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Simple Modification Reduces Fuel Consumption in Cars

News - 6 Jun 2011

A minor modification to your car could reduce fuel consumption by over seven per cent. The Deakin University invention uses waste heat to reduce friction by warming the engine oil. A prototype has...

AMI Brings Together International Panel to Discuss Profitability of Bioplastics

News - 1 Nov 2010

Biodegradable plastics are established in the marketplace as alternative materials. Compounding and processing technology is developing so that these relatively new polymers can be used in a wider...

Clay, Wool and Seaweed Used to make Environmentally Friendly Bricks

News - 5 Oct 2010

Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibres to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks...

Hybrid Cars for the City and Natural Gas Power for Longer Trips is the Best Environmental Solution

News - 14 Sep 2010

If you are looking for an environmentally friendly automobile, think about getting a hybrid car or one running on natural gas. In terms of CO2 emissions both perform significantly better than gasoline...

American Superconductor Buys Big Chunk of Innovative Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturer

News - 17 Aug 2010

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, today announced that it has acquired a 25 percent ownership position in Blade Dynamics Ltd., a designer and...

Swedish Biofuels Offer Measurable Environmental Benefits

News - 25 May 2010

For the first time, researchers have taken an overall look at Swedish biofuels and analysed what impact they have on the environment, both in relation to one another and to the fossil fuel...

Paperless Curriculum Reduces Waste

News - 27 Apr 2010

The term “going green” is the catch phrase of recent years. But unlike most catch phrases that spread like wildfire and eventually slow, the idea of “going green” has picked up...

Desire for Alternative Fuels Expected to Drive the Popularity of Natural Gas Poweered Vehicles

News - 15 Mar 2010

Growing interest in alternative fuels is expected to add more than fifty million natural gas vehicles (NGVs) on the world’s roads in the next ten years. Potentially capturing upward of 9% of the...

Sweden's Most Fuel Efficient Car Invited to Participate in Clean Equity Monaco 2010

News - 1 Mar 2010

The red student mini car Baldos II, produced by students at (LUT) Luleå University of Technology has been invited to participate in the Clean Equity Monaco 2010. A trade fair which is supported...

Innovative Methanol Production Plant being Scaled Up to Commercial Size

News - 28 Feb 2010

R3 Sciences announced today that they are building a commercial scale, skid mounted gas process system capable of producing up to 500,000 gallons per year of methanol. The R3 Sciences methanol...