Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
BeUtilityFree Puts The Means Of Renewable EnergyProduction Into The Hands Of The People.
I’ve been adding articles to this site from time to time and I think I ought to make a plug for the company I work for, which is working on making renewable energy available to everyone. Hey, Mark okayed it, so plugging your company must be cool! ; ) Shameless Plug for BeUtilityFree Take the [...]
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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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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The White House Talks Green… With a Few Notable Exceptions
In his recent State of the Union address, George W Bush talked about, and seemed to support, many of the most promising areas of renewable energy. With the current global political climate, and our war in Iraq (that seems to be becoming more about oil every day), it is no surprise that the White House [...]
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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, October 11th, 2006
Biobutanol is the Next Big Thing in Renewable Energy
As excited as I am about Biodiesel and SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) as fuel for vehicles, I don’t have a diesel car and don’t see one in my near future. If you are like me there is new hope: Biobutanol. Biobutanol is a form of alcohol that can replace gasoline. It is similar to ethanol [...]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Willie Nelson is into Biodiesel… who knew?
Not only is Willie Nelson into Biodiesel, but he has an entire webiste and business devoted to it. One of their selling points is that biodiesel is fuel that is a fully renewable enrgy source, it is grown right here in America, and it supports our farmers. I think this is a great way of [...]
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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 [...]
