Diesel or Hydrogen?
by Jack Peckham
San Diego-Futurists talk dreamily of a “hydrogen future” where the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels are replaced by “clean” hydrogen and fuel cells.
But practical reality tells a far different story today: Diesel/ distillate fuels (including jet fuel) do all the heavy lifting on this planet-for good reason.
That’s because distillates are cheap, abundant, [...]
BMW will lease its hydrogen cars
Eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials, BMW announced that it rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early this year.
Dubbed the Hydrogen 7, the specially equipped 7-Series executive cars emit only water vapor when running on hydrogen. That means zero emissions of pollutants and carbon dioxide, a gas [...]
MDI Cat’s Air Engines Unveiled
MDI has developed a high performance compressed air technology. When it is compared to traditional gasoline powered engines, MDI´s engine is far superior in terms of energy used and thermodynamics.
An overview of the air car
The technology that MDI vehicles use is not new, in fact it had been around for years. Compressed air technology allows [...]
Volvo puts its mind towards alternative energy
On climate, on energy security, time is not on our side.
Researchers at NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, say that the record heat of 2006 was, in large part, caused by us.
Researchers at NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, conclude in a article in Earth Observatory - “Greenland’s Ice Island Alarm” - [...]
