Tag: alternative energy

Construction Equipment

JCB secures $13.2 million deal for gas-powered generators

JCB has made its first major entry into the gas-powered generator sector in England with a deal worth about $13.2 million. JCB will partner with alternative electricity generating company AGR Group to supply 34.5 megawatts of gas-powered generator sets across five sites in England. AGR specializes in low-carbon energy generation for communities and businesses. JCB […]

September 13, 2017

Equipment

How big data and the electric car reveal the future of heavy equipment emissions regulations

Recently I came across a map of the United States published by The Atlantic‘s CityLab site that showed where electric vehicles (EVs) were most and least beneficial in terms of reducing air pollution. This map and the thinking behind it is an example of how big data is changing how policy makers will govern many aspects of […]

July 9, 2015

Construction Equipment

POLL: Diesel? Hydrogen? Electricity? What will fuel future highways?

With road-legal self-driving trucks and an economically-feasible way to harness solar energy and go off the power grid being a part of our present and no longer possibilities of a far-off future, we got to thinking: what’s the fuel of the future going to be? Electricity sure seems to be making a pretty strong case with Tesla […]

May 8, 2015

Business

Westport: all of a sudden, everybody’s BFF

Westport, Westport Cummins, Caterpillar, Waichei, General Motors. Volvo, natural gas engines, HPDI, high pressure direct injection, construction equipment, on-highway trucking, mining, mining trucks

October 15, 2012

Technology

Methanol may be the best alternative fuel yet

Alternative fuels, methanol, ethanol,

June 13, 2012

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Porche experiments with hybrid flywheel

If the Prius and other hybrid electric cars leave you dissatisfied, know at least that Porche is tinkering with an electro-mechanical flywheel developed by the Williams Formula One team subidiary Williams Hybrid Power. I drove a Prius once, a rental. Couldn’t wait to get out of it. A Porche 911 sounds like a lot more […]

February 12, 2010

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$10K + one teen = electric car

If this teenager in Texas can build his own electric car, and a sharp looking one at that, Detroit ought to be able to.

January 11, 2010

Technology

Alternative energy firms doing well

Not everybody is getting hammered by the recession. According to this Wall Street Journal story companies that specialize in alternative energy are growing and attracting lots of capital and venture fund money. Key quote: “investments in clean technology companies totaled $8.4 billion, up 40 percent from last year.”  Biodiesel production soared from 28 million gallons in […]

January 11, 2010

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Pickens’ plan: run heavy trucks with natural gas

Regardless of what you think about oilman T. Boone Pickens, he’s spot on when he says we should run our heavy diesel trucks on compressed natural gas. The only drawback to such a plan is you need to build an infrastructure to do so, but that couldn’t be any more challenging than the infrastructure we’re soon […]

January 11, 2010

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Prospects look good for sustainable ethanol industry

The appointment of alternative energy insider Steven Koonin to the position of Undersecretary of of Science at the Department of Energy bodes well for the development of a viable ethanol industry. One of the more serious criticisms of the ethanol industry in the past was that it was corn-based, which greatly inflated the price of […]

January 11, 2010

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Micro-turbine powered car

This is far yet from production, but an intriguing idea nonetheless. The benefit of turbines is that they can run on a variety of fuels with no modification.

January 11, 2010

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The next bubble to burst

Government meddling in the housing market was clearly one of the reasons the housing market turned into a bubble and then burst these last few months. This article posits that government’s newest infatuation, meddling in alternative energy schemes, will create a bubble that will eventually burst in those industries as well. The moral of this story […]

January 11, 2010