Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

South Bay Bicycle Coalition members including Redondo Beach Councilman Steve Diels, with County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and County Department of Public Health Staff upon awarding of the grant. That's South Bay Bicycle Coalition Chairman, Todd "Elvis" Dipaola rocking the shades. Your Greenius got great news from downtown Los Angeles on Friday when my pal, Todd Diapola called me from Kenny Hahn Hall of Administration to report he and the other representatives of the South Bay Bic

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., “cold fusion”) to process an energy release from an electrolytic cell operating at low temperature and that could be competitive with a Li-ion battery or a fuel cell—at the 239 th national meeting of the American Chemical Society

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 23, 2010

Thomas Friedman (left) and Chris Paine (right). Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and noted New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman blazed through town recently to promote his new book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America.&#. Tom graciously sat still for our camera long enough to share some of his insights about the interrelated nature of our present economic and ecologic woes.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 22, 2010

Robert Llewellyn is a Brit with a keen interest in electric cars who is one of those leasing a Mitsubishi iMiev this year. He's got a great weekly video podcast, Gearless , chronicling his experiences. This week, Quick Charge. Using the same Japanese device I visited in Vacaville last week. He uses quaint British time-measurement terms. "A cuppa and bacon bun" is how long it takes to fill up.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 24, 2010

On Monday I wrote about how some of my friends on the Hermosa Beach City Council had ignored citizen requests that they stop using disposable Arrowhead plastic water bottles as their source of drinking water at City Council meetings. We had told them they were not only wasting money, water and resources – they were also setting a bad public example on television and on the web where their meetings are broadcast.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Fiat 500EV. Click to enlarge. Chrysler Group LLC plans to engineer and produce a battery electric vehicle using the Fiat 500 platform. Previewed earlier this year at the 2010 North American International Auto Show, the Fiat 500EV demonstrates the immediate benefits of the alliance between Chrysler Group and the Fiat Group as well as the speed at which the two companies can work together on advanced vehicle programs, according to Chrysler.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 25, 2010

New car prices are set to fall-that’s the prediction from leading car data providers, Glass’s. According to the firm, some car manufacturers will reduce their prices in a effort to increase sales and counteract a fall in registrations as the Scrappage Scheme ends this month. Particularly, prices for new cars maybe realigned to suit business [.]. Tags: Green credentials fall Glass guide new cars price scheme scrappage tax.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

Some of my friends on the Hermosa Beach City Council don’t believe that drinking water out of a new, disposable plastic water bottle at every Council meeting does any harm – so they crack open a new bottle of water at every meeting to quench their thirst. Despite being asked for months now to bring their own reuseable water bottles and to filter their drinking water from the tap, the Hermosa Beach City Council doesn’t believe the example they set every two weeks at their telev

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The first hydrogen plant for renewable energy storage in Greenland has been inaugurated. The plant is a test system which shall help provide suggestions for how hydrogen can be used for future renewable energy storage in the country. H2 Logic A/S from Denmark has developed and delivered the hydrogen plant which is owned and operated by the national energy company Nukissiorfiit.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 25, 2010

Where is the best place to buy the parts to build an AC electric motorcycle? and I do mean a motorcycle - a street cruiser type not a scooter. Hi, Rick.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2010

Just how large a role will ethanol play in fuelling vehicles over the next few years? Well, according to a production forecast released by the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), its influence is set to sky rocket. According to the report by the GRFA, which is an international federation representing more than 65 per cent of [.]. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news ethanol ethanol in vehicles ethanol production Global Renewable Fuels Alliance.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 25, 2010

Joe Galliani, the Creative Greenius at the 2009 Torrance Environmental Fair. That’s your friendly, neighborhood Creative Greenius volunteering his time for the South Bay Environmental Services Center at the 2009 Torrance Environmental Fair. I’ll be back again this year, at Madrona Marsh on Saturday, March 27 from 10am t0 3pm talking about ways to save energy, save water, save money and cut your greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. INTRODUCTION. Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 24, 2010

What does personal transportation look like in a new century, when more than 60 percent of the world's citizens live in cities and the number of vehicles on the globe could rise to 2 billion? Would future urbanites accept the idea of moving around in pod-shaped electric two-seaters with only two wheels? Especially if those pod-shaped vehicles.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 24, 2010

Is there any better way to encourage innovation than a contest? Offer a prize for inventing or improving something, whether there's a cash prize involved or not, and that most basic of human instincts — competitiveness — will kick in and take care of the rest. And if the intent is to motivate and inspire the next generation of scientists and green.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 25, 2010

As it marks its 25th birthday, BMW Forschung und Technik (Research and Technology) GmbH has premiered two projects that could both slash fuel consumption and emissions in the future. The first, is a prototype fuel cell hybrid vehicle (pictured below) that has been designed to offer emission-free mobility in city traffic. The second is an on-board [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, have established a research collaboration to develop an integrated fermentation, recovery and purification system for producing BioIsoprene from renewable raw materials for use in tires. Genencor intends to commercialize the technology within the next five years. Synthetic rubber is produced on a large scale worldwide to supplement natural rubber, the majority of which is used for tires.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2010

Much mystery surrounded the electric versions of the Fiat 500 that have appeared at auto shows over the last year. Now, Chrysler has cleared up a bit of the confusion: It will build an electric Fiat 500 for the U.S. market, with a powertrain developed by engineers at its Michigan headquarters, at a price that's "competitive with similar electric.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 26, 2010

Why produce plug-in EREVs such as the Chevy Volt when you believe that full electric vehicles are the wave of the future? This is a question that GM will have to tackle as even the company admits that battery only vehicles will dominate sales in the future. GM North America President Mark Reuss believes that battery electric vehicles will likely.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 24, 2010

“Bad boys, bad boys what ya gonna do – what ya gonna do when BMW’s diesel engines come for you?” Horrendous renditions of the Cops theme aside, US law enforcement will indeed be leaner and greener than ever after the BMW group received a major order from Carbon Motors Corporation to supply more than 240,000 diesel [.]. Tags: BMW Green cars Latest news BMW diesel engines BMW diesel engines in US police cars Carbon Motors Corporation US law enforcement US police cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

Cutting back on consumption of meat and dairy products will not have a major impact in combating global warming—despite repeated claims that link diets rich in animal products to production of greenhouse gases— according to a report by Dr. Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis, presented at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2010

A week before the New York Auto Show begins its media previews, Lexus has released more details on its CT 200h premium compact hybrid, which it says will go on sale in the U.S. in early 2011. Widespread reports (which we joined, unfortunately) had previously quoted a spokesman as saying Lexus had "no plans" to bring the CT model to the States. It.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 25, 2010

Daimler is a busy player in the electric vehicle category. From recent news that Smart has partnered with Renault-Nissan, a deal which could result in an updates Smart ED, to Daimler signing a joint venture with BYD to build EVs for the Chinese market, the company is active with electrics. The most recent announcement stemming from Daimler.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 23, 2010

One million plug-in vehicles on roads by 2020 – that was the conclusion of a study by a group of US and Canadian power grid operators who manage most of the continent’s bulk electric grid. In their study entitled ‘Assessment of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Integration with ISO/RTO Systems’ they looked at the effect that plug-in electric [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships. We were quite surprised to find that polycarbonate plastic biodegrades in the environment.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 26, 2010

Most carmakers call their environmentally friendly products "green." At Hyundai, the company uses a different primary color: "Blue." At least, that's the case with the 2010 Hyundai Elantra Blue, a new model that was added to the Elantra lineup this year. The Blue's green cred isn't that it's a hybrid or diesel, but rather, that it achieves an EPA.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 22, 2010

Hobbyist and auto manufacturers have different viewpoints on electric vehicles, or EVs. As an EV enthusiast, building a number of all-electric vehicles has been an incredible learning experience for me. Converted from gasoline to all electric, the cars were highway capable and had a top speed of 70-plus mph. They could be fast-charged in about.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 23, 2010

The Green Piece Column. Tuesday 23 March 2010. With rumours abound about the extra-marital activity of Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James it’s fair to say that just two weeks after the event this year’s Oscar ceremony is already a distant memory. However, for those with an eye on the automotive world, memories of the red carpet will [.]. Tags: The Green Piece Toyota ampera Camry Hybrid prius Vauxhall.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Researchers at Cellulose Sciences International ( CSI ) have developed a pretreatment technology of cellulosic biomass to reduce its recalcitrance (resistance to breakdown into sugars), enabling possible significant increases in rates of conversion of celluloses to sugar by cellulase enzymes, with an accompanying decrease in the required dosage of the enzymes.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2010

Many European countries use BMW sedans as patrol and pursuit cars. Now, BMW says it will sell more than 240,000 engines to U.S. police-car startup Carbon Motors for that company's cruiser. The big shock? They're diesel engines. Specifically, BMW's 3.0-liter twin-turbo straight-six clean diesel, as used in the 2010 BMW 335d and 2010 BMW X5.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 20, 2010

With the release date of the Chevy Volt drawing near, final testing is underway. The Volt is currently undergoing what is referred to in the business as Suspension durability testing. The testing is underway at GM's test track at the Milford Proving Grounds. Chevrolet VoltAge has posted a video of this testing which is conducted by GM employee.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2010

Chrysler has revealed it is to launch a new all-electric car into the US market based on the Fiat 500. Shown earlier this year at the 2010 North American International Auto Show, the Fiat 500EV prototype was the first electric car built through the US carmaker’s alliance with Fiat. The carmaker has announced that it [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

The Model 320 Hybrid. Click to enlarge. Among its other product introductions at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, Peterbilt announced the limited production availability of the Model 320 Hybrid Class 8 refuse truck, equipped with Eaton’s Hydraulic Launch Assist ( HLA ) technology ( earlier post ). The low-cab-forward Model 320 Hybrid is targeted for vocational stop-and-go applications such as refuse collection.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2010

The big green car news from Chrysler yesterday was its announcement that it would build an electric version of the Fiat 500 mini-car for the U.S. market. Win one, lose one, perhaps. The company also dropped a death notice: It has ended development of its Ram Two-Mode Hybrid pickup truck, scheduled for introduction this year as a 2011 model. No.

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