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U.S. Air Force Considers Wind Power for Remote Combat Training

Adele Hall — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:20:51 +0000

The US Air Force is currently rethinking its fuel consumption. The Air Force has monitoring stations in remote parts of Alaska where they are monitoring wind turbines. For these monitoring stations they perform air fuel drops during September and March. March can be particularly hazardous for pilots due to extreme weather conditions. To decrease the […]

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MIT Study: Pavement Deflections Account for Increased Fuel Consumption by 3%

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:06:16 +0000

Civil engineers at MIT could have a powerful word in the realm of fuel saving. They recently found out by computer simulations that huge amounts of CO2 and fuel could be saved in a year if the road pavements would be stiffer. As much as 3 percent could save 237 million barrels of crude per […]

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How Self-Driving Cars Can Save Fuel and Reduce Accidents

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:28:32 +0000

Self-driving cars are no longer a dream, at least for car manufacturers, who are competing against each other to get out on the market with the best driving assistance software that can ultimately mean safety and reduced fuel consumption. A recent MIT Technology Review article enumerates the reasons why one should choose a car equipped […]

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Ford Estimating 25% of Their Fleet to be Electric or Hybrid by 2020

Cristi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:52:42 +0000

Ford recently disclosed their long term plan coming to align with governmental laws related with fuel efficiency: by 2020, at least 25% of Ford's new cars will be either electric or hybrid vehicles. In North America, 7 of 10 vehicles will be gasoline-electric hybrids, such as the current Fusion hybrid version.

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Trains Polluting More Than Airplanes in the U.S.?

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:28:47 +0000

A recent study reveals shocking figures telling that, basically, traveling by train pollutes the environment more than traveling by airplane. How can that be?

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A New "Open Rotor" Jet Engine That Could Reduce Fuel Consumption

Mike Sandru — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:04:40 +0000

NASA and GE Aviation are testing a new “open rotor” jet engine with a different design that puts the fan blades on the outside of the engine. The jet fuel consumption will be reduced by more than 30 percent. In the 80s, NASA and GE designed the engine named GE36, and developed it into a […]

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New Electric Field Device Reduces Car Fuel Consumption by 20%

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:40:59 +0000

Professor Rongija Tao, from Temple University, invented a device that, applied to the vehicle's fuel line, near the injectors, creates an electric field that reduces the fuel's viscosity, so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine, leading to better combustion and increased fuel efficiency as much as 20%.

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10+1 Tips to Driving a Diesel Car Economically

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:39:52 +0000

1. First of all, remove the aggressive tendency from your driving habits. I admit I myself like to be aggressive sometimes, it gives me chills, diesel cars have a lot of torque at low rpm, but from what I experienced that go fast-full stop-go-fast attitude costs me about 2 liters more per hundred kilometers. Sometimes […]

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