The end of the oil age?
The Economist has an opinion piece about The end of the oil age. The soundbite is ‘ “The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” This...
View ArticleFuel cell buses – for real!
Clean Urban Transport for Europe (CUTE) is a European Union project to test three fuel cell buses each in nine cities in Europe. The project cooperates closely with Reykjavik, Iceland and with Perth,...
View ArticleEuropean fuel cell buss project
Today I went to a presentation by the Stockholm consortium (page in Swedish) which are testing fuel cell busses for public transport in Stockholm. The consortium is part of the European project Clear...
View ArticleOTEC and methanol vehicles
William Avery, the lead author of Renewable Energy from them Ocean, A guide to OTEC published an article on IOA’s web site about The influence of recent low interest rates on the estimated prices of...
View ArticleOTEC instead of LPG in Jamaica, says Al Binger
The Jamaica Gleaner reports that Professor Al Binger of the University of the West Indies is casting doubt over the viability of a LPG gas terminal which is being built on Jamaica. The director of the...
View ArticleFuel cell and battery improvements
Octane fuel cells Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have invented a fuel cell that will run on pure Octane (C8H18), emitting only water and carbon dioxide as exhaust. The fuel cell...
View ArticleSafety of hydrogen as vehicle fuel
David Gårsjö and Mårten Niklasson of Royal Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sweden, recently presented a report on Safety Issues with Hydrogen as a Vehicle Fuel (PDF 1.8 Mb)...
View ArticleDanish researcher crack hydrogen storage?
Danish researchers at the Technical University of Denmark may have taken an important step towards hydrogen based transport systems. In a news article they say that they store the hydrogen as ammonia...
View ArticleOTEC and American Samoa
American Samoa’s Power Authority (ASPA) is investigating windpower and OTEC [cached] to replace 13 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, according to Radio New Zealand. Fonoti Perelini Perelini,...
View ArticleAmmonia Fuel Network Conference – 2008
Ammonia Fuel Network Conference – 2008The Oil Drum has an overview written up by Neal Rauhauser from the Ammonia Fuel Network Conference, which was held at University of Minnesota recently. The...
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