Obama Delivers $3.7 Trillion Budget to Congress
President Obama unveiled a $3.7 trillion budget Monday that includes funding for a $50 billion “infrastructure bank” aimed at triggering private investment for some projects, Bloomberg reported.
Canada Mandates Two Percent Biodiesel Blend for On-road Diesel, Heating Oil
Truckinginfo Staff Canada’s Environment Minister, Peter Kent — accompanied by federal Agriculture Minister, Gerry Ritz — announced on Thursday that all diesel fuel and home heating oil sold in Canada after July 1, 2011 will have to contain at least t…
CAT Scale iPhone app
The CAT Scale Company iPhone app allows drivers to locate the CAT Scale closest to their current location through the GPS on their phone. Drivers can also search for and get directions to CAT Scale locations in other areas. The app is available through iTunes and is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices.
For […]
Popeye Would Love Spinach-based Hydrogen
Cartoons seemed to have gotten it right again last week, when our sister site Cleantechnica posted news out of the Oak Ridge National Lab in Tenessee, which announced a new process that converts visible light into hydrogen fuel, courtesy of ordinary, p…
Statoil, UNIDO to collaborate on promoting sustainable energy access, industry in developing world
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Statoil have signed an agreement to work together to examine the feasibility of common projects to promote sustainable energy access and industry in developing countries.
The geographic…
Toyota too focused on hybrid cars not overall fuel economy?
EcoBoost a green perception threat to hybrid cars?
Still a CAFE leader
Just finished reading a summary of Shell Oil’s update to its 2008 Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050 report that focuses on how the recession has changed the company’s view of the next …
Toyota researchers develop Li–O2/CO2 battery with very high discharge capacity
Discharge curves of the Li–O2/CO2 batteries with various ratio
of CO2 in O2/CO2 mixed gas at 25 °C (current density: 0.2 mA cm-2). Inset shows CO2 ratio dependence on relative capacities as compared with the Li–O2 battery (CO2 0%). Credit: …
Successful Allegiant Air could invest in Loveland airport
Soaring out of one of the most successful years in its history, Allegiant Air – the low-cost carrier that serves Northern Colorado – is poised for more growth in 2011.
Study finds massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in GOM
A new, University of Georgia-led study—the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge—found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted int…
Shell updates energy scenarios; world entering an era of volatile transitions
Shell’s Zone of Uncertainty: extraordinary misery or opportunity. Source: Shell. Click to enlarge.
Shell has published an update to its 2008 Shell Energy Scenarios to 2050. (Earlier post.) Those energy scenarios—Scramble and Blueprints—r…