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Human-Carrying, Solar-Powered Aircraft Ready For Maiden Flight--The Around-the-World Capable "Solar Impulse" Has Arrived!!!

Aerovironment eat your heart out.... Yesterday (11/19/09), the Solar Impulse HB-SIA taxied down the runway powered by its own engines. At the controls of the HB-SIA, Solar Impulse test pilot Markus Scherdel cautiously took to the runway under the watchful eyes of the whole team, with computers monitoring the plane’s behaviour online via the embedded telemetric devices. This inaugural day out on the runway allowed low-speed runway testing with the prototype going through a series of acc… Continue

Added by Renew_H2_Man on November 20, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Satellite Solar Power Station ("SSPS") Revisited---by the Japanese This Time Around

Harvesting solar power from space through orbiting solar farms sounds extremely interesting. Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a manufacturer of solar panels, has decided to join an AUD $25 billion Japanese project to construct a massive solar farm in space within three decades. Japan has already started working towards achieving its goal by developing a technology for 1-gigawatt solar farm, which would include four square kilometers of solar panels that will be stationed 36,000 kilometers above the e… Continue

Added by Renew_H2_Man on November 20, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Hacked E-mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics

Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — i… Continue

Added by Dmitry on November 20, 2009 at 3:11pm — No Comments

The rebirth of electric motorcycle maker, Vectrix

Over the summer Vectrix went into bankruptcy announcing that their assets would be purchased by "New Vectrix". Vectrix made the first commercial highway speed electric motorcycle and delivered their first motorcycles in 2007. However they never had enough sales to keep the company going, ran out of money, and went into bankruptcy. It's now known that GP Batteries has bought New Vectrix and the Vectrix assets apparently with the intent to restart the company.… Continue

Added by David Herron on November 20, 2009 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Happy Everyday!

Believe that you deserve good things. Open your mind to the possibility of great blessings. You are meant to be happy. The universe wants you to be happy and share that joy with everyone.

As soon as you wake up smile. This is a whole new day with many new possibilities. Today you will do new things and meet new people. But in order to receive all these blessings you have to be open to it. Believe that good things will today.

Do what you feel is right. Don't worry about bein… Continue

Added by Ken Rich on November 20, 2009 at 10:01am — No Comments

NATURAL GAS EXPLOSIONS in your HOUSE?

I have so much natural gas in my water that i have had 2 explosions in my house! Theres no way of containing it and i'm very carefull around my water. Things do happen when you least expect them to. I really dint expect company to throw A LIT CIGERATE IN MY TOILET! BANG!! I'm hopeing that someone out there can help me to harness this gas for my home use. Ken 907-373-1553 ken_stanhope@yahoo.com Continue

Added by Ken Stanhope on November 19, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The domestic solution

Nat. Gas is at best an interim strategy with its own greenhouse gas sins. We need to be looking at an abundant present source to derive our petroleum substitutes from , it is called livestock manure if we incentivize the production of methane ( natural gas ) we can substantially decrease the cost of production of ethanol as the natural gas used in the refinement phase of ethanol production is the major factor holding the price of ethanol high enough to discourage expanded or increased usage. We… Continue

Added by Kurt A. Lintelman on November 19, 2009 at 1:22pm — No Comments

The domestic solution

Nat. Gas is at best an interim strategy with its own greenhouse gas sins. We need to be looking at an abundant present source to derive our petroleum substitutes from , it is called livestock manure if we incentivize the production of methane ( natural gas ) we can substantially decrease the cost of production of ethanol as the natural gas used in the refinement phase of ethanol production is the major factor holding the price of ethanol high enough to discourage expanded or increased usage. We… Continue

Added by Kurt A. Lintelman on November 19, 2009 at 1:22pm — No Comments

Compressed Air Energy Storage with Wind Energy Resources

Despite the favorable wind resource conditions the biggest hurdle faced by the wind industry in trying to increase the amount of wind development is the current state of transmission rules that create economic penalties for intermittent (interruptible) resources such as wind. By firming the resource and providing capacity value, Compressed Air Energy Storage (“CAES”) may be able to mitigate many transmission related costs that are currently seen as onerous for wind development. The biggest inst… Continue

Added by Laurence W. Tobin on November 19, 2009 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Compressed Air Energy Storage with Wind Energy Resources

Despite the favorable wind resource conditions the biggest hurdle faced by the wind industry in trying to increase the amount of wind development is the current state of transmission rules that create economic penalties for intermittent (interruptible) resources such as wind. By firming the resource and providing capacity value, Compressed Air Energy Storage (“CAES”) may be able to mitigate many transmission related costs that are currently seen as onerous for wind development. The biggest inst… Continue

Added by Laurence W. Tobin on November 19, 2009 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Please pass this on

Barry Mauldin P. O. Box 338 Centre, AL 35960 bame46@yahoo.com To whom it may concern: (And it concerns everyone) YES YOU CAN My ancestors were Cherokee and I’m very proud of this the reason I’m writing this letter is being a Cherokee I’m very concerned about Elohi (Mother Earth) I live in Cherokee County Alabama is a rural area with a lot of good hard working people trying to make ends meet. Almost all of their total family incomes are under $40,000.00 a year and many are a lot less. I’m sen… Continue

Added by Barry on November 19, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Please pass this on

Barry Mauldin P. O. Box 338 Centre, AL 35960 bame46@yahoo.com To whom it may concern: (And it concerns everyone) YES YOU CAN My ancestors were Cherokee and I’m very proud of this the reason I’m writing this letter is being a Cherokee I’m very concerned about Elohi (Mother Earth) I live in Cherokee County Alabama is a rural area with a lot of good hard working people trying to make ends meet. Almost all of their total family incomes are under $40,000.00 a year and many are a lot less. I’m sen… Continue

Added by Barry on November 19, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

My car runs on propane now!!

I recently had my BMW converted to run on propane as well as gasoline. I pay $2.24 per gallon of propane and fill up at the same place where I fill the canister for my gas grill. The horsepower on the car increased slightly (propane is about 100 octane) and the gas mileage is about 93% of gasoline mileage. The car runs flawlessly and I am no longer sending my money to the Middle-East to fund Terrorism!! I also am having my home converted from oil to natural gas. I encourage others to do the same… Continue

Added by William McKelvey on November 19, 2009 at 11:29am — 1 Comment

Federal Representatives aren't listening.

I have written my senators and my representative regarding Natural Gas, trying to raise awareness of the product and to get Natural Gas filling stations into the state so we can start driving CNG cars. Without fail, all I get is chest thumping blather about how they are working so hard on solar and wind power projects. Well, that is good for electricity but not so effective for cars and trucks. They seem to lump all this "energy stuff" into one bucket and feel that they are doing enough by talk… Continue

Added by Jay Walser on November 19, 2009 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

may i restress the point of nat'l gas in trucks/18 wheelers"""please hear this

without personal contact with T Boone Pickens,,,his Natl gas in 18 wheelers is to displace fossil fuels and much polution of diesel engines; with nat;'l gas engines,,,for powering "all 18 wheelers" this conversion,,,that must be mandated by dongress, as it requires a new nat'l gas engine in "all trucks" and that's big money for the new disign and new truck.. but,,,,,,the benefits are two fold,,,,, a) displaces many, many barrels of oil that has make the diesel available for the trucks;;; and de… Continue

Added by joe h. brown on November 18, 2009 at 9:18pm — 2 Comments

Report: Top 12 Potentially Disruptive Transport Technologies

Susan Kraemer, Gas2.org, November 18th, 2009 A new analysis from Accenture, Betting on Science; Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels, identifies 12 technologies that have the potential to be gamechangers, disrupting fossil fuel demand and reversing course on the disastrous climate changing trajectory that we are on. And, the report says, they could do it within five years. But rather than simply cheering on these exciting developments, Accenture goes a step further and does a complete an… Continue

Added by W. Dan Chance on November 18, 2009 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

Think You Can Drive This New Mercedes?

Stylish doors. .. yeah!

Looks great doesn't it?

What about this?

… Continue

Added by W. Dan Chance on November 18, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Th!nk Chooses Indiana as Site of U.S. Electric Car Factory

Nick Chambers, Editor, Gas2.org, November 18th, 2009 Norwegian electric car maker, Th!nk, has seen some rough financial patches as of late—having gone through a bankruptcy and restructuring—but they seem to be clawing their way back to relevance these days. With a long wait list and more demand for the Th!nk City than they can meet in Europe, think has once again turned their eyes on the U.S. market.

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Added by W. Dan Chance on November 18, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Holiday Recess

Army, The holidays are coming up and that means there is an opportunity for us to keep the momentum building toward the adoption of the NAT GAS Act (H.R. 1835 and S. 1408). Members of Congress will be home for Thanksgiving week; and then will be home again for the Christmas/New Year holidays. This is an excellent opportunity for you to e-mail, call, or drop in to your Member’s District O… Continue

Added by Geoff Bailey on November 18, 2009 at 3:26pm — No Comments

Instead of taking advantage of our winds and the availability of natural gas - we might get 4000 tons of garbage a day.

Nevadans Against Garbage needs financial help. And here is why: (please visit our blog for more information at: www.nevadansagainstgarbage.com). Humboldt County, NV has let a special use permit so Recology/NorCal can import 8,000,000 pounds of California garbage a day for 95 years, into a landfill they want to construct west of Winnemucca, NV, Instead of embracing alternative green energy industries into the county. Wind energy would be a viabl… Continue

Added by Fred Baryol on November 18, 2009 at 2:23pm — No Comments

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Human-Carrying, Solar-Powered Aircraft Ready For Maiden Flight--The Around-the-World Capable "Solar Impulse" Has Arrived!!!

Satellite Solar Power Station ("SSPS") Revisited---by the Japanese This Time Around

Hacked E-mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics

The rebirth of electric motorcycle maker, Vectrix

Happy Everyday!

NATURAL GAS EXPLOSIONS in your HOUSE?

The domestic solution

The domestic solution

Compressed Air Energy Storage with Wind Energy Resources

Compressed Air Energy Storage with Wind Energy Resources

Please pass this on

Please pass this on

My car runs on propane now!!

Federal Representatives aren't listening.

may i restress the point of nat'l gas in trucks/18 wheelers"""please hear this

Report: Top 12 Potentially Disruptive Transport Technologies

Think You Can Drive This New Mercedes?

Th!nk Chooses Indiana as Site of U.S. Electric Car Factory

Holiday Recess

Instead of taking advantage of our winds and the availability of natural gas - we might get 4000 tons of garbage a day.

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