Posts Tagged ‘Alternitve Fuel’

Turning Dead Trees Into Fuel

Thursday, September 17th, 2009


Folks who live near the Rockies might be sad that their trees have a habit of dying, but that doesn’t mean that they can turn them into something useful. That’s right, people in the Rockie mountain area have been turning the remains of dead trees into clean, environmentally friendly bio-diesel. Now this is sorta like an old dog new tricks kinda deal. You see bio-diesel has been around for over 20 years. But the people of Colorado have only been making their version of the product for only a year now.
In fact the product has even caught the eye of the Toledo energy company, who wants to turn all the dead trees in the area into bio diesel. Now there is a silver lining to this, it would be pretty cool getting rid of all those dead trees, plus they are being used wisely. But the only problem with this is the fact that it would take more energy to use this process then just pumping oil out of the ground. So until a more efficient way comes forth, we could be pumping oil for a long time.

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Algae Oil And The US Navy

Monday, September 14th, 2009


Alright I’m not going to lie, The united states navy and algae really don’t go together, but after you realize that the Navy is researching alternative fuels it all comes together. You see the Navy is trying to develop a new type of oil to help power their cars and ships, They call this algae oil.

Now this research is really about the Us putting alternative fuel mandates on the navy, but they are sure that this is about creating better cleaner fuels for the military use. Plus who doesn’t want the government working to help create new fuels. I mean something like this can only help the situation that the world is in.

But what exactly is this algae oil? well, the navy hopes that it will be a substitute for regular oil, They also believe that it will behave just like regular oil. So in reality, its just regular oil that isn’t from the ground. But who knows, maybe the navy could be onto something and we could be on step away from filling our cars with oil from a plant.

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The Car Of Tommorow

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The honda FCX clarity, the name doesn’t really ring a bell does it? It might be  because Hondas new alternitve fuel powerd car is only available in californa. But putting this aside, I belive that the Claritty is the one of the worlds most importaint car ever invented sicne the car was.

This isn’t because it has space thrusters, or a warp drive, or something crazy that you might find on other alterntive powerd cars. No, i Belive that the clarity is importaint because it looks and runs like a car.Now this might not seem like anything importaint, but for a car that runs on hydrogen its a big deal. Just think about all of the other alternitve fuel cars. Most are plugings that take forever to charge and take forever to go anywhere. This is where the Clarity shines. when ever you run out of gas, you just pull up to the Hydrogen filling staion, and fill the car up like you would with a gas powered one.

Now thats  a big deal for everone who supports alternitve fuels, and drives. You see, we have built our lives around the car as we know it. And sadly we will run out of gasoline one day, so we need something else to get us from point a to point b. And if this replacement is something that can only go 40 miles and takes a day to charge, we would have gone backwords. That is why the clarity is so improtanit, not because its the car of tommorow, but becasue its just like the car of today.

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