Ultracapacitors are my bet for the way to replace gasoline fueled vehicles. Hydrogen is just not dense enough even in hydrides and there is no infrastructure for it. Batteries are too heavy, too short lived, have complex temperature and charging requirements to maximize life, take too long to charge and are not improving quickly enough. Synfuels are possible but require a lot of new plants and the...

He really is Jimmy Carter on steroids, you know.Just as Carter undercut our ally the Shah in a similar fashion, Prez Zero is looking to destabilize Egypt during a time of unrest - and it will end with the same result, an Islamist regime, only this time run by the Muslim Brotherhood instead of Khomeni and the Ayatollahs. Obama is simply throwing gasoline on an already burning fire. That's a st...

It's a bold call, maybe even outlandish &# the end of new gasoline cars by 2020. But if you listen to Shai Agassi, founder and chief executive of Better Place, an Israeli company providing infrastructure for electric cars, you might want to believe it. 

It's a bold call, maybe even outlandish &# the end of new gasoline cars by 2020. But if you listen to Shai Agassi, founder and chief executive of Better Place, an Israeli company providing infrastructure for electric cars, you might want to believe it. 

In an obvious response to the unilateral sanctions passed by the US Congress, French energy company TOTAL says it has stopped all gasoline sales to Iran. Those sanctions, which are much tougher than the ones imposed by the UN have yet to be signed by President Obama, by the way. I suppose he's been busy - or seeking ways to water them down.

The Ticking Time Bomb Know As The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program Continues To Move Forward, While Irrelevant Sanctions Are Discussed With Our Allies, China and Russia, Who Do Not Even Want To Go So Far As Irrelevant! The Obama administration continues to befuddle regular citizens of the United States over it's seeming lack of any interest in confronting the looming threat of an Iranian nucle...

I find this horribly convincing: Chang argues that inconsistencies in Chinese official statistics - like the surging numbers for car sales but flat statistics for gasoline consumption - indicate that the Chinese are simply cooking their books. He speculates that Chinese state-run companies are buying fleets of cars and simply storing them in giant parking lots in order to generate apparent growth....

This is an interesting 'green' initiative funded by the Navy. According to New Scientist, this process "uses a variant of a chemical reaction called the Fischer-Tropsch process, which is used commercially to produce a gasoline-like hydrocarbon fuel from syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen often derived from coal." Robert Dorner, a Naval Research Laboratory chemist in Washin...

Conspiracy theories about the economic crisis mushroomed... Meanwhile, the government responded to the emergency by issuing more paper money to meet the demand, which had the effect of pouring gasoline on a bonfire. "Speculators and profiteers thrived," Ian Kershaw writes. Anyone with access to foreign currencies - especially American dollars - could live like Croesus. A rumour was taken...

From the Google Blog: At our Mountain View headquarters, we have some fields that we need to mow occasionally to clear weeds and brush to reduce fire hazard. This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we've rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we're not "kidding"). A herder bring...