Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Discovery’s Future Car TV Show Talks Fuel

The Discovery channel is 3/4 of the way through their four part series on the car of the future, appropriately called Future Car. The most recent episode was about fuel and hit on everything from ethanol, bio-diesel, hydrogen and solar all the way to having a car powered by air. A few of the finer [...]

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Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Runnin’ with E85

I’ve had a flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) for a couple of years, a 2003 Ford Taurus. The FFV is one that can run on a mixture of ethanol (sometimes methanol, but not in my case) and gasoline, at any mixture ratio from 0% ethanol to 85% ethanol, which is what E85 is – 85% ethanol, [...]

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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

BioTown, USA

I would not have thought of Indiana as being a leader on the frontier of environmentalism. But lo and behold, Govenor Mitch Daniels declared Reynolds IN as BioTown, USA on Sept 13th 2005. The newspaper INtake published an article last week that seems almost too good to be true. Not only is it about trying [...]

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