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AFOSR and NASA Launch First Test Rocket Fueled by Aluminum-Ice Propellant

Green Car Congress

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently launched the first test rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprising nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). It consists of an all-carbon-fiber, minimum-diameter high-power rocketry kit. Credit: Dr. Steven F.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Sonoma County Water Agency "Sparky" by Hymotion, May 2007, (Santa Rosa, CA), contact: sherwood@scwa.ca.gov Wisconsin Public Power Inc. Burbank Water and Power 2007 Prius by Energy CS, May 2007, (Burbank, CA). by Hymotion, September 2006 (Ajax, Ontario), contact dhillsmilligan@veridian.on.ca

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