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Beautiful, Safe, Affordable–And It Gets 100 Mpg: X PRIZE Picks Next Round of Automotive Contestants
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Contest aims to award $10-million prize to the best new automotive design, and gives a glimpse of what the energy-efficient car of the future may look like–and what will power it
NEW YORK—The Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and other conventional sports cars were bumped from the showroom of the Manhattan Classic Car Club today in [...]
Trashing existing fuel sources could cut global emissions by 80%
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If there’s one thing there seems to be an endless supply of, it’s garbage. The idea of turning the trash that currently ends up in landfill into a fuel to combat the growing energy crisis and tackle carbon emissions isn’t new. Companies like Waste2tricity in the UK are already looking to convert waste [...]
‘Ice That Burns’ May Yield Clean, Sustainable Bridge To Global Energy Future
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In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government researchers are reporting that these so-called “gas hydrates,” a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames at the touch [...]
Biofuel Development Shifting From Soil To Sea, Specifically To Marine Algae
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Bell-bottoms… Designer jeans… Disco… Big hair… Gas shortages. Some icons of the 1970s are emblazoned in the memories of those old enough to remember. A few styles, to the dismay of many, have come back in vogue—oil-related crises among them. Broad anxiety over fuel manifested again in 2008, illuminating the [...]
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