Not a heck of a lot of knowledge is available yet on the Zero Rally Africa, but since there’s about 14 months to go before the thing kicks off, that isn’t really a problem. What we do know about the rally is that it’s a 4,000 km, ten-day jaunt up from Cape Town through South Africa, Namibia and soon…
21
Oct
Third Planet Energy’s booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo caught my eye. Which is precisely what the folks there intended. In fact, Third Planet Energy’s whole goal is to allow you to catch other people’s eyes, through the use of chrome emblems that will upgrade your car’s back end to ide…
13
Sep
Some weeks ago we posted an commentary about a German university comparing the fumes produced from both a diesel-powered engine and one fuelled by Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) which showed that diesel fumes were increasingly dangerous. In the end, however, the study affirmed that it depend…
12
Sep
It is too early to know for certain what affect the growing of plants for biofuels will have on the agricultural industry. While the short-term monetary gains may well be appealing, questions abound as to what will happen with soil quality and its energy needs. Researchers at Iowa State are …
25
Aug
“We believe what we’ve found is not far from the silver bullet, and our demonstration plant will be about showing that. We have the organism folks have dreamt of — it eats nearly anything and it makes ethanol really quickly.” - Hamish Curran TMO Renewables CEO
The organism that Curran is s…
21
Aug
“Many citizens vanish when they screw up. I wish to ‘man up’ before that community with my story.”
This is how TDIClub forum member DuluthRooster starts a post explaining how he ran a Jetta Wagon on waste vegetable oil for about 50,000 miles but next, sadly, had a terribly negative experi…
31
Jul
Some cars that run on vegetable oil leave behind a smell of a fish & chips shop but one might think that the exhaust gases can’t be too good for our health. In theory yes, but proof has arrived from the Bayerische Institut für Angewandte Umweltforschung und -technik (Bavarian Institute fo…
