about options to deal with Global Warming. J’Accuse Robert J. Samuelson of putting this nation, humanity, my (and your) children at greater risk. Robert J. Samuelson, J’Accuse [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2007, 9:30pm EDT
    by A Siegel

  • Waves are Solar Power, Too

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    CNET News.com has an interesting “FAQ” story on the possibility for generating electricity from wave power. CNET says: It sounds like a can’t-miss proposition: harness the power of the ocean to generate clean, affordable, renewable electricity. Then there is the reality: staggering construction costs, unpredictable weather conditions, environmental dangers, uncertain outcomes and [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2007, 6:10pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • The Past is Prologue

    Number of comments: 3
    Washington Post, circa 1922: The world is getting hotter. Newsweek, circa 1975: The world is getting colder. NASA, 2006: 1998 was the hottest year on record in the U.S. NASA 2007: 1934 was the hottest year on record in the U.S. The forum is open… [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2007, 6:07pm EDT
    by Bill Hobbs

  • WashPost Allows Mine Executive to Peddle Falsehoods

    Number of comments: 5
    In Collapse Is Latest Fight for Coal’s Best Friend, the Washington Post gave front-page prominence to Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy which co-owns the Crandall Canyon mine where rescue workers desperately seek to rescue the trapped miners. Murray has coal in his blood and has worked his way up the [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2007, 1:00pm EDT
    by A Siegel
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