by Justin Velella | May 20, 2012 | Electric Vehicles, Environment, Green Driving
In an earlier post I mentioned that electric vehicles alone are not the solution, but must be coupled with a new, clean-energy grid in order to maximize both efficiency and practicality. Fortunately, Shai Agassi, the CEO and founder of Better Place, a Palo Alto based...
by Justin Velella | Mar 29, 2012 | Environment, Green Driving
Gas prices are on the rise again. Today’s national average price for regular gasoline is $3.92/gallon. For American drivers, this is nothing but the same old story: gas prices rise and fall all the time, right? Sometimes, it spurs increased sales of plug in...
by Alexa Kocinski | Aug 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
If you’re searching for alternative ethanol energy, you needn’t look any further than your own backyard… or Tanzania. Biofuels from non-food sources – from agave cacti grown in the desert lands of Africa to algae cultivated in petri dishes in laboratories...
by Alexa Kocinski | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
The ongoing, meandering quest, à la Lord of the Rings, to find the best alternative energy to supplant the world’s finite supply of fossil fuel really brings the whack jobs with a lot of startup capital out of the woodwork. The new energy craze has a few companies...
by Alexa Kocinski | Jun 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Every time you use the bathroom, you could be flushing away a potentially great source of energy. At least, that’s what AMEC, a Canadian firm, believes. They are striving to capture human excrement and process it into gasoline and oil through a thermochemical process...
