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Alternative Energy, Transportation, and Fuels

 

Alternative Energy

Solar Power Program Gains Favor in Ashland.

This co-op solar purchasing programs lets residences purchase a solar panels and get credit on their electric bill. Read more of this Mail Tribune article.

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080730/NEWS/807300316/-1/rss01

 

The Island in the Wind, A Danish Community’s Victory Over Carbon Emissions. A 8-page article in the New Yorker. How ordinary, conventional people can change their community by changing their ideas and behaviors regarding conventional energy use, towards more renewable forms. This Danish community also created the 2,000 Watt Society.

[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_kolbert]

 

Go here [http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid231.php] to view a lecture series by Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, sponsored by Mineral Acquisition Partners Inc. (MAP), for the purpose of sustainable energy education.

 

Green Industry Hub Rises from Rust Belt Ruins. “Can going green, that is, become a new American way to prosper, even confer a competitive edge in the global economy?”

[http://www.energybulletin.net/44157.html]

 

 

Alternative Transportation

Electric Wheels – company in Salem, OR that sells 100% electric cars, trucks, bikes, scooters, and motorcycles. [http://www.electricwheelsinc.com/]

OSU’s Solar-Powered Car Takes Off.

[http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/07/01/news/top_story/6aaa01_solarcar.txt]

 

WestStart-CALSTART (http://www.calstart.org/) is a non-profit organization that works with the public and private sectors to develop advanced transportation technologies and foster companies that will help clean the air, lessen our dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, and create jobs.

 

CleanMPG.com is a website dedicated to “hypermiling,” a term used to describe the techniques of people who can exceed the EPA average fuel rating of their factory cars.

"0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds in an electric car!" See Newsweek’s article on Tesla Motors’ two-seat Hot Rod. [http://www.newsweek.com/id/55405]

 

An energy-efficient Hummer? 100 mpg 1960 Lincoln Continental? It’s not a tailpipe dream; check out Clive Thompson’s, Motorhead-Messiah website [http://www.fastcompany.com/welcome.html?aw=600&ah=600article at fastcompany.com]

 

Green Car Congress has great articles relating to the latest developments in the alternative fuel and hybrid motor industry. [http://www.greencarcongress.com/]

 

A High-Speed Future for California, Fresno Bee article. Rail proposal is antidote for rising gas prices, dirty air, stagnant economy.

[http://www.fresnobee.com/274/story/712488.html]

 

Hybridfest is an annual show that takes place in Madison Wisconsin and showcases high mileage, hybrid vehicles. [http://www.hybridfest.com/]

 

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s transportation page features the Tour de Sol, an annual race and expo that highlights efficient vehicles. [http://www.nesea.org/transportation/links.html]

 

High school kids develop an electric vehicle: http://www.penn-partners.org/evteam/attack.htm

 

How quickly can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to transportation? E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs [http://www.e2.org/ext/jsp/controller?docId=14010]

Compressed air car: http://www.theaircar.com/

Alternative Fuels

 

Biofuels and the Rise of Nationalistic Environmentalism. An outstanding article on agrofuels and food supplies. [http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3992]

 

Vertigro – Algae for biofuel. Watch this video of a demonstration project where algae are grown in vertical plastic bags. The algal cells contain lipids that can be used for food oil or fuel oil. [http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html]

“Governors drink the Kool-Aid". State governors embrace the range of 'alternative fuels,' from nukes to clean coal to biofuels [http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/26/85426/0184]. Gristmill: A blogful of leafy green commentary.