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U.S. Air Force cancels plans for coal to liquid fuel project
For a military forces, a steady reliable supply of fuel is critical to success. Given that, the U.S. Air Force has been investigating the idea of putting a coal-to-liquid facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Coal is readily available in the continental U.S. and being able to economically produce synthetic liquid fuel would be highly beneficial to the military. The proposals that the Air Force looked at involved having a privately-funded and -operated fuel plant on the site. However, the investigators found that the proposals would ... Read more →
Detroit 2008: Toyota's Takimoto talks about all of Toyota's future eco plans Sebastian Blanco
During the hectic press days of the Detroit Auto Show, AutoblogGreen and a small number of other news outlets were invited to a corner of the Riverfront Ballroom at Cobo Hall. The reason for the ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata CEO Bill Roe on cellulosic ethanol partnership with GM Sebastian Blanco
In the latest AutoblogGreen podcast, we featured an interview with Coskata president and CEO Bill Roe. This is a transcription of that interview. For a way-too detailed look at the GM-Coskata ...
Many presidential candidates support coal-to-liquid fuel Sebastian Blanco
American news outlets are certainly full of updates from the voting in New Hampshire today, where the second first presidential primary in the 2008 U.S. election is taking place (UPDATE courtesy of J ...
Huckabee tells us God is green Sebastian Blanco
Apparently, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee hasn't met an energy source he doesn't like. According to a new article in Salon, Huckabee "praises just about every energy source you can ...
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New method to obtain cheap natural gas from coal 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
GreatPoint, a company made by three enterpreneurs from Boston (Andrew Perlman, Avi Goldberg and Aaron Mandell) has announced that they have created a cheap method to obtain natural gas from coal. Obtaining gas from coal (called syngas) is not the latest technology around: At the end of the 19th ...
Just how much of a difference could efficiency gains make on oil imports? A lot 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Sometimes you have to step away from the daily updates and take a peek at the larger "domestic and global fuels supply situation.' If you're the DOE Task Force on Strategic Unconventional Fuel that just released a three-volume report on exactly that matter, you'll discover that the "outlook is ...
More coal to liquid fuels research from Penn State 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Penn State University has really been on a green roll these last few days, getting three stories featured on our site. One had to do with a novel way to extract hydrogen from water using nanotechnology and sunlight and the second had to do with using coal and papermaking waste to make a liquid ...
Making biofuels from the papermaking industry's black liquor waste 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Sometimes, people just need to make the best with what they have got to work with. This is what paper mills are trying to do by burning the "black liquor" waste which is a leftover remnant of chemicals and the lignin. As part of the Kraft process (.pdf link), the leftovers are burned to create ...
The DOE, Conoco-Phillips and LSU work to increase ethanol's efficiency, want to make it from coal 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
The headlines for this story indicate that a team from LSU, Oak Ridge National Lab, Clemson, Conoco-Phillips and the Department of Energy are trying to make ethanol a more efficient fuel. I don't know that this is the case, as it seems that what they are trying to do is manufacture ethanol from the ...
GM provides update on Volt vehicle and battery development
First Drive: 2010 BMW X6 ActiveHybrid is technologically impressive... but to what end?
At Witz' End: Notes from "The Business of Plugging In"
Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context
Greenlings: How does weight affect a vehicle's efficiency?
Greenlings: What's the difference between kW and kWh?
Small piece of history: 1936 Mercedes 260D, the first successful diesel passenger car
Aptera Update: Backstory uglier than we knew?
Toyota starts discussions on who will get PHEV Priuses
Japan EV Club creams Tesla range record with Tokyo to Osaka run
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