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Energy-Saving Powder May Allow Exploitation of Unused Reserves of Natural Gas

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It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces might be helping to [...]

VW shows 170 mpg tandem diesel hybrid two-seater

Volkswagen rocked the automotive world at a lunchtime press conference on the first day of the Frankfurt Motor Show

Gasoline-diesel ‘Cocktail’: A Potent Recipe For Cleaner, More Efficient Engines

“For a small engine to even approach these massive engine efficiencies is remarkable,” Reitz says. “Even more striking, the blending strategy could also be applied to automotive gasoline engines, which usually average a much lower 25 percent thermal efficiency. Here, the potential for fuel economy improvement would even be larger than in diesel truck engines.”

Simple Device Which Uses Electrical Field Could Boost Gas Efficiency Up To 20%

With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically [...]

Bugs in the tank

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Fuel’s future is in designing, not refining
LAST month, your columnist raved about the new generation of lean, clean diesel cars arriving belatedly in America (“Diesel’s second coming”, April 4th 2008), but wondered where they might find their fuel. With oil pushing $120 a barrel, the diesel’s fuel-sipping charms—it delivers about [...]