Air Force facility in Ohio to aid fuel research

Construction is starting on a new $2.5 million facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that will allow the military to create its own fuel for research aimed at producing alternatives for powering military aircraft.

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Airlines push for homegrown jet fuel

With the price of oil still above $100 a barrel, everything from wood chips to chicken fat is being scrutinized as an alternative to traditional fuel. But when it comes to airplanes, finding the right mix poses a special challenge.

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The city of Stockholm shoots thousands of wild rabbits spread across the green spaces of the Swedish capital and sends their bodies to be burned as heating fuel, a practice which has enraged animal rights groups.

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Remember back in 2001 when BP went "Beyond Petroleum"? It was a brilliant marketing campaign, but it had less to do with changing the company's business model than positioning Lord John Browne as the Teflon oil executive.

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A "green racing car" powered by chocolate and steered by carrots will line up on a Formula 3 grid for the first time next month.

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Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and Fun with Car Math

Recently, Chevy announced its upcoming Volt, a hybrid-electric vehicle which it claims gets an equivalent of 230 mpg, according to a yet-to-be-finalized EPA formula for estimating fuel efficiency of hybrid vehicles.

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Officials with the U.S. Dept.

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Sacramento is now a revolutionary outpost in the fight for cleaner fuels.

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A startup based in Toledo, Ohio, has developed a way to make large, flexible solar panels using a roll-to-roll manufacturing technique.

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Forget ethanol, President Obama. These ten superplants will do everything from cleansing soil to providing a far better biofuel than ethanol. Iowans, plant duckweed instead of corn!

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Rather than pollute the atmosphere by venting or flaring the natural gas that comes out of oil wells, a new technology would turn it into gasoline or other products

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An Ontario company has announced that it has successfully produced significant amounts of renewable gasoline and diesel from biomass at its research facility.

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The one-thirtieth of an ounce of the zinc-oxide crystal has enough surface area to cover an entire football field.

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President Obama marked Earth Day Wednesday by announcing a new initiative to lease federal waters for the purpose of generating electricity from wind and ocean currents.

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Google's goal in energy is twofold: First, it wants to make your home energy-smart, so that appliances know when to power up and power down, and heating and cooling systems respond automatically to changes in the price of energy.

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Logistics doesn't get bigger than Wal-Mart (except maybe the U.S. Military), and so anything they can do to reduce even by a few % is going to have a pretty big impact when measured in barrels of oil or tons of CO2.

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What's wrong with the US Government's Electric Car Solution?

Why are we pursuing yet another fuel source, electricity; that could lead us right into the same situations that oil did?

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In a bid to put to rest the food versus fuel debate two scientists from NASA, Jelte Rozema and Timothy Flowers, have pointed out in an article for Science magazine that the work of University of Arizona plant biologist Robert Glenn should be seriously considered.

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Q: I recently had my 2008 Acura TSX in for service and asked the service advisor to use synthetic oil this time. He said that once I switch to synthetic, I can't go back to regular oil. Everything I have read says the synthetics are fully compatible with regular oil.

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OPEC Cutting Production to Raise Prices? America's Answer

In a previous article, this writer talked about how gas prices came down, at least partially, because Americans started conserving gas. One of the major points of the article was the amount of oil America saved. When gas prices spiked in 2008, the U.S.

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In the United States, T. Boone Pickens, the Oklahoma oil tycoon who leased hundreds of thousands of acres in West Texas for a giant wind farm, has now delayed the project.

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As the leaders of the Detroit three auto companies faced withering questioning in Washington DC because of their inability to articulate a coherent plan for putting a government hand out to work one foreign automaker was carefully unreeling his precise prescription for the future …

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In summary, the reasons cited by the group for eliminating the subsidies are well publicized: the environmental benefits of corn ethanol are not what they are claimed to be; their effect on increased food prices is genuine (if open to debate to its extent); it threatens soil, wil …

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A solution to the world's energy problems may lie in a Chinese mushroom growing in Novozymes A/S laboratories.

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DETROIT — A proposed $25 billion federal loan program to help retool the American auto industry would speed the development of electric cars and other alternative-fuel vehicles, a Chrysler executive said Wednesday.

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Ford finally seems to do something right by creating a nifty 5-seat, 65-mpg car and they refuse to sell it in America "for business reasons". Okay, so it runs on diesel. Do the math...you'd buy it versus what you now have, wouldn't you?

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