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Greenlings: What realistic electric vehicle recharging options are there for apartment dwellers? {Autoblog Green}
Mar 18th 2010 9:47PM Why does anyone bother to talk about this? This is the essence of a problem that will fix itself.
California homebuilder offers to pre-wire homes for electric vehicle charging {Autoblog Green}
Mar 10th 2010 6:34PM Last I checked just about every home with the laundry in the garage already has a 220 plug.
Coskata's new Lighthouse cellulosic ethanol plant, in depth {Autoblog Green}
Oct 18th 2009 6:33PM The US actually used large amounts of methanol in motor fuels in the form of MTBE of course that did'nt go over too well.
However, I think it's worth noting the Exxon is quite happily listening it's methanol-to-gasoline technology http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/12/dkrw-selects-ex.html
Of course, making methanol from biomass is not as easy at it sounds. "Wood Alcohol" while easy to obtain in terms of technology has miserable yields. I heard a story of some German farmers during WWII that would use a ton of biomass to get a few gallons of methanol. Basically, you have to gasify the biomass to syngas to make methanol; Making Syngas from biomass has a lot more impurities that need to be dealt with as compared to natural gas. So making methanol from natural gas makes a lot more sense. So at that point, it makes more sense to just put natural gas in cars as compared to using methanol.
Plane Answers: Airlines see green in appearing green {Gadling}
Oct 17th 2009 12:24PM Kent:
Do the MPG numbers agree with what you experience (number of seats * miles flow / gallons burned)?
Plane Answers: Airlines see green in appearing green {Gadling}
Oct 15th 2009 9:58PM I think it's also worth noting that compared to driving, on a per seat basis airplanes go rather well.
Jetblue for example manages to get 71.46 MPG per seat. (www.burningjetfuel.com)
